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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.581 ! ian 19: <h2>April, 2008</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21:
! 22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 23: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/19700/OpenBSD_4.3_Released">
! 24: OpenBSD 4.3 Released</a>, OSNews, April 30, 2008
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: OSNews is among the first to mention the newest release:
! 27: "Theo de Raadt has lifted the veil off OpenBSD 4.3. <i>We are pleased
! 28: to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.3. This is our 23nd
! 29: release on CD-ROM (and 24rd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's
! 30: record of more than ten years with only two remote holes in the
! 31: default install.</i> Boasting as always, but when it's justified,
! 32: arrogance is a virtue."
! 33: <p>
! 34:
! 35: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 36: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2008/04/29/puffy-and-the-crytonauts-whats-new-in-openbsd-43.html">
! 37: Puffy and the Cryptonauts: What's New in OpenBSD 4.3</a>, onLamp, April 29, 2008
! 38: </strong></font><br>
! 39: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD developers
! 40: about the changes in the 4.3 release, providing a more comprehensive overview
! 41: than others.
! 42: Topics range across
! 43: networking (including new and improved drivers, and our own SNMP implementation),
! 44: storage (faster flash, bigger disk support),
! 45: platforms (Sparc64 SMP, audio drivers),
! 46: kernel improvements, malloc support, read/write cleanups, and much more.
! 47: <p>
! 48:
! 49: </ul>
! 50:
1.573 ian 51: <h2>November, 2007</h2>
52: <ul>
53: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.574 ian 54: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/87">
55: Using OpenBSD 4.2</a>, Software In Review, November 5, 2007
56: </strong></font><br>
57: Jem Matzem advocates using OpenBSD and shows readers how to get
58: started and some hints on using the system after it's installed,
59: including setting up ports/packages to use third-party software.
60: Under the "For More Information" category, he acknowledges that
61: "OpenBSD has the most thorough, easy to follow native documentation
62: of any Unix-like operating system..."
63: <p>
64:
65: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
66: <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/a_few_cheers_fo.html">
67: A Few Cheers For OpenBSD</a>, Information Week, November 2, 2007
68: </strong></font><br>
69: "With all of the hollering about Linux..., there's another open-source
70: operating system that just celebrated getting a new 4.2 release out
71: the door. It's one that hasn't been quite as widely-celebrated as
72: Linux but is still deeply important in its own way: OpenBSD"
73: Talks about how BSD is real UNIX, and what that means, and our
74: security policy "secure by default".
75: Ends with a reminder that Linux is
76: "not the only open-source, Unix-like game in town."
77: <p>
78:
79: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.573 ian 80: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/7155">
81: Puffy's Marathon: What's New in OpenBSD 4.2</a>, onLamp, Nov 1, 2007
82: </strong></font><br>
83: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed almost two dozen OpenBSD developers
84: and combined their comments into this interview. Opens with:
85: "...this release comes with some amazing performance improvements: basic
86: benchmarks showed PF being twice as fast, a rewrite of the TLB
87: shootdown code for i386 and amd64 cut the time to do a full package
88: build by 20 percent (mostly because all the forks in configure
89: scripts have become much cheaper), and the improved frequency scaling
90: on MP systems can help save nearly 20 percent of battery power.
91: <p>
92: "And then the new features: FFS2, support for the Advanced Host
93: Controller Interface, IP balancing in CARP, layer 7 manipulation
94: with hoststated, Xenocara, and more!"
95: <p>
96: And goes on to discuss each of these and more with the good folk
97: who make it happen.
98: <p>
99:
100: </ul>
101:
1.572 ian 102: <h2>July, 2007</h2>
103: <ul>
104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
105: <a href="http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/797/openbsd-encrypted-nas-howto">
1.578 ian 106: OpenBSD Encrypted NAS How-To</a>, geektechnique.org, July 15, 2007
1.572 ian 107: </strong></font><br>
108: Mark Hoekstra gives a detailed step-by-step description of how to
109: build an encrypted
110: network storage box using off-the-shelf hardware and OpenBSD software.
111: <br>
112: Also reported in
113: <a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/07/16/002203.shtml">SlashDot
114: </a> and
115: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/news.php?id=14877">net-security</a>.
116: <p>
117:
118: </ul>
119:
1.569 ian 120: <h2>May, 2007</h2>
121: <ul>
122:
123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.570 simon 124: [GERMAN]
125: OpenBSD 4.1 bietet Lastverteilung auf Layer 7,
126: iX magazine, May 18, 2007
127: </strong></font><br>
128: The German IT magazine iX reviews the new hoststated(8) Host Status Daemon that
129: comes with OpenBSD 4.1. The article describes various configurations including
130: SSL acceleration and gives a good insight into what hoststated(8) can do for the
131: reader.
132: <p>
133:
134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.569 ian 135: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html">
136: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again</a>, ONLamp, May 5, 2007
137: </strong></font><br>
138: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a number of developers about the major
139: changes in 4.1: Mark Kettenis on UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC T1;
140: Otto Moerbeek on the landisk port and fsck_ffs;
141: Artur Grabowski on rthreads and AMD64 timekeeping;
142: Kurt Miller on pthreads and, with Robert Nagy, on OpenOffice;
143: Marc Espie on the changes "under the hood" in
144: the package tools and on the new pkg_config;
145: Matthieu Herrb on our new X11 build system xenocara,
1.575 tobias 146: Henning Brauer on syslogd, hoststated and RSTP;
1.569 ian 147: Henning and Claudio Jeker on a variety of topics in routing and PF;
148: Bob Beck on spam fighting;
149: and Jonathan Gray on WEP and on why authpf is better than WPA/WPA2.
150: Quite readable overview of some of the main issues in this release.
151: <br/>
152: Linked to from
153: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17851/OpenBSD-4.1-Puffy-Strikes-Again/">OSNews</a>.
154: Mentions of the release also appeared in
155: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1483">Tectonic</a>,
156: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/07/05/02/1320248.shtml">Newsforge</a>
157: and
158: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/07/05/01/2231229.shtml">SlashDot</a>
159: (the latter two include pointers to official release announcements).
160: <p>
161:
162: </ul>
163:
1.565 ian 164: <h2>April, 2007</h2>
165: <ul>
166:
167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
168: <a href="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1522252">
169: Reducing spam with OpenBSD and spamd</a>, Linux.com, April 11, 2007
170: </strong></font><br>
171: This is the first installment of a multi-part article on using OpenBSD's
172: anti-spam tools. This part contains a general overview of spamd, greylisting
173: and tarpitting. Later installments will cover the how-to details.
174: <p>
175:
176:
177: </ul>
178:
1.560 ian 179: <h2>March, 2007</h2>
180: <ul>
181:
182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.564 ian 183: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/bsdtalk105-intro-to-pf-with-jason-dixon.html">
184: Introduction to PF with Jason Dixon</a>, BSDTalk 105, March 26, 2007
185: </strong></font><br>
186: Jason provides a nice general overview of OpenBSD's Packet Filter PF,
187: emphasizing the "why" rather than the "how" of using PF.
188: Goes over pf's history, initial setup, stateful filtering,
189: normalization with "scrub", use of synproxy, authpf,
190: CARP and pfsync, GUI configurations vs config files, the pfsense project,
1.576 martynas 191: logging, transparent bridges, AltQ queuing, macros, lists and tables,
1.579 ian 192: and the tie-in to spamd.
1.564 ian 193: <p>
194:
195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.560 ian 196: <a href="http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=30120&hilite=">
197: Welsh Government Agency demonstrates Open Source best practice</a>,
198: SourceWire, March 8, 2007
199: </strong></font><br>
1.562 ian 200: The Countryside Council for Wales, the UK Government's regional wildlife
201: conservation authority for Wales, has hired UK Open Source service provider Sirius
1.561 saad 202: Corporation to extend OpenBSD's interoperability with the proprietary
203: Cisco IOS software; part of the agreement calls for Sirius to contribute
204: its source changes back to the OpenBSD project.
1.560 ian 205: <p>
206:
207: </ul>
1.558 ian 208:
1.556 matthieu 209: <h2>February, 2007</h2>
210: <ul>
211:
212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.558 ian 213: <a href="http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/is_symantecs_vista_security_assessment_credible.html">
214: Is Symantec's Vista Security Assessment Credible?</a>, Microsoft Watch, February 28, 2007
215: </strong></font><br>
216: This paper is nominally about the relationship between Symantec and Microsoft,
217: talking about a white paper released by the former.
218: But it's quite revealing about Microsoft itself.
219: "Even Microsoft... now acknowledges that UAC (User Account Control) -
220: Vista's most [high-]profile security feature - is vulnerable to subversion,
221: particularly through social-engineering tactics."
222: And while the Symantec report says some good things about Vista security,
223: "its criticisms are brutal - for their clarity and foreboding:
224: <blockquote>
225: "Many of the technologies that Microsoft has employed to bolster
226: the security of Windows Vista are not new. In fact, most are
227: derived from the groundwork originally laid by open-source
228: operating systems such as Linux and OpenBSD, the PaX and
229: Stackguard projects, as well as numerous academic publications....
230: The majority of these technologies first appeared in Windows
231: XP SP2 [Service Pack 2]. Windows XP SP2, at the time of its
232: release, was also billed as the most secure version of Windows."
233: </blockquote>
234: So remember, folks, if it's about security, you may well have heard it
235: here first, long before Microsoft "invented" it.
236: <p>
237:
238:
239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.557 reyk 240: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85495">
241: OpenBSD und Linux: Kritik an Stillhalteabkommen für Treiberentwicklung</a>, heise online, February 2, 2007
242: </strong></font><br>
243:
244: Short article about OpenBSD's clear statement against device driver
245: development under non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
246: It attempts to summarize the reaction of the OpenBSD community against the
247: <a href="http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html">"Free Linux Driver Development"</a>
248: under NDA offered by the linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman which previously raised some
249: discussion.
250: Code written under NDA will make it difficult to improve it in the future
251: because somebody signed an agreement to keep the required hardware
252: documentation secret. For the OpenBSD project
253: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html">NDAs are never acceptable</a>.
254: <p>
255:
256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.556 matthieu 257: [FRENCH]
258: <a href="http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?produit=462">GNU/Linux
259: Magazine France</a> special issue number 29
260: </strong></font>
261: is dedicated to BSD systems. It features several articles about
262: OpenBSD: a pf tutorial, an article on IPSec and two articles on
263: high-availability with pf and CARP and with dynamic routing protocols
264: using OpenOSPFd and OpenBGPd.
265: <p>
266:
267: </ul>
268:
1.558 ian 269: <h2>January, 2007</h2>
270: <ul>
271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
272: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html">
273: Greylisting with PF</a>, O'Reilly onLAMP, January 18, 2007
274: </strong></font><br>
275: This onLAMP article by Dan Langille leads you through the process of
1.559 ian 276: setting up greylisting using OpenBSD's pf and spamd, which has now been ported
1.558 ian 277: to most other BSD systems. The article is
278: quite detailed, but readers should ignore the FreeBSD-specific stuff
279: like kldload (OpenBSD uses modload, but, OpenBSD always has pf built-in
280: so you don't need this). Parts of the article are based on Bob Beck's
281: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/speakers#Beck">spamd talk at NYCBSDCon</a>.
282: <p>
283:
284: </ul>
285:
1.550 mbalmer 286: <h2>December, 2006</h2>
287: <ul>
288:
289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.554 reyk 290: [GERMAN]
291: <a href="http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=15206">
292: 23C3: Interview mit Henning und Reyk von OpenBSD</a>,
293: Radio Unerhört Marbug, December 29, 2006
294: </strong></font><br>
295: Interview with Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter about OpenBSD and
296: the latest changes since 4.0 during the 23rd Chaos Communications
297: Congress in Berlin.
298: <p>
299:
300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.552 ian 301: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/01OPsecadvise_1.html">
1.553 ian 302: New Year's Resolution No. 1: Get OpenBSD</a>,
1.552 ian 303: InfoWorld, December 29, 2006
304: </strong></font><br>
305: InfoWorld's Security Advisor columnist Roger A. Grimes says:
306: "Kick off 2007 with a new, more secure operating system."
307: Citing OpenBSD's code-auditing security process and its
308: excellent security record, Grimes advises readers to give the system a try.
309: Despite repeating some old canards about the "unfriendly" install, he
310: notes favorably that
311: "OpenBSD is shipped secure-by-default, with all non-essential services disabled.
312: You won't find NFS, mountd, or Apache [httpd] enabled by default.
313: The /bin and /sbin folders will be emptier than other Linux or BSD distros.
314: Install OpenBSD and you can be assured that it doesn't default to an insecure state."
315: <p>
316:
317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.551 xsa 318: [GERMAN]
1.550 mbalmer 319: <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2007/01/074/">
320: OpenBSD 4.0 - Kanadische Eröffnung</a>
321: iX magazine, December 14, 2006
322: </strong></font><br>
1.570 simon 323: The German IT magazine iX reviews the 4.0 release of OpenBSD and also mentions
1.550 mbalmer 324: why we don't support blobs and why this is beneficial to our users.
325: The article gives OpenBSD a very good rating for being strictly free software,
326: its swift installation, the support for upgrades, and the large number of
327: platforms and architectures it runs on.
328: <p>
329:
330: </ul>
331:
1.546 ian 332: <h2>November, 2006</h2>
333: <ul>
334:
1.549 ian 335: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
336: <a href='http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061110204834'>
337: Official support for OpenBSD in Parallels Workstation</a>
338: undeadly.org, November 10, 2006
339: </strong></font><br>
340: OpenBSD is now supported by Parallels, a commercial OS
341: virtualization product for Mac OS X, Linux or MS-Windows.
342: In addition to allowing users to run both OpenBSD and one of those other
343: systems concurrently, the announcement means that developers with Intel Mac
344: hardware can run multiple test systems; the Undeadly Editor adds:
345: "I've had up to six OpenBSD guest systems operating simultaneously,
346: versions 3.8 through 4.0 (and -current)."
347: This also reinforces the increasing commercial acceptance of our favorite OS.
348: <p>
349:
350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
351: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/bsdtalk082-openbsd-developer-jason.html">
352: Interview with Jason Wright</a>, BSDTalk 82, November 8, 2006
353: </strong></font><br>
354: Jason talks about the OpenBSD development process (particularly for device drivers
355: and getting hardware documentation from vendors), Sun SPARC hardware (particularly
356: the Ultra III), ham radio (APRS) with OpenBSD, and more.
357: <p>
358:
359: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
360: <a href='http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132572.html'>
361: OpenBSD turns 4.0</a>
362: CNET News.com, November 3, 2006
363: </strong></font><br>
364: Stephen Shankland talks about the UltraSPARC III code in 4.0, and notes that
365: OpenBSD has chosen to stay with stable GCC versions rather than moving to
366: the latest and most bloated GCC versions like Linux did.
367: Quotes Theo as saying: OpenBSD doesn't aim for particular niches,
368: but it's popular in network applications... "The biggest
369: users of OpenBSD these days are people who need our fancy networking
370: features..."
371: <p>
372:
1.546 ian 373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
374: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/55/">
375: OpenBSD 4.0 Review</a>, Software In Review, November 1, 2006
376: </strong></font><br>
377: "In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed
378: back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are
379: almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or
380: months, it's nice to know that at least one operating system releases
381: on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems.
382: OpenBSD 4.0 was released on November 1 with its usual mix of new
383: hardware support and enhanced operating system features."
384: So opens Jem Matzam's review of the new 4.0 release.
385: Jem gives a brief overview of the project, discusses
386: several of the most important new features, evaluates
387: his installation and use of the system on a desktop and a notebook.
1.548 saad 388: He also offers a few recommendations for future developments to make
1.546 ian 389: the project even better.
390: There's even a link to the Wikipedia article on
391: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa">
392: Humppa</a>, for those who may have heard this term but not
393: the music behind it.
394: <p>
395:
1.547 ian 396: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
397: <a href='http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1243'>
398: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today</a>
399: Tectonic, November 1, 2006
400: </strong></font><br>
401: "With his characteristic no-frills approach OpenBSD team leader
402: Theo de Raadt this morning announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0."
403: This article lists the highlights of the 4.0 release and
404: tells readers where to order CD's or download the release.
405: Quotes Theo: ""We are pleased to announce the official release of
406: OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-Rom (and 21st via FTP).
407: We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single
408: remote hole in the default install,"
409: <p>
410:
411: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
412: <a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8123.html'>
413: OpenBSD 4.0 released</a>
414: Ars Technica, November 1, 2006
415: </strong></font><br>
416: A short note about the 4.0 release; refers to the O'ReillyNet article below.
417: <p>
418:
1.546 ian 419: </ul>
420:
1.539 ian 421: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
422: <ul>
1.540 ian 423:
424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.546 ian 425: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6769">
426: OpenBSD 4.0: Pufferix's Adventures</a>, O'Reilly Network, October 26, 2006
427: </strong></font><br>
428: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a dozen and a half developers and compiled
429: the results into this report, all while listening to the obligatory Humppa.
1.548 saad 430: Topics include the new blob-free wireless drivers, pf and pf/dhcp interaction,
1.546 ian 431: CARP demotion, ipsecctl replacing ipsecadm, hardware support for disk/bioctl,
432: USB serial, new installation customization features, ports/packages, RCS, X,
433: CPU support for Sparc/64, AMD/Intel "speed step" techniques, and more.
434: <p>
435:
436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 mbalmer 437: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
438: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
439: </strong></font><br>
440: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
441: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
442: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
443: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
444: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
445: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
446: for his many customers.
447: <p>
448:
449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.544 ian 450: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/olpc-under-fire-for-proprietary-components/">
451: OLPC under fire for proprietary components</a>, Engadget, October 11, 2006
452: </strong></font><br>
453: Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy
454: from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists.
455: Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments:
456: "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children
457: need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented
458: hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to
459: convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about
460: the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you
461: also do."
462: The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside
463: seats already."
464: <p>
465:
466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
467: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/">
468: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row</a>,
469: The Jem Report, October 9, 2006
470: </strong></font><br>
471: Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with
472: Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt.
473: Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in
474: getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware
475: so that users can use hardware they have paid for.
476: Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of
477: the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection,
478: I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts."
479: And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all:
480: "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open;
481: they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd
482: code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end.
483: Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that
484: no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..."
485: <p>
486:
487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.541 ian 488: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
489: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
490: </strong></font><br>
491: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
492: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
493: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
494: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
495: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
496: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
497: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 498: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 499: <p>
500:
501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 502: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
503: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
504: </strong></font><br>
505: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
506: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
507: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
508: <br />
509: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
510: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
511: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
512: overflows and vulnerabilities."
513: <br />
514: And, Grimes generalizes,
515: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
516: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
517: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
518: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
519: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
520: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
521: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
522: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
523: happened."
524: Worth reading!
525: <p>
526:
1.539 ian 527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
528: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
529: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
530: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
531: </strong></font><br>
532: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
533: redistributable firmware from Intel.
534: <p>
535:
536: </ul>
537:
1.536 grunk 538: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
539: <ul>
540:
541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 542: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
543: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
544: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
545: </strong></font><br>
546: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
547: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
548: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
549: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
550: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
551: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
552: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
553: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
554: for ages over these chipsets.
555: Quotes Theo as saying:
556: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
557: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
558: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
559: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
560: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
561: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
562: <p>
563:
564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
565: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
566: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
567: </strong></font><br>
568: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
569: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
570: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
571: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
572: <p>
573:
574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 575: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
576: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
577: </strong></font><br>
578: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
579: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
580: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
581: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
582: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
583: <p>
584:
1.537 ian 585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
586: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
587: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
588: </strong></font><br>
589: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
590: (the official release date is November 1).
591: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
592: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
593: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
594: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
595: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 596: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 597: <p>
598:
1.536 grunk 599: </ul>
600:
1.534 ian 601: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
602: <ul>
603:
604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 605: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
606: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
607: </strong></font><br>
608: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
609: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
610: as a guest operating system under
611: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
612: or "virtualization" system.
613: <p>
614:
615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 616: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
617: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
618: </strong></font><br>
619: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
620: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
621: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
622: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
623: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
624: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
625: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
626: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
627: <p>
628:
629: </ul>
630:
1.531 ian 631: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
632: <ul>
633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
634: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
635: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
636: </strong></font><br>
637: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
638: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
639: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
640: The article quotes Theo as saying
641: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
642: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
643: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
644: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
645: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
646: and describes the funding issues as well.
647: <p>
648:
649: </ul>
650:
1.525 ian 651: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
652: <ul>
653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 654: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 655: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
656: </strong></font><br>
657: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
658: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
659: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
660: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
661: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
662: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
663: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
664: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
665: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
666: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
667: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
668: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
669: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
670: <p>
671:
672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 673: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 674: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
675: </strong></font><br>
676: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
677: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
678: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
679: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
680: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
681: <p>
682:
1.526 ian 683: </ul>
1.525 ian 684:
1.514 ian 685: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
686: <ul>
1.524 ian 687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
688: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
689: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
690: </strong></font><br>
691: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
692: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
693: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
694: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
695: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
696: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
697: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
698: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
699: to make them useful.
700: <p>
1.518 ian 701:
702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 703: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 704: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
705: and
706: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 707: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 708: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 709: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 710: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 711: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
712: their plans for the week.
713: <p>
714:
715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 716: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
717: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
718: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
719: </strong></font><br>
720: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
721: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
722: <p>
723:
724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 725: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
726: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
727: </strong></font><br>
728: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
729: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
730: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
731: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 732: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 733: (introduced with 3.9).
734: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
735: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
736: <p>
737:
738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 739: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
740: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
741: </strong></font><br>
742: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
743: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
744: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
745: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
746: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
747: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
748: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
749: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
750: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
751: <p>
752:
753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
754: [GERMAN]
755: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
756: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
757: </strong></font><br>
758: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
1.580 tobias 759: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peereboom's
1.535 steven 760: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 761: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
762: is connected to OpenBSD.
763: <p>
764:
1.514 ian 765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
766: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
767: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
768: </strong></font><br>
769: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
770: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
771: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 772: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 773: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 774: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 775: running this project) is so important to Theo,
776: and even why he does mountain biking!
777: <p>
778:
779: </ul>
780:
1.503 ian 781: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
782: <ul>
783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 784: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
785: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
786: </strong></font><br>
787: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
788: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
789: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
790: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
791: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
792: <blockquote>
793: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
794: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
795: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
796: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
797: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
798: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
799: </blockquote>
800: This is just plain cool."
801: <p>
802:
803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 804: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
805: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
806: </strong></font><br>
807: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
808: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
809: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 810: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 811: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
812: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
813: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
814: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
815: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
816: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 817: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 818: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
819: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
820: <p>
821:
822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 823: [GERMAN]
824: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
825: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
826: </strong></font><br>
827: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
828: are and why they are bad.
829: <p>
830:
831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 832: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
833: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
834: </strong></font><br>
835: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
836: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
837: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
838: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
839: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
840: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
841: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
842: pages."
843: <p>
844:
845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 846: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
847: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
848: </strong></font><br>
849: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
850: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
851: and continues:
852: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
853: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
854: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
855: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
856: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
857: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
858: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
859: and more. Final thought:
860: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
861: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
862: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
863: true for business environments."
864: <p>
865:
866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 867: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 868: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 869: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 870: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
871: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
872: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 873: for funding.
1.509 djm 874: <p>
875:
876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 877: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
878: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
879: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
880: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
881: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
882: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
883: <p>
884:
885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 886: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
887: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
888: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
889: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
890: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
891: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
892: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
893: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
894: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
895: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
896: <br/>
1.529 ian 897: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 898: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 899: hostsearch.com</a> and
900: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
901: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 902: <p>
903:
904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 905: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
906: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
907: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
908: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 909: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 910: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 911: is punctuated with examples.
912: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 913: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
914: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 915: and
1.535 steven 916: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 917: <p>
918:
919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 920: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
921: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
922: </strong></font><br>
923: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
924: further OpenSSH development.
925: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
926: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
927: project's funding needs for all time.
928: <p>
1.504 bernd 929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
930: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
931: April 3, 2006
932: </strong></font><br>
933: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
934: this could compromise future hackathons.
935: <p>
1.503 ian 936:
937: </ul>
938:
1.487 ian 939: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
940: <ul>
1.495 ian 941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 942: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 943: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 944: </strong></font><br>
945: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
946: on topics including "Puffy",
947: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
948: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
949: what's new in 3.9,
950: and of course project expenses.
951: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
952: <!--
953: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
954: -->
955: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
956: <p>
957:
958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 959: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
960: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
961: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 962: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
963: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 964: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
965: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
966: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
967: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
968: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
969: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
970: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
971: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
972: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
973: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
974: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
975: but Matzan does - is that
976: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
977: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
978: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
979: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
980: <br/>
981: <p>
982:
983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
984: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
985: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
986: </strong></font><br>
987: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
988: "blob" drivers, and more.
989: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
990: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
991: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
992: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
993: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
994: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
995: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
996: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
997: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
998: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
999: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
1000: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
1001: <p>
1002:
1003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 1004: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
1005: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
1006: </strong></font><br>
1007: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
1008: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
1009: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
1010: in general temperature and environmental issues.
1011: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
1012: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
1013: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
1014: other major operating systems." ...
1015: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
1016: machines running in
1017: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
1018: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
1019: <p>
1020:
1021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1022: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
1023: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
1024: </strong></font><br>
1025: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
1026: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
1027: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
1028: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
1029: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
1030: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
1031: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
1032: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
1033: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
1034: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
1035: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
1036: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
1037: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
1038: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
1039: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
1040: <p>
1041:
1.487 ian 1042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 1043: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
1044: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
1045: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 1046: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 1047: financial situation.
1048: <p>
1049:
1050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 1051: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
1052: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
1053: </strong></font><br>
1054: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
1055: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
1056: produce our favorite operating system.
1057: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
1058: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
1059: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
1060: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
1061: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 1062: <br/>
1063: Also online at
1064: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
1065: <p>
1066:
1067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1068: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
1069: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
1070: </strong></font><br>
1071: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
1072: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
1073: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
1074: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
1075: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
1076: sustain indefinitely."
1077: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
1078: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
1079: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
1080: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
1081: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 1082: <p>
1083:
1084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 1085: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
1086: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
1087: </strong></font><br>
1088: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
1089: with a reminder that
1090: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
1091: used nowadays almost everywhere."
1092: Ends with this quote from Marco:
1093: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
1094: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
1095: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
1096: <p>
1097:
1098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 1099: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 1100: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
1101: </strong></font><br>
1102: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
1103: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
1104: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
1105: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
1106: a few of them each year.
1107: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
1108: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
1109: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
1110: to the OpenBSD project.
1111: It's time for them to do so.
1112: <p>
1113:
1114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 1115: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
1116: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
1117: </strong></font><br>
1118: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
1119: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
1120: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
1121: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
1122: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
1123: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
1124: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
1125: <p>
1126:
1127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 1128: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
1129: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 1130: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
1131: <!-- North America mirror:
1132: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 1133: -->
1.490 deraadt 1134: European mirror:
1135: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
1136: <br>
1137: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 1138: <p>
1139:
1140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 1141: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
1142: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1143: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 1144: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
1145: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
1146: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
1147: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
1148: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
1149: designed to provide reliability and security.
1150: <p>
1151:
1152: </ul>
1153:
1.485 ian 1154: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
1155: <ul>
1156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 1157: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
1158: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1159: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 1160: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 1161: installations in about four minutes flat".
1162: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
1163: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 1164: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 1165: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
1166: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
1167: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
1168: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
1169: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
1170: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
1171: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
1172: the steps in the article.
1173: <p>
1174:
1175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 1176: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
1177: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
1178: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
1179: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
1180: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
1181: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
1182: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
1183: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
1184: happening in real life.
1185: <p>
1186:
1187: </ul>
1188:
1.492 ian 1189: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
1190: <ul>
1191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1192: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
1193: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1194: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
1195: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
1196: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
1197: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 1198: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 1199: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
1200: </ul>
1201:
1.483 ian 1202: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
1203: <ul>
1.555 reyk 1204:
1.483 ian 1205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.555 reyk 1206: [GERMAN]
1207: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/articles/openbsd/064-069_linux-bsd-fw.pdf">
1208: Wehrhaft abtauchen - HA-fähige Firewall mit OpenBSD/PF</a>, Linux-Magazin, December 2005
1209: </strong></font><br>
1210: High available firewall setups are considered as the high arts of network protection.
1211: Due to clustering the network stays online even if one firewall fails. This article
1212: from Stephan A. Rickauer (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University Zurich) shows
1213: how well OpenBSD/PF performs in comparison to the well-known duo Linux/Netfilter.
1214: <p>
1215:
1216: </p></li><li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 1217: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
1218: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1219: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
1220: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
1221: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
1222: <p>
1223:
1224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1225: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 1226: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
1227: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
1228: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
1229: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
1230: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
1231: to sites with more information on most topics.
1232: <p>
1233:
1234: </ul>
1235:
1236:
1.479 grunk 1237: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
1238: <ul>
1239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1240: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 1241: Goes to Venice</a>,
1242: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1243: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 1244: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
1245: <br/>
1246: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
1247: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
1248: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 1249: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 1250: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
1251: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
1252: Contains a link to
1253: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
1254: pval's summary slides</a>.
1255: <p>
1256:
1257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 1258: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
1259: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
1260: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
1261: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
1262: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
1263: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
1264: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
1265: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 1266: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 1267: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
1268: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
1269: the packages and ports system"</i>.
1270: <p>
1271:
1272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1273: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
1274: Return of The BSDs</a>,
1275: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1276: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
1277: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
1278: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
1279: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
1280: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
1281: quotes from Bob Beck.
1282: <p>
1283:
1284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 1285: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
1286: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
1287: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 1288: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
1289: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 1290: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
1291: and Linux.<br>
1292: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
1293: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
1294: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
1295: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
1296: of the release
1297: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
1298: <p>
1299: </ul>
1300:
1.476 ian 1301: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
1302: <ul>
1303:
1304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1305: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
1306: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
1307: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
1308: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
1309: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
1310: and too unreliable.
1311: This quote will rattle some cages:
1312: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
1313: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
1314: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
1315: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
1316: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
1317: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
1318: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
1319: costs without any commercial lock-in."
1320: <p>
1321:
1.477 saad 1322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1323: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
1324: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
1325: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1326: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1327: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
1328: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
1329: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
1330: discussion about future plans.
1331: <p>
1332:
1.478 grunk 1333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1334: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
1335: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
1336: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
1337: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
1338: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
1339: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
1340: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
1341: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
1342: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
1343: <p>
1344:
1.476 ian 1345: </ul>
1346:
1.470 saad 1347: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
1348: <ul>
1349:
1350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 1351: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
1352: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
1353: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1354: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
1355: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
1356: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
1357: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
1358: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
1359: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
1360: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
1361: <p>
1362:
1363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 1364: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
1365: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
1366: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
1367: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
1368: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
1369: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
1370: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
1371: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
1372: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
1373: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
1374: <p>
1375:
1376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1377: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
1378: Big debate over small packets</a>,
1379: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
1380: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
1381: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
1382: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
1383: draft.
1384: <p>
1385:
1386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 1387: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
1388: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
1389: ordinateur ?"</a>,
1390: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
1391: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
1392: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
1393: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
1394: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
1395: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
1396: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
1397: <p>
1398:
1399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 1400: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
1401: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
1402: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
1403: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
1404: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
1405: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
1406: performance data with pfstat.
1407: <p>
1408:
1409: </ul>
1410:
1.461 grunk 1411: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
1412: <ul>
1413:
1414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 1415: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
1416: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 1417: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 1418: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
1419: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
1420: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 1421: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 1422: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 1423: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
1424: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
1425: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 1426: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
1427: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 1428: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 1429: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
1430: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 1431: <p>
1432:
1433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 1434: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
1435: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1436: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 1437: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
1438: poor security:
1.467 grunk 1439: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 1440: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 1441: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 1442: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
1443: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
1444: <p>
1445:
1446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 1447: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
1448: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1449: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 1450: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
1451: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 1452: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
1453: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
1454: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
1455: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
1456: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
1457: commercial vendors.
1458: <p>
1459:
1460: </ul>
1461:
1.454 ian 1462: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
1463: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1464:
1465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1466: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1467: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1468: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1469: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1470: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1471: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1472: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1473: <br>
1474: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1475: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1476: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1477: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1478: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1479: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1480: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1481: <p>
1482:
1.454 ian 1483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1484: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1485: Free Bird</a>,
1486: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1487: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1488: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1489: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1490: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1491: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1492: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1493: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1494: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1495: room will only be available in the print edition.
1496: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1497:
1.458 niallo 1498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1499: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1500: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1501: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1502: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1503: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1504: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1505: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1506: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1507: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1508:
1.456 niallo 1509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1510: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1511: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1512: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1513: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1514: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1515: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1516: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1517: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1518: interview.</a>
1519: <p>
1520:
1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1522: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1523: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1524: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1525: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1526: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1527: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1528: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1529: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1530: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1531: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1532: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1533: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1534: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1535: "I have never used it."
1536: <p>
1537:
1538: </ul>
1539:
1.441 deraadt 1540: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1541: <ul>
1542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1543: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1544: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1545: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1546: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1547: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1548: future enhancements.
1549: <p>
1550:
1551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1552: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1553: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1554: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1555: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1556: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1557: North America mirror:
1558: <ul>
1.452 marco 1559: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1560: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1561: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1562: </ul>
1563: European mirror:
1564: <ul>
1.452 marco 1565: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1566: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1567: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1568: </ul>
1569: <p>
1570:
1571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1572: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1573: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1574: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1575: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1576: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1577: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1578: <p>
1579:
1580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1581: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1582: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1583: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1584: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1585: first-hand account.
1586: <p>
1587:
1588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1589: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1590: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1591: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1592: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1593: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1594: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1595: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1596: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1597: <p>
1598:
1599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1600: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1601: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1602: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1603: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1604: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1605: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1606: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1607: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1608: <p>
1609:
1610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1611: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1612: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1613: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1614: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1615: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1616: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1617: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1618: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1619: <p>
1620:
1621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1622: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1623: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1624: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1625: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1626: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1627: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1628: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1629: <p>
1630:
1631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1632: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1633: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1634: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1635: </strong></font><br>
1636: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1637: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1638: with OpenBSD.
1639: </ul>
1640:
1.436 henning 1641: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1642: <ul>
1643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1644: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1645: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1646: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1647: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1648: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1649: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1650: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1651: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1652: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1653: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1654: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1655: <p>
1656: This article can also be found online as
1657: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1658: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1659: <p>
1660:
1661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1662: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1663: </strong></font><br>
1664: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1665: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
1666: <p>
1667:
1668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1669: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1670: </strong></font><br>
1671: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1672: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1673: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1674: the issues we had with IETF.
1675: </ul>
1676:
1.431 ian 1677: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1678: <ul>
1679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1680: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1681: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1682: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1683: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1684: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1685: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1686: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1687: <p>
1688:
1689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1690: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1691: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1692: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1693: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1694: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1695: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1696: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1697: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1698: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1699: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1700: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1701: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1702: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1703: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1704: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1705:
1706: </ul>
1707:
1.427 matthieu 1708: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1709: <ul>
1710:
1711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1712: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1713: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1714: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1715: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1716: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1717: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1718: firmware.
1.434 ian 1719: Similar articles can be found online at:
1720: <ul>
1721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1722: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1723: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1724: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1726: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1727: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1728: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1730: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1731: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1732: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1734: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1735: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1736: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1737: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1738: </ul>
1739:
1.426 ian 1740: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1741: <ul>
1742:
1743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1744: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1745: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1746: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1747: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1748: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1749: mechanism: what it is and why and
1750: how to use it, with examples.
1751: Another excerpt from the book
1752: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1753: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1754: <p>
1755:
1756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1757: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1758: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1759: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1760: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1761: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1762: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1763: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1764: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1765: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1766: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1767: This article is a sample chapter from
1768: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1769: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1770: <p>
1.443 ian 1771:
1772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1773: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1774: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1775: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1776: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1777: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1778: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1779: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1780: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1781: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1782: ends with a sidebar on security.
1783: <p>
1.426 ian 1784: </ul>
1785:
1.424 ian 1786: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1787: <ul>
1788:
1789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1790: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1791: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1792: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1793: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1794: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1795: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1796: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1797: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1798: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1799: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1800: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1801: <p>
1802: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1803: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1804: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1805: <p>
1806:
1807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1808: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1809: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1810: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1811: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1812: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1813: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1814: operating systems.
1815: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1816: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1817: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1818: systems, he writes:
1819: <blockquote>
1820: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1821: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1822: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1823: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1824: to the operating system...
1825: <br/>
1826: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1827: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1828: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1829: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1830: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1831: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1832: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1833: in a closed source operating system).
1834: <br/>
1835: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1836: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1837: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1838: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1839: </blockquote>
1840: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1841: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1842: their hardware and software operates.
1843: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1844: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1845: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1846: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1847: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1848: <p>
1849: </ul>
1850:
1.417 pvalchev 1851: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1852: <ul>
1.421 ian 1853:
1.417 pvalchev 1854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1855: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1856: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1857: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1858: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1859: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1860: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1861: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1862: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1863: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1864: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1865: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1866: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1867: <p>
1868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1869: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1870: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1871: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1872: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1873: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1874: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1875: it claims to do".
1876: <p>
1877:
1878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 1879: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1880: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1881: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1882: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1883: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1884: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1885: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1886: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1887: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1888: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1889: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1890: (yes, this is a hint).
1891: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1892: picked up on the
1893: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1894: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1895: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1896: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1897: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1898: <p>
1899:
1900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1901: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1902: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1903: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1904: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1905: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1906: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1907: the current efforts.
1908: <p>
1909: </ul>
1910:
1.407 henning 1911: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1912: <ul>
1913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1914: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1915: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1916: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1917: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1918: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1919: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1920: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1921: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1922: <p>
1923:
1924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1925: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1926: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1927: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1928: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1929: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1930: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1931: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1932: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1933: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1934: <p>
1.415 ian 1935:
1936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1937: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1938: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1939: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1940: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1941: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1942: overflow attacks... because
1943: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1944: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1945: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1946: and propolice.
1947: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1948: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1949: and that's when the science falls apart."
1950: <p>
1951:
1952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1953: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1954: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1955: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1956: Starts with the question:
1957: <blockquote>
1958: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1959: <br/>
1960: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1961: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1962: <br/>
1963: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1964: Should we believe them?"
1965: </blockquote>
1966: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1967: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1968: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1969: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1970: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1971: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1972: <p>
1973:
1974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1975: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1976: Simple Simon</a>,
1977: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1978: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1979: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1980: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1981: routing/firewall, and more.
1982: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1983: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1984: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1985: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1986: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1987: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1988: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1989: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1990: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1991: </blockquote>
1992: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1993: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1994: <p>
1995:
1996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1997: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1998: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1999: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 2000: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 2001: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
2002: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
2003: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 2004: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 2005: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
2006: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
2007: in spite of it
2008: (registration required, but worth it).
2009: <p>
2010:
2011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2012: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
2013: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
2014: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
2015: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
2016: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
2017: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
2018: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 2019: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 2020: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
2021: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
2022: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
2023: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
2024: <p>
2025:
2026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 2027: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
2028: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
2029: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
2030: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
2031: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
2032: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
2033: <blockquote>
2034: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
2035: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
2036: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
2037: a lot of analysis.
2038: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
2039: </blockquote>
2040: <p>
2041: </ul>
2042:
1.400 marco 2043: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
2044: <ul>
2045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 2046: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
2047: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
2048: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
2049: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
2050: UNIX-like systems.
2051: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
2052: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
2053: <p>
2054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 2055: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
2056: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 2057: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2058: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
2059: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
2060: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
2061: At one point, the article states:
2062: <blockquote>
2063: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
2064: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
2065: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
2066: </blockquote>
2067: And then quotes Theo as saying:
2068: <blockquote>
2069: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
2070: fewer are reading or auditing code."
2071: </blockquote>
2072: <p>
2073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2074: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
2075: marks its fifth birthday</a>
2076: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2077: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
2078: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
2079: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
2080: required).
2081: <p>
2082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 2083: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
2084: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
2085: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
2086: </strong></font><br>
2087: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
2088: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
2089: <p>
2090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 2091: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
2092: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 2093: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 2094: </strong></font><br>
2095: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
2096: <p>
2097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 2098: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
2099: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 2100: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 2101: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 2102: 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 2103: <p>
2104: </ul>
2105:
1.396 henning 2106: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
2107: <ul>
2108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 2109: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
2110: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
2111: Unix Review, July, 2004
2112: </strong></font><br>
2113: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
2114: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 2115: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 2116: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
2117: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
2118: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
2119: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
2120: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
2121: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
2122: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
2123: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
2124: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
2125: and even spelling/wording errors.
2126: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
2127: <p>
2128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2129: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 2130: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
2131: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
2132: </strong></font><br>
2133: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
2134: <p>
2135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2136: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 2137: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
2138: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
2139: </strong></font><br>
2140: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
2141: <p>
2142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 2143: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
2144: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
2145: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
2146: </strong></font><br>
2147: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
2148: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
2149: <p>
2150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 2151: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
2152: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
2153: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
2154: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
2155: <p>
2156: </ul>
2157:
1.405 jolan 2158: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
2159: <ul>
1.545 tom 2160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2161: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 2162: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 2163: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
2164: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
2165: details on how funds are dispersed.
2166: <p>
2167: </ul>
2168:
1.393 david 2169: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
2170: <ul>
2171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 2172: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
2173: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
2174: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
2175: </strong></font><br>
2176: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
2177: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
2178: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
2179: on inserting large number of SQL records.
2180: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
2181: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
2182: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
2183: <p>
2184:
2185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2186: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
2187: Secure by Default</a>,
2188: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
2189: </strong></font><br>
2190: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
2191: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
2192: <p>
2193:
2194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2195: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
2196: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
2197: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
2198: </strong></font><br>
2199: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
2200: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
2201: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
2202: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
2203: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
2204: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
2205: <p>
2206:
2207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2208: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
2209: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
2210: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
2211: </strong></font><br>
2212: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
2213: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
2214: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
2215: <p>
2216:
2217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2218: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
2219: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
2220: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
2221: </strong></font><br>
2222: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
2223: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
2224: <p>
2225: </ul>
2226:
1.388 mcbride 2227: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
2228: <ul>
1.394 jolan 2229:
2230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2231: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
2232: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
2233: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
2234: </strong></font><br>
2235: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
2236: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
2237: available for sparc64.
2238: <p>
2239:
1.390 beck 2240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2241: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
2242: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
2243: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
2244: </strong></font><br>
2245: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
2246: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
2247: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
2248: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
2249: <p>
2250:
2251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 2252: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
2253: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 2254: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 2255: </strong></font><br>
2256: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
2257: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
2258: it does: CARP provides sharing
2259: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
2260: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
2261: detail to get you started using it.
2262: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
2263: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
2264: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
2265: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
2266: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
2267: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
2268: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 2269: <p>
1.391 ian 2270:
2271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 2272: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 2273: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
2274: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 2275: </strong></font><br>
2276: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 2277: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 2278: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 2279: <p>
1.388 mcbride 2280:
2281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2282: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
2283: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 2284: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 2285: </strong></font><br>
2286: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
2287: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
2288: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
2289: unencumbered by patents.
2290: <p>
2291: </ul>
2292:
1.378 henning 2293: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
2294: <ul>
1.384 jose 2295:
2296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 2297: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
2298: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
2299: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
2300: </strong></font><br>
2301: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
2302: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
2303: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
2304: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
2305: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
2306: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
2307: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
2308: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
2309: in the page tables."
2310: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
2311: <p>
2312:
2313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2314: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
2315: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
2316: </strong></font><br>
2317: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
2318: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
2319: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
2320: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 2321: <p>
1.384 jose 2322:
1.378 henning 2323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2324: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
2325: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 2326: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
2327: </strong></font><br>
2328: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
2329: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
2330: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
2331: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
2332: (quote:
2333: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
2334: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 2335: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 2336: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
2337: the other developers for their work on the system.
2338: <p>
2339:
2340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2341: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
2342: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
2343: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 2344: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 2345: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
2346: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
2347: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
2348: too.
2349: <p>
2350:
2351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 2352: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
2353: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 2354: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 2355: OpenBSD source code using
2356: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
2357: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
2358: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
2359: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
2360: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
2361: <p>
2362: </ul>
2363:
1.374 jose 2364: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
2365: <ul>
2366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 2367: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 2368: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
2369: </strong></font><br>
2370: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
2371: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
2372: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
2373: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
2374: it."
2375: <p>
2376:
2377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 2378: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
2379: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
2380: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
2381: </strong></font><br/>
2382: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
2383: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
2384: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
2385: <p>
2386: </ul>
2387:
1.369 ian 2388: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
2389: <ul>
2390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2391: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
2392: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
2393: </strong></font><br/>
2394: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
2395: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
2396: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
2397: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
2398: <p>
2399:
2400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2401: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
2402: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
2403: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
2404: </strong></font><br/>
2405: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
2406: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
2407: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
2408: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
2409: form factor.
2410: <p>
2411:
2412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2413: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
2414: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
2415: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
2416: Features</a>,
2417: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
2418: </strong></font><br/>
2419: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
2420: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
2421: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
2422: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
2423: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
2424: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
2425: <p>
2426: This article can also be found online at:
2427: <ul>
2428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2429: <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 2430: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
2431: </strong></font>
2432: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2433: </ul>
2434: <p>
1.392 david 2435:
1.371 jose 2436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2437: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
2438: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 2439: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
2440: </strong></font><br/>
2441: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
2442: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
2443: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 2444: <p>
1.371 jose 2445:
2446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 2447: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 2448: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 2449: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 2450: </strong></font><br/>
2451: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
2452: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
2453: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
2454: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
2455: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
2456: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
2457: and its history with OpenBSD.
2458: </ul>
2459:
1.567 kurt 2460: <h2>September, 2003</h2>
2461: <ul>
2462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2463: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/rosenthal/rosenthal_html/">
2464: A Digital Preservation Network Appliance Based on OpenBSD</a>, BSDcon, September, 2003.
2465: </strong></font><br>
2466: David S. H. Rosenthal's paper on the design, implementation and deployment of the
2467: <a href="http://www.lockss.org">LOCKSS</a> network appliance based on OpenBSD.
2468: </ul>
2469:
1.368 henning 2470: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
2471: <ul>
2472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2473: [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 2474: </strong></font><br>
2475: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2476: </ul>
2477:
1.364 jose 2478: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2479: <ul>
2480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2481: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2482: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2483: UNIX Review,
2484: July, 2003.
2485: </strong></font><br>
2486: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2487: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2488: who want more information.
2489: <p>
2490:
2491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2492: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2493: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2494: Government Computer News,
2495: July 22, 2003.
2496: </strong></font><br>
2497: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2498: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2499: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2500: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2501: <p>
2502:
2503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2504: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2505: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2506: SANS Institute,
2507: July 22, 2003.
2508: </strong></font><br>
2509: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2510: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2511: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2512: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2513: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2514: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2515: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2516: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2517: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2518: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2519: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2520: <p>
2521:
2522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2523: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2524: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2525: OnLamp.com,
2526: July 17, 2003.
2527: </strong></font><br>
2528: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2529: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2530: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2531: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2532: have been working on.
2533:
2534: </ul>
2535:
1.356 jose 2536: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2537: <ul>
2538:
2539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2540: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2541: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2542: UNIX Review,
2543: June, 2003.
2544: </strong></font><br>
2545: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2546: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2547: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2548: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2549: <p>
2550:
2551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2552: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2553: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2554: eWeek,
2555: June 23, 2003.
2556: </strong></font><br>
2557: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2558: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2559: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2560: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2561: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2562: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2563: <p>
2564:
2565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2566: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2567: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2568: Software Development Online,
2569: June, 2003.
2570: </strong></font><br>
2571: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2572: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2573: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2574: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2575: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2576: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2577: current activities.
2578: <p>
2579:
2580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2581: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2582: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2583: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2584: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2585: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2586: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2587: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2588: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2589: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2590: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2591: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2592: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2593: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2594: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2595: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2596: decisions.
2597: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2598: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2599: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2600: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2601: <p>
2602:
2603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2604: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2605: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2606: Page 58, eWeek,
2607: June 2, 2003.
2608: </strong></font><br>
2609: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2610: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2611: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2612: been addressed in -current.
2613: <p>
2614:
1.356 jose 2615: </ul>
2616:
2617: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2618: <ul>
2619:
1.355 jose 2620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2621: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2622: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2623: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2624: </strong></font><br>
2625: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2626: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2627: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2628: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2629: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2630: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2631: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2632: <p>
2633:
2634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2635: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2636: Beyond Linux</a>,
2637: InfoWorld,
2638: May 23, 2003.
2639: </strong></font><br>
2640: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2641: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2642: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2643: compared to the GPL.
2644: <p>
2645:
2646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2647: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2648: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2649: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2650: May 17, 2003.
2651: </strong></font><br>
2652: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2653: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2654: the business section and half of another page inside
2655: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2656: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2657: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2658: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2659: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2660: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2661: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2662: <br>
2663: This article can also be found online at:
2664: <ul>
2665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2666: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2667: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2668: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2669: May 17, 2003
2670: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2671: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2673: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2674: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2675: Montreal Gazette,
2676: May 21, 2003
2677: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2678: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2679: <p>
1.346 ian 2680:
2681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2682: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2683: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2684: May 7, 2003.
2685: </strong></font><br>
2686: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2687: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2688: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2689: <p>
2690:
2691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2692: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2693: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2694: OsOpinion,
2695: May 6, 2003.
2696: </strong></font><br>
2697: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2698: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2699: <br>
2700: This article can also be found online at:
2701: <ul>
2702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2703: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2704: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2705: NewsFactor Network.
2706: </strong></font>
2707: </ul>
2708: <p>
2709:
2710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2711: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2712: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2713: ITBusiness,
2714: May 2, 2003.
2715: </strong></font><br>
2716: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2717: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2718: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2719: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2720: <p>
2721:
2722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2723: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2724: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2725: InfoWorld,
2726: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2727: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2728: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2729: <br>
2730: This article can also be found online at:
2731: <ul>
2732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2733: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2734: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2735: IDG Singapore.
2736: </strong></font>
2737: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2738: <p>
2739:
1.339 jose 2740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2741: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2742: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2743: ZDNet,
2744: May 1, 2003.
2745: </strong></font><br>
2746: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2747: someone using parts from previous articles.
2748: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2749: This article can also be found online at:
2750: <ul>
2751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2752: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2753: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2754: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2755: </strong></font>
2756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2757: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2758: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2759: CNET News.com.
2760: </strong></font>
2761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2762: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2763: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2764: ZDNet UK.
2765: </strong></font>
2766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2767: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2768: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2769: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2770: </strong></font>
2771: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2772: <p>
1.339 jose 2773:
1.341 deraadt 2774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 2775: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2776: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2777: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2778: May 1, 2003.
2779: </strong></font><br>
2780: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2781: that have been added
2782: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2783: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2784: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2785: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2786: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2787: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2788: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2789: <p>
2790:
2791: </ul>
2792:
1.253 ian 2793: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2794: <ul>
1.255 ian 2795:
1.260 ian 2796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2797: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2798: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2799: TechRepublic,
2800: April 28, 2003.
2801: </strong></font><br>
2802: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2803: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2804: work.<br>
2805: Can also be found online at:
2806: <ul>
2807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2808: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2809: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2810: ZDNet UK.
2811: </strong></font>
2812: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2813: <p>
2814:
2815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2816: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2817: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2818: IDG,
2819: April 24, 2003.
2820: </strong></font><br>
2821: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2822: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2823: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2824: Can also be found online at:
2825: <ul>
2826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2827: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2828: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2829: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2830: </strong></font>
2831: </ul>
2832: <p>
2833:
2834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2835: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2836: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2837: Slate,
2838: April 24, 2003.
2839: </strong></font><br>
2840: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2841: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2842: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2843: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2844: <p>
2845:
2846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2847: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2848: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2849: April 24, 2003.
2850: </strong></font><br>
2851: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2852: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2853: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2854: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2855: <p>
2856:
2857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2858: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2859: April 24, 2003.
2860: </strong></font><br>
2861: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2862: the free software community".
2863: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2864: other articles.
2865: <p>
2866:
2867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2868: <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 2869: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2870: </strong></font><br>
2871: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2872: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2873: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2874: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2875: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2876: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2877: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2878: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2879: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2880: <br/>
2881: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2882: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2883: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2884: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2885: <br>
2886: Can also be found online at:
2887: <ul>
2888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2889: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2890: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2891: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2892: </strong></font>
2893: </ul>
1.324 ian 2894: <p>
2895:
2896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2897: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2898: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2899: </strong></font><br>
2900: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2901: article above.
2902: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2903: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2904: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2905: <br>
2906: Can also be found online at:
2907: <ul>
2908: <li>
2909: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2910: </strong></font>
2911: </ul>
1.324 ian 2912: <p>
2913:
2914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2915: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2916: </strong></font><br>
2917: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2918: <p>
2919:
2920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2921: <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.
2922: </strong></font><br>
2923: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2924: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2925: <p>
2926:
2927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2928: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2929: April 23, 2003.
2930: </strong></font><br>
2931: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2932: <p>
2933:
2934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2935: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2936: April 22, 2003.
2937: </strong></font><br>
2938: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2939: <p>
2940:
2941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2942: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2943: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2944: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2945: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2946: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2947: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2948: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2949: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2950: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2951: Can also be found online at:
2952: <ul>
2953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2954: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2955: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2956: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2957: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2959: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2960: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2961: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2962: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2963: </ul>
2964: <p>
2965:
2966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2967: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2968: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2969: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2970: </strong></font><br>
2971: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2972: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2973: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2974: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2975: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2976: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2977: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2978: <p>
2979:
2980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2981: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2982: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2983: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2984: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2985: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2986: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2987: at UPenn and DARPA.
2988: <p>
2989:
2990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2991: [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,
2992: France
1.315 deraadt 2993: April 18, 2003.
2994: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2995: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2996: <p>
2997:
2998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2999: [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 3000: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3001: </strong></font><br>
3002: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
3003: <p>
3004:
3005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 3006: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
3007: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
3008: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3009: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 3010: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
3011: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
3012: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
3013: <p>
3014:
3015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 3016: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
3017: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3018: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 3019: </strong></font><br>
3020: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3021: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
3022: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 3023: American century.
1.267 deraadt 3024: <p>
3025:
3026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 3027: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
3028: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3029: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 3030: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 3031: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
3032: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
3033: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
3034: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
3035: Can also be found online at:
3036: <ul>
3037: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
3038: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 3039: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 3040: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 3041: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 3042: <p>
3043:
3044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 3045: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 3046: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 3047: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 3048: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 3049: </strong></font><br>
3050: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 3051: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
3052: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
3053: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
3054: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 3055:
3056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3057: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
3058: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
3059: New York Times.
3060: </strong></font>(free registration required)
3061:
1.273 deraadt 3062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3063: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 3064: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 3065: ABC News.
3066: </strong></font>
3067:
3068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3069: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 3070: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 3071: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 3072: </strong></font>
3073:
3074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3075: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 3076: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 3077: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 3078: </strong></font>
3079:
3080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 3081: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
3082: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3083: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 3084: </strong></font>
3085:
3086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3087: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 3088: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 3089: Times Daily, AL.
3090: </strong></font>
3091:
3092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3093: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
3094: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
3095: Boston.com, MA.
3096: </strong></font>
3097:
3098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3099: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 3100: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 3101: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
3102: </strong></font>
3103:
3104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 3105: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
3106: [Article was pulled]</a>
3107: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 3108: </strong></font>
3109:
3110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3111: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
3112: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
3113: Infoshop News.
3114: </strong></font>
3115:
3116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3117: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
3118: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3119: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
3120: </strong></font>
3121:
3122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 3123: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
3124: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
3125: Raleigh News, NC.
3126: </strong></font>
3127:
3128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 3129: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 3130: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
3131: Napa News, CA.
3132: </strong></font>
3133:
3134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3135: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 3136: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3137: NEPA News, PA.
3138: </strong></font>
3139:
3140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3141: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
3142: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
3143: Wired News.
3144: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 3145: <br>
3146: <li>
1.333 deraadt 3147: <font color="#009000"><strong>
3148: [JAPANESE]
3149: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
3150: Wired News Japan</a>
3151: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 3152:
1.271 deraadt 3153: </ul>
3154: <p>
1.272 deraadt 3155: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
3156: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 3157: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
3158: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
3159: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
3160: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
3161: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
3162: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 3163: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 3164: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
3165: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
3166: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 3167: <p>
3168: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 3169:
3170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3171: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 3172: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
3173: Indianapolis Star, IN.
3174: </strong></font>
3175:
3176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 3177: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
3178: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3179: Miami Herald, FL.
3180: </strong></font>
3181:
3182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 3183: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3184: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
3185: </strong></font>
3186:
3187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3188: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 3189: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3190: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 3191: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 3192:
3193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3194: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
3195: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
3196: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
3197: ABC News.
3198: </strong></font>
3199:
1.276 deraadt 3200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3201: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 3202: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3203: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 3204: </strong></font>
3205:
1.286 dhartmei 3206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3207: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 3208: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3209: Wilmington Star, NC.
3210: </strong></font>
3211:
1.300 jose 3212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3213: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
3214: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
3215: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
3216: </strong></font>
3217:
1.309 jose 3218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3219: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
3220: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
3221: Globe Technology.
3222: </strong></font>
3223:
1.263 deraadt 3224: </ul>
1.262 beck 3225: <p>
3226:
3227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 3228: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
3229: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3230: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 3231: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 3232: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 3233: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
3234: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
3235: <p>
3236:
3237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 3238: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
3239: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
3240: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3241: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 3242: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
3243: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
3244: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
3245: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
3246: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
3247: and simply restates other press reports.
3248: <p>
3249:
3250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 3251: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
3252: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
3253: OS News, April 18, 2003.
3254: </strong></font><br>
3255: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
3256: <p>
3257:
3258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 3259: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
3260: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3261: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 3262: </strong></font><br>
3263: Another report on the DARPA funding.
3264: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
3265: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
3266: <p>
3267:
3268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 3269: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
3270: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
3271: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
3272: April 17, 2003.
3273: </strong></font><br>
3274: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
3275: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
3276: Tech Anthems</a>
3277: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
3278: 4 so far.
3279: <p>
3280:
3281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 3282: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
3283: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3284: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3285: </strong></font><br>
3286: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
3287: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
3288: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
3289: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
3290: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
3291: Goes on to say:
3292: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
3293: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
3294: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
3295: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 3296: This article is also found online at:
3297: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 3298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3299: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
3300: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
3301: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3302: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3304: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
3305: ZDnet</a>,
3306: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3307: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3309: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
3310: ZDnet Australia</a>,
3311: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 3312: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 3313: </ul>
1.260 ian 3314: <p>
1.279 deraadt 3315:
1.260 ian 3316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3317: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 3318: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 3319: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3320: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 3321: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 3322: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
3323: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
3324: without notice or justification.
3325: <p>
3326:
3327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 3328: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 3329: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 3330: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3331: </strong></font><br>
3332: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
3333: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 3334: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 3335: effective today, without any warning..."
3336: <p>
1.257 ian 3337:
3338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 3339: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
3340: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3341: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 3342: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 3343: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
3344: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
3345: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
3346: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
3347: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 3348: <p>
3349:
3350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 3351: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
3352: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3353: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 3354: </strong></font><br>
3355: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
3356: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
3357: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
3358: quoting two of them:
3359: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
3360: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
3361: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
3362: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
3363: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
3364: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
3365: <p>
3366:
1.255 ian 3367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3368: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
3369: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 3370: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3371: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 3372: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 3373: <p>
3374:
3375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 3376: [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 3377: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3378: </strong></font><br>
3379: New security concepts in OpenBSD
3380: <p>
3381:
3382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 3383: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
3384: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3385: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 3386: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 3387: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 3388: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
3389: security experts for more than three decades."
3390: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
3391: <p>
1.261 ian 3392:
1.254 drahn 3393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 3394: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 3395: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3396: </strong></font><br>
3397: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3398: <p>
3399:
3400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 3401: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
3402: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
3403: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
3404: </strong></font><br>
3405: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
3406: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
3407: discussion OpenBSD's path.
3408: <p>
3409:
3410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 3411: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
3412: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3413: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 3414: </strong></font><br>
3415: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
3416: from US DARPA.
3417: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
3418: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
3419: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
3420: the BSD license.
3421: <p>
3422: </ul>
3423:
1.251 ian 3424: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3425: <ul>
3426:
3427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3428: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
3429: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
3430: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
3431: </strong></font><br>
3432:
3433: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3434: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3435: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3436: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3437: <p>
3438:
3439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 3440: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
3441: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 3442: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 3443: </strong></font><br>
3444: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
3445: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
3446: Mentions
3447: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
3448: and
3449: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
3450: programs.
3451: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 3452: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 3453: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
3454: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
3455: <p>
1.325 ian 3456: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
3457: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 3458:
3459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3460: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
3461: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
3462: </strong></font><br>
3463: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
3464: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
3465: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
3466: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
3467: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
3468: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
3469: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
3470: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
3471: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
3472: put into service."
3473: <p>
3474: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3475: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3476: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3477: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3478: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3479: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3480: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3481: computers with security features."
3482: <p>
1.329 ian 3483:
3484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3485: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3486: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3487: Slate,
3488: March 3, 2003.
3489: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3490: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3491: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3492: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3493: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3494: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3495: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3496: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3497: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3498: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3499: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3500: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3501: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3502: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3503: of more secure open-source solutions like
3504: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3505: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3506: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3507: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3508: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3509: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3510: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3511: the Beltway."
3512: <p>
1.251 ian 3513: </ul>
3514:
1.249 jufi 3515: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3516: <ul>
3517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3518: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3519: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3520: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3521: </strong></font><br>
3522: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3523: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3524: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3525: <p>
1.334 ian 3526:
3527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3528: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3529: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3530: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3531: </strong></font><br>
3532: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3533: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3534: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3535: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3536: "... the hypothetical question ...
3537: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3538: <br>
3539: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3540: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3541: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3542: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3543: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3544: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3545: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3546: support network security.
3547: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3548: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3549: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3550: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3551: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3552: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3553: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3554: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3555: <br>
3556: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3557: <p>
3558:
1.249 jufi 3559: </ul>
3560:
1.246 jufi 3561: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3562: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3563:
1.247 jufi 3564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3565: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3566: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3567: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3568: </strong></font><br>
3569: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3570: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3571: <p>
3572:
1.247 jufi 3573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3574: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3575: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3576: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3577: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3578: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3579: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3580: <p>
3581:
3582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3583: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3584: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3585: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3586: </strong></font><br>
3587: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3588: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3589: <p>
1.247 jufi 3590: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3591:
1.244 jufi 3592: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3593: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3594:
1.247 jufi 3595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3596: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3597: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3598: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3599: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3600: </strong></font><br>
3601: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3602: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3603: md5 digests.
3604: <p>
3605:
1.247 jufi 3606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3607: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3608: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3609: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3610: </strong></font><br>
3611: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3612: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3613: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3614: right the first time."
3615: <p>
1.247 jufi 3616: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3617:
3618:
3619: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3620: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3621:
1.247 jufi 3622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3623: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3624: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3625: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3626: </strong></font><br>
3627: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3628: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3629: part 6</a>.
3630: <p>
3631:
1.247 jufi 3632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3633: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3634: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3635: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3636: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3637: </strong></font><br>
3638: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3639: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3640: <p>
1.301 jose 3641:
3642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3643: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3644: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3645: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3646: </strong></font><br>
3647:
3648: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3649: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3650: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3651: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3652: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3653: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3654: <i>Here's the
3655: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3656: <p>
1.247 jufi 3657: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3658:
3659: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3660: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3661:
1.247 jufi 3662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3663: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3664: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3665: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3666: </strong></font><br>
3667: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3668: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3669: <p>
3670:
1.247 jufi 3671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3672: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3673: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3674: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3675: </strong></font><br>
3676: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3677: this time using pf.
3678: <p>
1.247 jufi 3679: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3680:
3681: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3682: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3683:
1.247 jufi 3684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3685: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3686: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3687: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3688: </strong></font><br>
3689: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3690: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3691: their rotation.
3692: <p>
3693:
1.247 jufi 3694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3695: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3696: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3697: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3698: </strong></font><br>
3699: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3700: <p>
1.247 jufi 3701: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3702:
1.239 jufi 3703: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3704: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3705:
1.247 jufi 3706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3707: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3708: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3709: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3710: </strong></font><br>
3711: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3712: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3713: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3714: <p>
3715:
1.247 jufi 3716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3717: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3718: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3719: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3720: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3721: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3722: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3723: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3724: <p>
1.247 jufi 3725: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3726:
1.235 lebel 3727: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3728: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3729:
1.239 jufi 3730:
1.247 jufi 3731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3732: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3733: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3734: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3735: </strong></font><br>
3736: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3737: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3738: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3739: <p>
1.301 jose 3740:
1.247 jufi 3741: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3742:
1.228 horacio 3743: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3744: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3745:
1.247 jufi 3746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3747: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3748: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3749: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3750: </strong></font><br>
3751: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3752: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3753: <p>
3754:
1.247 jufi 3755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3756: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3757: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3758: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3759: </strong></font><br>
3760: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3761: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3762: <p>
3763:
1.247 jufi 3764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3765: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3766: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3767: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3768: </strong></font><br>
3769: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3770: on the desktop of his parents.
3771: <p>
3772:
1.247 jufi 3773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3774: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3775: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3776: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3777: </strong></font><br>
3778: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3779: using IPFilter.
3780:
3781: <p>
3782:
1.247 jufi 3783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3784: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3785: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3786: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3787: </strong></font><br>
3788: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3789: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3790: perspectives of the four OS.
3791: <br>
3792: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3793: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3794: <p>
3795:
1.247 jufi 3796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3797: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3798: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3799: software and security</a>,
3800: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3801: </strong></font><br>
3802:
3803: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3804: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3805: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3806: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3807: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3808: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3809: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3810: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3811: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3812: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3813: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3814: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3815: <p>
1.247 jufi 3816: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3817:
1.225 horacio 3818: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3819: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3820:
1.247 jufi 3821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3822: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3823: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3824: Interview</a>,
3825: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3826: </strong></font><br>
3827:
3828: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3829: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3830: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3831: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3832: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3833: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3834: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3835: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3836: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3837: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3838: of choice.
3839: <p>
1.247 jufi 3840: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3841:
3842: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3843: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3844:
1.247 jufi 3845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3846: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3847: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3848: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3849: </strong></font><br>
3850:
3851: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3852: <p>
3853:
1.247 jufi 3854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3855: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3856: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3857: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3858: </strong></font><br>
3859:
3860: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3861: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3862: <p>
1.247 jufi 3863: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3864:
1.218 horacio 3865: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3866: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3867:
1.247 jufi 3868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3869: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3870: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3871: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3872: </strong></font><br>
3873:
3874: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3875: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3876: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3877: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3878: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3879: subjects. Worth a read.
3880: <p>
3881:
3882:
1.247 jufi 3883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3884: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3885: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3886: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3887: </strong></font><br>
3888:
3889: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3890: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3891: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3892: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3893: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3894: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3895: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3896: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3897: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3898: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3899: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3900: on other operating systems.<br>
3901: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3902: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3903: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3904: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3905: <p>
3906:
1.247 jufi 3907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3908: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3909: Operating System 2010</a>,
3910: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3911: </strong></font><br>
3912:
3913: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3914: covering the level of software integration into the core
3915: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3916: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3917: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3918: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3919: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3920: <p>
3921:
1.247 jufi 3922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3923: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3924: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3925: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3926: </strong></font><br>
3927:
3928: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3929: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3930: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3931: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3932: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3933: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3934: <p>
1.247 jufi 3935: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3936:
1.210 jufi 3937: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3938: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3939:
1.247 jufi 3940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3941: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3942: Already a Contender</a>,
3943: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3944: </strong></font><br>
3945:
3946: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3947: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3948: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3949: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3950: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3951: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3952: <p>
3953:
1.247 jufi 3954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3955: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3956: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3957: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3958: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3959:
1.224 horacio 3960: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3961: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3962: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3963: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3964: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3965: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3966: <p>
1.247 jufi 3967: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3968:
3969: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3970: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3971:
1.247 jufi 3972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3973: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3974: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3975: Division</a>,
3976: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3977: </strong></font><br>
3978:
3979: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3980: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3981: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3982: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3983: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3984: investment</em>.<br>
3985: The implementation details can be seen on their
3986: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3987: <p>
3988:
1.247 jufi 3989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3990: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3991: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3992: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3993: </strong></font><br>
3994:
3995: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3996: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3997: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3998: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3999: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
4000: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
4001: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
4002: <p>
4003:
4004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4005: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 4006: Thinking about Security</a>,
4007: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 4008: </strong></font><br>
4009:
4010: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
4011: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
4012: security and says that even secured operating systems running
4013: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
4014: to time.<br>
4015: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
4016: system and just the most secure system.
4017: <p>
4018:
1.247 jufi 4019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4020: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 4021: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
4022: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 4023: </strong></font><br>
4024:
4025: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
4026: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
4027: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
4028: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
4029: choice:<br>
4030: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
4031: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
4032: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
4033: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
4034: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
4035: network security devices and as such must be well
4036: armored."</em><br>
4037: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
4038: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
4039: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
4040: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
4041: <br>
4042: Bravo!
4043: <p>
1.247 jufi 4044: </ul>
1.210 jufi 4045:
1.207 ian 4046: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4047: <ul>
1.215 horacio 4048:
1.247 jufi 4049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 4050: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
4051: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
4052: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 4053:
1.207 ian 4054: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
4055: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 4056: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 4057: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
4058: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
4059: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 4060: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 4061: <p>
1.247 jufi 4062: </ul>
1.207 ian 4063:
1.194 jufi 4064: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4065: <ul>
1.194 jufi 4066:
1.247 jufi 4067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4068: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 4069: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
4070: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 4071: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4072:
1.240 miod 4073: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 4074: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
4075: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
4076: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
4077: <p>
4078:
1.247 jufi 4079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4080: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
4081: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
4082: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
4083:
4084: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
4085: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
4086: <p>
4087:
4088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4089: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
4090: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4091: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
4092:
4093: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
4094: <p>
4095:
4096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4097: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 4098: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
4099: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
4100: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4101:
1.240 miod 4102: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 4103: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 4104: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
4105: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 4106: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 4107: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 4108: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
4109: <br>
1.413 deraadt 4110: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 4111: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
4112: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
4113: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
4114: <p>
4115:
1.247 jufi 4116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 4117: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
4118: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 4119: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 4120: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4121:
1.194 jufi 4122: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
4123: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
4124: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
4125: <br>
4126: The new
4127: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 4128: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 4129: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
4130: <p>
1.247 jufi 4131: </ul>
1.194 jufi 4132:
1.190 horacio 4133: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4134: <ul>
1.190 horacio 4135:
1.247 jufi 4136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 4137:
4138: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
4139: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
4140:
1.301 jose 4141:
1.191 jufi 4142: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
4143: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
4144:
4145: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
4146: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
4147:
1.566 martynas 4148: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20010527142347">
1.212 horacio 4149: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 4150: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
4151:
1.211 horacio 4152: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
4153: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 4154: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
4155:
1.247 jufi 4156: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 4157: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
4158:
1.247 jufi 4159: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 4160: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
4161:
1.212 horacio 4162: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
4163: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 4164: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
4165:
4166: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
4167: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
4168:
4169: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
4170: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
4171:
1.301 jose 4172: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
4173: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
4174:
1.191 jufi 4175: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
4176: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
4177:
4178: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 4179: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 4180:
1.192 jufi 4181: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
4182: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 4183: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 4184:
1.193 deraadt 4185: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
4186: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 4187: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 4188:
1.247 jufi 4189: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 4190: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
4191:
1.247 jufi 4192: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 4193: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
4194: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
4195:
1.213 horacio 4196: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 4197: 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 4198: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
4199:
1.190 horacio 4200: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 4201: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
4202: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
4203: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
4204: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
4205: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
4206: <p>
1.190 horacio 4207:
1.247 jufi 4208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4209: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
4210: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
4211: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 4212: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4213:
1.195 jufi 4214: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 4215: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
4216: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
4217: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 4218: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
4219: <p>
4220:
1.247 jufi 4221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4222: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 4223: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
4224: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
4225: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4226:
1.191 jufi 4227: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 4228: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
4229: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
4230: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
4231: <p>
4232:
4233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4234: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
4235: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4236: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
4237:
4238: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
4239: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 4240: <p>
1.247 jufi 4241: </ul>
1.190 horacio 4242:
1.191 jufi 4243:
1.186 jufi 4244: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4245: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 4246:
1.247 jufi 4247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 4248: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 4249: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
4250: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 4251: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 4252:
1.188 jufi 4253: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 4254: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 4255: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 4256: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
4257: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 4258: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 4259: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 4260: <p>
4261:
1.301 jose 4262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4263: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
4264: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4265: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
4266:
4267: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
4268: <p>
1.191 jufi 4269:
1.247 jufi 4270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 4271: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
4272: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 4273: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 4274: </strong></font><br>
4275:
4276: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
4277: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
4278: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
4279: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
4280: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
4281: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
4282: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
4283: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
4284: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
4285: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
4286: familiar?
4287: <p>
1.247 jufi 4288: </ul>
1.191 jufi 4289:
1.178 louis 4290: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4291: <ul>
1.178 louis 4292:
1.247 jufi 4293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 4294: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 4295: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
4296: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 4297: </strong></font><br>
4298:
4299: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
4300: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
4301: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
4302: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
4303: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
4304: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
4305: <p>
4306:
1.247 jufi 4307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4308: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
4309: Open source under the hood</a>,
4310: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 4311: </strong></font><br>
4312:
4313: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
4314: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
4315: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
4316: <p>
4317:
1.247 jufi 4318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4319: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
4320: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
4321: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 4322: </strong></font><br>
4323:
4324: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
4325: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
4326: <p>
1.247 jufi 4327: </ul>
1.179 louis 4328:
1.174 louis 4329:
1.175 louis 4330: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4331: <ul>
1.175 louis 4332:
1.247 jufi 4333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4334: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
4335: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
4336: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 4337: </strong></font><br>
4338:
4339: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
4340: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
4341: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
4342: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
4343: <p>
4344:
1.247 jufi 4345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4346: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
4347: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
4348: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 4349: </strong></font><br>
4350:
4351: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 4352: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 4353: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
4354: <p>
1.247 jufi 4355: </ul>
1.175 louis 4356:
1.176 louis 4357:
1.172 mickey 4358: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4359: <ul>
1.172 mickey 4360:
1.247 jufi 4361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4362: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
4363: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 4364: </strong></font><br>
4365:
4366: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
4367: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
4368: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 4369: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 4370: <p>
4371:
1.247 jufi 4372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 4373: <a
1.269 deraadt 4374: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
4375: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
4376: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 4377: </strong></font><br>
4378:
4379: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
4380: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
4381: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
4382: <p>
4383:
1.247 jufi 4384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4385: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 4386: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
4387: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 4388: </strong></font><br>
4389:
4390: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
4391: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
4392: <p>
4393:
1.247 jufi 4394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4395: <a
1.269 deraadt 4396: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
4397: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 4398: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
4399: </strong></font><br>
4400:
4401: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
4402: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
4403: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
4404: our own Theo de Raadt.
4405: <p>
4406:
1.247 jufi 4407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4408: <a
1.269 deraadt 4409: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
4410: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
4411: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 4412: </strong></font><br>
4413:
4414: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
4415: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
4416: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
4417: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
4418: shut down.]
4419: <p>
4420:
1.247 jufi 4421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4422: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 4423: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 4424: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
4425: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 4426: </strong></font><br>
4427:
4428: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
4429: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
4430: <p>
1.247 jufi 4431: </ul>
1.172 mickey 4432:
1.161 louis 4433: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4434: <ul>
1.161 louis 4435:
1.247 jufi 4436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4437: <a
1.269 deraadt 4438: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
4439: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
4440: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 4441: </strong></font><br>
4442:
4443: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
4444: by John Wolley
4445: <p>
4446:
1.247 jufi 4447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4448: <a
1.269 deraadt 4449: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
4450: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
4451: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 4452: </strong></font><br>
4453:
4454: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
4455: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
4456: OpenBSD).
4457: <p>
4458:
1.247 jufi 4459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4460: <a
1.247 jufi 4461: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 4462: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
4463: </strong></font><br>
4464:
4465: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
4466: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
4467: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
4468: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
4469: and hindsight.
4470: <p>
4471:
1.247 jufi 4472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4473: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4474: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4475: </strong></font><br>
4476:
4477: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4478: <p>
4479:
1.247 jufi 4480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4481: <a
1.168 provos 4482: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4483: December 7, 2000
4484: </strong></font><br>
4485:
4486: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4487: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4488: us explain.
4489: <p>
4490:
1.247 jufi 4491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4492: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4493: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4494: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4495: December 6, 2000
4496: </strong></font><br>
4497:
4498: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4499: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4500: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4501: <p>
4502:
1.247 jufi 4503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4504: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4505: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4506: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4507: </strong></font><br>
4508:
4509: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4510: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4511: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4512: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4513: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4514: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4515: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4516: <p>
4517:
4518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4519: <a
1.226 horacio 4520: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4521: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4522: </strong></font><br>
4523:
4524: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4525: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4526: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4527: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4528: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4529: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4530: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4531: <p>
1.162 millert 4532:
1.247 jufi 4533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4534: <a
1.161 louis 4535: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4536: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4537: </strong></font><br>
4538:
4539: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4540: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4541: <p>
4542:
1.247 jufi 4543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4544: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4545: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4546: </strong></font><br>
4547:
4548: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4549: <p>
4550:
4551:
1.247 jufi 4552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4553: <a
1.226 horacio 4554: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4555: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4556: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4557: </strong></font><br>
4558:
4559: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4560: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4561: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4562: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4563: <p>
1.247 jufi 4564: </ul>
1.169 louis 4565:
1.158 louis 4566: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4567: <ul>
1.147 louis 4568:
1.247 jufi 4569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4570: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4571: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4572: </strong></font><br>
4573:
4574: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4575: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4576: <p>
4577:
1.247 jufi 4578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4579: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4580: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4581: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4582: </strong></font><br>
4583: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4584: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4585: <p>
4586:
1.247 jufi 4587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4588: <a
4589: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4590: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4591: </strong></font><br>
4592:
4593: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4594: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4595: <p>
4596:
1.247 jufi 4597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4598: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4599: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4600: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4601:
1.213 horacio 4602: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4603: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4604: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4605: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4606: <p>
1.215 horacio 4607:
1.247 jufi 4608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4609: <a
4610: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4611: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4612: </strong></font><br>
4613:
4614: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4615: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4616: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4617: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4618: much of the attitude too).
4619: <p>
1.161 louis 4620:
1.247 jufi 4621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4622: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4623: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4624: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4625:
1.157 louis 4626: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4627: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4628: <p>
1.247 jufi 4629: </ul>
1.157 louis 4630:
4631: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4632: <ul>
1.157 louis 4633:
1.247 jufi 4634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4635: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4636: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4637: </strong></font><br>
4638:
4639: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4640: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4641: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4642: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4643: <p>
4644:
1.247 jufi 4645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4646: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4647: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4648: </strong></font><br>
4649:
4650: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4651: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4652: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4653: it because they love coding...
4654: <p>
4655:
1.247 jufi 4656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4657: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4658: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4659: </strong></font><br>
4660:
4661: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4662: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4663: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4664: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4665: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4666: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4667: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4668: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4669: <p>
4670:
1.247 jufi 4671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4672: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4673: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4674: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4675: </strong></font><br>
4676:
4677: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4678: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4679: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4680: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4681: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4682: the pizza.
4683: <p>
4684:
1.247 jufi 4685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4686: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4687: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4688: </strong></font><br>
4689:
4690: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4691: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4692: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4693: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4694: problems.
4695: <p>
4696:
1.247 jufi 4697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.568 ian 4698: <a href="https://osuny.co.uk/txt/zines/napalm/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba
4699: to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
1.154 louis 4700: </strong></font><br>
4701:
1.222 miod 4702: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4703: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4704: - whether they like it or not.
4705: <p>
4706:
1.247 jufi 4707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4708: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4709: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4710: </strong></font><br>
4711:
4712: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4713: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4714: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4715: <p>
1.148 aaron 4716:
1.247 jufi 4717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4718: <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 4719: </strong></font><br>
4720:
4721: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4722: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4723: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4724: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4725: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4726: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4727: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4728: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4729: <p>
4730:
1.247 jufi 4731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4732: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4733: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4734: </strong></font><br>
4735:
4736: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4737: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4738: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4739: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4740: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4741: <p>
1.247 jufi 4742: </ul>
1.147 louis 4743:
1.138 louis 4744: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4745: <ul>
1.138 louis 4746:
1.247 jufi 4747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4748: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4749: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4750: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4751: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4752: </strong></font><br>
4753:
1.227 horacio 4754: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4755: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4756: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4757: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4758: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4759: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4760: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4761: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4762: <p>
4763:
1.247 jufi 4764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4765: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4766: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4767: </strong></font><br>
4768:
4769: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4770: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4771: groups, and even Linux.
4772: <p>
4773:
1.247 jufi 4774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4775: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4776: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4777: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4778: </strong></font><br>
4779:
4780: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4781: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4782: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4783: library after installing the OS.
4784: <p>
4785:
1.247 jufi 4786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4787: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4788: Sys Admin, September 2000
4789: </strong></font><br>
4790:
4791: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4792: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4793: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4794: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4795: (<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>,
4796: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4797: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4798: <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 4799: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4800: out of the system.
4801: <p>
4802:
1.247 jufi 4803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4804: <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
4805: </strong></font><br>
4806:
4807: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4808: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4809: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4810: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4811: the IP filtering and address translation.
4812: <p>
1.301 jose 4813:
4814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4815: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4816: </strong></font><br>
4817:
4818: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4819: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4820: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4821: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4822: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4823: <p>
1.247 jufi 4824: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4825:
1.131 louis 4826: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4827: <ul>
1.131 louis 4828:
1.247 jufi 4829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4830: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4831: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4832: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4833: </strong></font><br>
4834:
4835: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4836: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4837: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4838: <p>
4839:
1.247 jufi 4840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4841: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4842: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4843: </strong></font><br>
4844:
4845: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4846: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4847: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4848: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4849: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4850: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4851: note of"</i>.
4852: <p>
4853:
1.247 jufi 4854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4855: <a
1.247 jufi 4856: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4857: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4858: </strong></font><br>
4859:
4860: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4861: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4862: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4863: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4864: <p>
4865:
1.247 jufi 4866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4867: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4868: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4869: </strong></font><br>
4870:
4871: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4872: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4873: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4874: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4875: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4876: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4877: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4878: <p>
4879:
1.247 jufi 4880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4881: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4882: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4883: 2000
4884: </strong></font><br>
4885:
4886: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4887: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4888: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4889: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4890: against current industry practices.
4891: <p>
4892:
1.247 jufi 4893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4894: <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
4895: </strong></font><br>
4896:
4897: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4898: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4899: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4900: <p>
4901:
1.247 jufi 4902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4903: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4904: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4905: </strong></font><br>
4906:
4907: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4908: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4909: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4910: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4911: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4912: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4913: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4914: <p>
4915:
1.247 jufi 4916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4917: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4918: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4919: </strong></font><br>
4920:
4921: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4922: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4923: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4924: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4925: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4926: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4927: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4928: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4929: <p>
1.247 jufi 4930: </ul>
1.131 louis 4931:
1.118 louis 4932: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4933: <ul>
1.118 louis 4934:
1.247 jufi 4935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4936: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4937: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4938: </strong></font><br>
4939:
4940: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4941: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4942: about time. The article mentions that
4943: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4944: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4945: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4946: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4947: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4948: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4949: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4950: <p>
4951:
1.247 jufi 4952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4953: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4954: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4955: </strong></font><br>
4956:
4957: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4958: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4959: of OpenSSH.
4960: <p>
4961:
1.247 jufi 4962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4963: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4964: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4965: </strong></font><br>
4966:
4967: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4968: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4969: bridging.
4970: <p>
4971:
1.247 jufi 4972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4973: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4974: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4975: </strong></font><br>
4976:
1.121 deraadt 4977: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4978: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4979: <p>
4980:
1.247 jufi 4981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4982: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4983: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4984: </strong></font><br>
4985:
4986: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4987: <p>
4988:
1.247 jufi 4989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4990: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4991: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4992: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4993: </strong></font><br>
4994:
1.120 deraadt 4995: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4996: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4997: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4998: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4999: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
5000: <p>
5001:
1.247 jufi 5002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 5003: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
5004: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
5005: </strong></font><br>
5006:
1.222 miod 5007: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 5008: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
5009: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
5010: protocols and their quirks.
5011: <p>
5012:
1.247 jufi 5013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5014: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
5015: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 5016: </strong></font><br>
5017:
5018: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
5019: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
5020: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 5021: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 5022: <p>
5023:
1.247 jufi 5024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 5025: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
5026: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
5027: </strong></font><br>
5028:
5029: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
5030: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
5031: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
5032: <p>
5033:
1.247 jufi 5034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 5035: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 5036: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
5037: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 5038: </strong></font><br>
5039:
5040: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
5041: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
5042: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
5043: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
5044: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
5045: <p>
1.247 jufi 5046: </ul>
1.118 louis 5047:
1.104 louis 5048: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5049: <ul>
1.104 louis 5050:
1.247 jufi 5051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 5052: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
5053: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
5054: </strong></font><br>
5055:
5056: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
5057: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
5058: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
5059: be a bit dry.
5060: <p>
5061:
1.247 jufi 5062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 5063: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
5064: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
5065: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
5066: </strong></font><br>
5067: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
5068: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
5069: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
5070: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
5071: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
5072: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
5073: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
5074: <p>
5075:
1.247 jufi 5076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5077: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
5078: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 5079: 2000
1.128 louis 5080: </strong></font><br>
5081:
5082: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
5083: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
5084: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
5085: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
5086: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 5087: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 5088: <p>
5089:
1.247 jufi 5090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5091: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
5092: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 5093: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 5094:
5095: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
5096: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
5097: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
5098: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 5099: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
5100: <p>
1.110 louis 5101:
1.247 jufi 5102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 5103: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
5104: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
5105: </strong></font><br>
5106:
5107: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
5108: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
5109: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
5110: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
5111: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
5112: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
5113: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
5114: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
5115: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
5116: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
5117: <p>
5118:
1.247 jufi 5119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 5120: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5121: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 5122:
5123: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
5124: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 5125: <p>
1.108 louis 5126:
1.247 jufi 5127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 5128: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
5129: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 5130: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 5131:
5132: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
5133: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
5134: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 5135: <p>
1.106 louis 5136:
1.247 jufi 5137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 5138: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
5139: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 5140: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 5141:
5142: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
5143: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
5144: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
5145: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 5146: <p>
1.107 louis 5147:
1.247 jufi 5148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5149: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
5150: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5151: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 5152:
5153: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
5154: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 5155: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 5156: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
5157: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 5158: <p>
1.105 louis 5159:
1.247 jufi 5160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 5161: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 5162: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 5163: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 5164:
1.113 naddy 5165: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
5166: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 5167: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 5168: <p>
1.104 louis 5169:
1.247 jufi 5170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5171: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
5172: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
5173: </strong></font><br>
5174:
5175: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
5176: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
5177: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
5178: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
5179: <p>
1.301 jose 5180:
5181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5182: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.577 tobias 5183: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
1.301 jose 5184: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
5185:
5186: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
5187: hardware-supported cryptography.
5188: <p>
1.247 jufi 5189: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 5190:
1.85 louis 5191: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5192: <ul>
1.85 louis 5193:
1.247 jufi 5194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5195: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 5196: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 5197: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5198:
5199: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
5200: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
5201: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
5202: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
5203: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
5204: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
5205: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 5206: <p>
1.99 louis 5207:
1.247 jufi 5208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5209: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 5210: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5211: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 5212:
5213: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
5214: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
5215: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
5216: conditions.
1.113 naddy 5217: <p>
1.100 louis 5218:
1.247 jufi 5219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5220: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 5221: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5222: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 5223:
5224: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
5225: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
5226: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
5227: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 5228: <p>
1.95 louis 5229:
1.247 jufi 5230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5231: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 5232: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5233: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 5234:
5235: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
5236: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 5237: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 5238: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
5239: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5240: <p>
1.92 louis 5241:
1.247 jufi 5242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5243: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 5244: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5245: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 5246:
5247: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
5248: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
5249: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
5250: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
5251: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
5252: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 5253: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 5254: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 5255: <p>
1.91 louis 5256:
1.247 jufi 5257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5258: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
5259: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 5260: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5261:
5262: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
5263: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
5264: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
5265: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
5266: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
5267: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
5268: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
5269: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
5270: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 5271: <p>
1.90 louis 5272:
1.247 jufi 5273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5274: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
5275: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
5276: </strong></font><br>
5277: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
5278: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
5279: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
5280: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
5281: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
5282: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
5283: <p>
5284:
1.247 jufi 5285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 5286: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
5287: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5288: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 5289:
1.113 naddy 5290: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
5291: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 5292: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
5293: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
5294: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
5295: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
5296: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 5297: <p>
1.87 louis 5298:
1.247 jufi 5299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 5300: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
5301: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 5302: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5303:
5304: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 5305: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 5306: <p>
1.85 louis 5307:
1.247 jufi 5308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5309: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
5310: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
5311: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
5312:
5313: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
5314: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
5315: <p>
5316:
5317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 5318: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
5319: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5320: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 5321:
5322: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.577 tobias 5323: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 5324: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
5325: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 5326: <p>
1.89 louis 5327:
1.247 jufi 5328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5329: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 5330: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5331: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5332:
5333: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
5334: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
5335: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
5336: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
5337: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 5338: </ul>
1.85 louis 5339:
1.78 deraadt 5340: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5341: <ul>
1.74 louis 5342:
1.247 jufi 5343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5344: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 5345: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 5346: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 5347: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5348:
5349: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
5350: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
5351: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5352: <p>
1.83 louis 5353:
1.247 jufi 5354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 5355: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
5356: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5357: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 5358:
5359: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
5360: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 5361: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 5362: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
5363: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 5364: <p>
1.93 louis 5365:
1.247 jufi 5366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5367: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
5368: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
5369: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5370: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 5371:
1.83 louis 5372: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
5373: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
5374: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
5375: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
5376: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 5377: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
5378: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
5379: <p>
1.82 aaron 5380:
1.247 jufi 5381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5382: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 5383: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5384: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 5385:
1.83 louis 5386: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
5387: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
5388: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 5389: <p>
1.80 louis 5390:
1.247 jufi 5391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5392: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 5393: Bad Press</a>,
5394: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 5395: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 5396:
5397: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 5398: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 5399: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
5400: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
5401: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 5402: <p>
1.247 jufi 5403: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 5404:
5405: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5406: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 5407:
1.247 jufi 5408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5409: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
5410: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 5411: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 5412: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 5413:
5414: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
5415: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
5416: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
5417: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 5418: <p>
1.74 louis 5419:
1.247 jufi 5420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 5421: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
5422: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 5423: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5424:
1.219 horacio 5425: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
5426: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
5427: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
5428: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
5429: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
5430: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
5431: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 5432: <p>
1.88 louis 5433:
1.247 jufi 5434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 5435: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 5436: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 5437: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 5438:
5439: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
5440: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
5441: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
5442: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 5443: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 5444: <p>
1.81 louis 5445:
1.247 jufi 5446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5447: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 5448: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5449: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5450:
5451: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
5452: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
5453: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
5454: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
5455: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
5456: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
5457: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 5458: <p>
1.90 louis 5459:
1.247 jufi 5460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5461: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 5462: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5463: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 5464:
5465: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
5466: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
5467: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 5468: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 5469: <p>
1.247 jufi 5470: </ul>
1.71 louis 5471:
1.69 deraadt 5472: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5473: <ul>
1.70 louis 5474:
1.247 jufi 5475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5476: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5477: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5478: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5479:
5480: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5481: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5482: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5483: <p>
1.70 louis 5484:
1.247 jufi 5485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5486: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5487: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5488: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5489:
5490: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5491: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5492: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5493: <p>
1.68 louis 5494:
1.247 jufi 5495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5496: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5497: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5498: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5499: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5500:
1.111 jufi 5501: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5502: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5503: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5504: "secure by default" installation.
5505: <p>
1.64 louis 5506:
1.247 jufi 5507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5508: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5509: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5510: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5511:
1.113 naddy 5512: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5513: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5514: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5515: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5516: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5517: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5518: <p>
1.66 louis 5519:
1.247 jufi 5520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5521: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5522: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5523: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5524:
5525: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5526: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5527: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5528: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5529: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5530: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5531: <p>
1.83 louis 5532:
1.247 jufi 5533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5534: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5535: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5536: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5537:
5538: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5539: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5540: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5541: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5542: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5543: <p>
1.64 louis 5544:
1.247 jufi 5545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5546: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5547: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5548: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5549:
5550: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5551: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5552: <p>
1.301 jose 5553:
5554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5555: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5556: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5557: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5558: </strong></font><br>
5559:
5560: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5561: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5562: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5563: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5564: Giving way to
5565: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5566: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5567: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5568: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5569: <p>
1.247 jufi 5570: </ul>
1.65 louis 5571:
1.69 deraadt 5572: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5573: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5574:
1.247 jufi 5575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5576: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5577: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5578: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5579:
5580: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5581: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5582: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5583: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5584: <p>
1.88 louis 5585:
1.247 jufi 5586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5587: <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 5588: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5589:
5590: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5591: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5592: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5593: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5594: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5595: <p>
1.60 louis 5596:
1.247 jufi 5597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5598: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5599: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5600: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5601: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5602:
5603: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5604: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5605: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5606: <p>
1.58 louis 5607:
1.247 jufi 5608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5609: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5610: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5611:
5612: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5613: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5614: <p>
1.53 louis 5615:
1.247 jufi 5616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5617: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5618: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5619: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5620:
5621: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5622: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5623: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5624: <p>
1.99 louis 5625:
1.247 jufi 5626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5627: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5628: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5629:
5630: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5631: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5632: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5633: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5634: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5635:
1.247 jufi 5636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5637: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5638: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5639: </strong></font><br>
5640:
5641: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5642: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5643: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5644: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5645: <p>
5646:
1.247 jufi 5647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5648: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5649: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5650: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5651:
5652: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5653: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5654: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5655:
1.247 jufi 5656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5657: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5658: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5659:
5660: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5661: in
1.247 jufi 5662: <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 5663: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5664: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5665: <p>
1.53 louis 5666:
1.247 jufi 5667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5668: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5669: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5670: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5671: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5672:
1.58 louis 5673: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5674: <p>
1.301 jose 5675:
5676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5677: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5678: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5679: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5680: Informacyjny, January 2000
5681: </strong></font><br>
5682:
5683: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5684: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5685: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5686: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5687: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5688: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5689: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5690: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5691: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5692: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5693: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5694: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5695: <p>
5696:
5697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5698: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5699: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5700: </strong></font><br>
5701:
5702: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5703: <p>
5704: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5705:
1.69 deraadt 5706: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5707: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5708:
1.247 jufi 5709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5710: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5711: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5712: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5713: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5714:
1.58 louis 5715: Kurt Seifried
5716: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5717: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5718: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5719: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5720:
1.247 jufi 5721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5722: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5723: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5724: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5725:
5726: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5727: <p>
1.96 louis 5728:
1.247 jufi 5729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5730: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5731: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5732: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5733: </strong></font><br>
5734:
5735: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5736: <p>
5737:
5738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5739: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5740: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5741: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5742:
5743: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5744: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5745: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5746: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5747: <p>
1.247 jufi 5748: </ul>
1.86 louis 5749:
1.69 deraadt 5750: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5751: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5752:
1.247 jufi 5753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5754: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5755: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5756: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5757:
5758: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5759: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5760: <p>
1.61 louis 5761:
1.247 jufi 5762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5763: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5764: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5765: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5766: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5767:
5768: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5769: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5770: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5771: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5772: right -- or at least strives to".
5773: <p>
1.48 louis 5774:
1.247 jufi 5775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5776: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5777: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5778: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5779: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5780: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5781: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5782: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5783: <p>
1.61 louis 5784:
1.247 jufi 5785: <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 5786: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5787: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5788:
5789: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5790: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5791: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5792: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5793: <p>
1.46 louis 5794:
1.247 jufi 5795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5796: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5797: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5798: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5799:
5800: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5801: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5802: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5803:
1.247 jufi 5804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5805: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5806: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5807: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5808:
5809: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5810: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5811: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5812: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5813: <p>
1.247 jufi 5814: </ul>
1.70 louis 5815:
1.69 deraadt 5816: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5817: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5818:
1.247 jufi 5819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5820: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5821: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5822: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5823: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5824:
5825: Kurt Seifried
5826: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5827: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5828: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5829: <p>
1.44 philen 5830:
1.247 jufi 5831: <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 5832: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5833: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5834:
5835: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5836: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5837:
1.247 jufi 5838: <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 5839: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5840: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5841:
5842: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5843: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5844:
1.247 jufi 5845: <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 5846: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5847: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5848:
5849: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5850: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5851: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5852: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5853: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5854:
1.247 jufi 5855: <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 5856: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5857: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5858:
1.36 louis 5859: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5860: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5861:
1.247 jufi 5862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5863: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5864: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5865: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5866:
5867: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5868: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5869: </ul>
1.38 louis 5870:
1.69 deraadt 5871: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5872: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5873:
1.247 jufi 5874: <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 5875: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5876: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5877:
5878: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5879: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5880: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5881:
1.113 naddy 5882: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5883: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5884: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5885: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5886:
5887: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5888: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5889: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5890: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5891: <blockquote>
5892: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5893: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5894: <br>
5895: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5896: </code>
5897: </blockquote>
5898: <p>
5899:
1.247 jufi 5900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5901: <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 5902: <p>
5903:
5904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5905: <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 5906: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5907:
5908: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5909: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5910: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5911: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5912:
1.247 jufi 5913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5914: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5915: Sept. 28, 1999
5916: </strong></font><br>
5917:
5918: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5919: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5920: translating and reprinting articles from
5921: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5922: <p>
5923:
5924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5925: <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 5926: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5927:
5928: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5929: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5930: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5931: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5932: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5933: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5934: <p>
1.19 louis 5935:
1.113 naddy 5936: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5937: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5938: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5939:
5940: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5941: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5942: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5943: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5944: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5945: <p>
1.16 louis 5946:
1.247 jufi 5947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5948: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5949: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5950: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5951:
1.57 louis 5952: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5953: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5954: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5955: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5956:
1.247 jufi 5957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5958: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5959: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5960: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5961:
1.113 naddy 5962: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5963:
1.247 jufi 5964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5965: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5966: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5967: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5968:
1.23 louis 5969: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5970: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5971: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5972: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5973: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5974: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5975:
1.247 jufi 5976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5977: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5978: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5979: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5980:
1.199 pvalchev 5981: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5982: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5983: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5984: installation.
1.113 naddy 5985: <p>
1.47 louis 5986:
1.247 jufi 5987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5988: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5989: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5990: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5991:
1.301 jose 5992: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5993: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5994: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5995: </ul>
1.57 louis 5996:
1.69 deraadt 5997: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5998: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5999:
1.247 jufi 6000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 6001: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 6002: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 6003: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 6004:
6005: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
6006: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 6007: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6008: <p>
1.12 louis 6009:
1.247 jufi 6010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 6011: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 6012: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 6013: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 6014:
6015: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
6016: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 6017: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
6018: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
6019: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
6020: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
6021: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 6022: <p>
1.247 jufi 6023: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 6024:
1.69 deraadt 6025: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6026: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 6027:
1.247 jufi 6028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 6029: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 6030: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 6031:
6032: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
6033: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
6034: available."
1.113 naddy 6035: <p>
1.301 jose 6036:
6037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6038: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
6039: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
6040: </strong></font><br>
6041:
6042: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
6043: <p>
1.247 jufi 6044: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 6045:
1.69 deraadt 6046: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6047: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6048:
1.247 jufi 6049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 6050: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 6051: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 6052:
6053: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
6054: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
6055: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
6056: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
6057: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 6058: <p>
1.33 louis 6059:
1.247 jufi 6060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6061: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 6062: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 6063: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6064:
1.113 naddy 6065: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
6066: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 6067: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
6068: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
6069: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 6070: <p>
1.247 jufi 6071: </ul>
1.57 louis 6072:
1.69 deraadt 6073: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6074: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6075:
1.247 jufi 6076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6077: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 6078: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 6079: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6080:
6081: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
6082: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 6083: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6084:
1.247 jufi 6085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 6086: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
6087: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
6088: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 6089: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 6090:
6091: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 6092: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 6093:
1.247 jufi 6094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6095: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6096:
1.113 naddy 6097: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 6098:
1.247 jufi 6099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6100: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 6101: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 6102: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6103:
6104: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 6105: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 6106: </ul>
1.23 louis 6107:
1.69 deraadt 6108: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6109: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6110:
1.247 jufi 6111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 6112: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 6113: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6114:
6115: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
6116: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 6117: <p>
1.2 deraadt 6118:
1.247 jufi 6119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6120: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 6121: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 6122: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6123:
6124: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
6125: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 6126: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 6127: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 6128: </ul>
1.57 louis 6129:
1.69 deraadt 6130: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6131: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6132:
1.247 jufi 6133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6134: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 6135: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 6136: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 6137:
6138: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
6139: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
6140: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
6141: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6142: <p>
1.15 louis 6143:
1.247 jufi 6144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6145: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
6146: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 6147: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6148:
6149: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
6150: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
6151: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
6152: columns."
1.113 naddy 6153: <p>
1.247 jufi 6154: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6155:
1.69 deraadt 6156: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6157: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6158:
1.247 jufi 6159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6160: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 6161: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 6162: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 6163:
6164: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 6165: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 6166:
1.113 naddy 6167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6168: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 6169: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6170:
6171: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
6172: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 6173: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 6174: </ul>
1.57 louis 6175:
1.69 deraadt 6176: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6177: <ul>
1.301 jose 6178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6179: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
6180: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6181: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
6182:
6183: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
6184: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
6185: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
6186: <p>
6187:
6188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6189: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
6190: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6191: Nov 13, 1998 and
6192: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
6193: Datateknik</a>,
6194: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
6195:
1.380 saad 6196: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 6197: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
6198: explains the licensing issues and points to our
6199: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
6200: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6201:
1.113 naddy 6202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6203: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 6204: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 6205: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6206:
1.222 miod 6207: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 6208: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
6209: Implementation, including a brief interview with
6210: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 6211: <p>
1.247 jufi 6212: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6213:
1.69 deraadt 6214: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6215: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6216:
1.247 jufi 6217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6218: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 6219: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6220:
1.69 deraadt 6221: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
6222: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 6223: <p>
1.247 jufi 6224: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6225:
1.69 deraadt 6226: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6227: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 6228:
1.247 jufi 6229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6230: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
6231: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 6232: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6233:
1.383 jcs 6234: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 6235: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 6236: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6237:
1.247 jufi 6238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 6239: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 6240: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
6241: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 6242: <p>
1.247 jufi 6243: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6244:
1.69 deraadt 6245: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6246: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6247:
1.247 jufi 6248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6249: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 6250: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
6251: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 6252: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 6253: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6254:
6255: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
6256: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
6257: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 6258: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 6259: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 6260: <p>
1.247 jufi 6261: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 6262:
6263: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6264: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6265:
1.247 jufi 6266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6267: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 6268: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 6269:
1.69 deraadt 6270: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
6271: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 6272: <p>
1.112 naddy 6273:
1.247 jufi 6274: </ul>
1.113 naddy 6275: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6276:
1.292 camield 6277: <hr>
1.216 horacio 6278: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 6279: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.581 ! ian 6280: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.580 2008/03/05 20:55:10 tobias Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 6281:
6282: </body>
6283: </html>