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1.590 ! ian 19: <h2>March, 2011</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
! 22: <a href='http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/?p=605'>
! 23: My OpenBSD Story: Memories of a Network disaster</a>
! 24: Blather.MichaelWLucas.com, March 9, 2011
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: It was a dark and stormy night back in 2000, a very long night, as Michael Lucas (who would later author
! 27: Absolute OpenBSD) struggled to get his company's hosting service back online.
! 28: You can probably guess that the happy ending involves "OpenBSD to the rescue".
! 29: <p>
! 30:
! 31: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
! 32: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/14202/original/The_Wonders_Of_Blender_BSD_03_2011.pdf'>
! 33: How To Setup OpenBSD On The Embedded Alix</a>,
! 34: BSD Mag, March, 2011, p. 30
! 35: </strong></font>(PDF download)<br>
! 36: Guillaume Duale tells how to install our favorite OS on the popular embedded-size ALIX card.
! 37: <p>
! 38:
! 39: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
! 40: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/14202/original/The_Wonders_Of_Blender_BSD_03_2011.pdf'>
! 41: Run Your Phone System on OpenBSD</a>,
! 42: BSD Mag, March, 2011, p. 12
! 43: </strong></font>(PDF download)<br>
! 44: Ian Darwin describes running some home/office telephone systems on Asterisk
! 45: on a secure operating system - what works, what doesn't (and why),
! 46: and how to get started.
! 47: <p>
! 48:
! 49: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
! 50: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/14202/original/The_Wonders_Of_Blender_BSD_03_2011.pdf'>
! 51: Useful OpenBSD Tools</a>,
! 52: BSD Mag, March, 2011, p. 42
! 53: </strong></font>(PDF download)<br>
! 54: Girish Venkatachalam describes a panoply of tools that he finds useful on OpenBSD, to wit,
! 55: dump(8) and restore(8), qemu, sha1, ifconfig, relayd and spamd.
! 56: <p>
! 57:
! 58: </ul>
! 59:
! 60: <h2>February, 2011</h2>
! 61: <ul>
! 62: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
! 63: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/'>
! 64: Your OpenBSD Story</a>
! 65: undeadly.org, February, 2011
! 66: </strong></font><br>
! 67: Undeadly is running a series of stories on how people got started with OpenBSD.
! 68: Most tell what they like about the system.
! 69: Since OpenBSD runs well on minimal hardware, many of the stories involve
! 70: solving an under-funding crisis at startups.
! 71: See those by
! 72: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110227014419'> Daniel Gracia</a>,
! 73: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110303020219'> Nick Humphrey</a>, and
! 74: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110308003706'> Henrik Kramshoe</a>
! 75: <p>
! 76:
! 77: </ul>
! 78:
! 79: <h2>January, 2011</h2>
! 80: <ul>
! 81: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
! 82: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/13827/original/BSDs_and_Solaris_BSD_01_2011.pdf'>
! 83: Text Terminal magic with tmux</a>
! 84: BSD Mag, January, 2011, p. 20
! 85: </strong></font>(PDF download)<br>
! 86: Tmux(1) is OpenBSD's replacement for GNU screen(1) terminal multiplexor.
! 87: Girish Venkatachalam discusses tmux's advantages and how to use it.
! 88: <p>
! 89:
! 90:
! 91: </ul>
! 92:
! 93:
1.589 ian 94: <h2>December, 2010</h2>
95: <ul>
96: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
97: <a href='http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4833'>
98: Use firewall software like PF to protect your desktop systems</a>
99: techrepublic.com, December 13, 2010
100: </strong></font><br>
101: A good overview of the importance of using a firewall for the semi-technical crowd.
102: "One of the most highly regarded suites of firewall software is the OpenBSD project's PF,
103: which has been ported to every major BSD Unix system..."
104: Gives a single example of a pf rules file; one of the comments gives
105: links to additional references.
106: <p>
107:
108: </ul>
109:
1.586 ian 110: <h2>November, 2010</h2>
111: <ul>
112:
113: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
114: <a href='http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODc0NA'>
115: OpenBSD 4.8 Brings Improved Hardware Support</a>
116: www.phoronix.com, November 1, 2010
117: </strong></font><br>
118: Good coverage of the release: new drivers, new features, and more.
119: <p>
120:
121: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
122: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20101101163826'>
123: OpenBSD 4.8 Released!</a>
124: www.undeadly.org, November 1, 2010
125: </strong></font><br>
126: Undeadly mentions the release; this article has a full list of the
127: enhancements and improvements.
128: <p>
129:
130: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
131: <a href='http://www.osnews.com/story/23978/OpenBSD_4_8_Released'>
132: OpenBSD 4.8 Released</a>
1.587 ian 133: www.osnews.com, November 1, 2010
1.586 ian 134: </strong></font><br>
135: OSNews again is one of the first out with coverage of the 4.8 release,
136: although it's just a summary this time out.
137: <p>
138:
139: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
140: <a href='http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=openbsd'>
141: DistroWatch.com: OpenBSD</a>
142: distrowatch.com, November 1, 2010
143: </strong></font><br>
144: DistroWatch has a list of many links related to OpenBSD,
145: and have updated their site to reflect the 4.8 release.
146: <p>
147:
148: </ul>
1.584 jasper 149:
150: <h2>September, 2009</h2>
151: <ul>
152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
153: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1393496">
154: Security in your pocket: OpenBSD on ARM</a>, informIT, September 11, 2009
155: </strong></font><br>
156: Interview with Dale Rahn (drahn@) about OpenBSD on ARM handheld systems and
157: why users and vendors should consider it as a real alternative.
158: <p>
159: </ul>
160:
1.582 grunk 161: <h2>January, 2009</h2>
162: <ul>
163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
164: [GERMAN]
165: <a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre105.html">
166: OpenBSD -- Technik und Entwicklerkultur des alternativen Betriebssystems
167: </a>, Chaosradio Express, January 28, 2009</strong></font><br>
168: OpenBSD developer Felix Kronlage (fkr@openbsd.org) in interview
169: with Chaosradio Express host Tim Pritlove from the Chaos Computer Club.
170: <p>
171: </ul>
172:
1.581 ian 173: <h2>April, 2008</h2>
174: <ul>
175:
176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
177: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/19700/OpenBSD_4.3_Released">
178: OpenBSD 4.3 Released</a>, OSNews, April 30, 2008
179: </strong></font><br>
180: OSNews is among the first to mention the newest release:
181: "Theo de Raadt has lifted the veil off OpenBSD 4.3. <i>We are pleased
182: to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.3. This is our 23nd
183: release on CD-ROM (and 24rd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's
184: record of more than ten years with only two remote holes in the
185: default install.</i> Boasting as always, but when it's justified,
186: arrogance is a virtue."
187: <p>
188:
189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
190: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2008/04/29/puffy-and-the-crytonauts-whats-new-in-openbsd-43.html">
191: Puffy and the Cryptonauts: What's New in OpenBSD 4.3</a>, onLamp, April 29, 2008
192: </strong></font><br>
193: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD developers
194: about the changes in the 4.3 release, providing a more comprehensive overview
195: than others.
196: Topics range across
197: networking (including new and improved drivers, and our own SNMP implementation),
198: storage (faster flash, bigger disk support),
199: platforms (Sparc64 SMP, audio drivers),
200: kernel improvements, malloc support, read/write cleanups, and much more.
201: <p>
202:
203: </ul>
204:
1.573 ian 205: <h2>November, 2007</h2>
206: <ul>
207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.574 ian 208: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/87">
209: Using OpenBSD 4.2</a>, Software In Review, November 5, 2007
210: </strong></font><br>
211: Jem Matzem advocates using OpenBSD and shows readers how to get
212: started and some hints on using the system after it's installed,
213: including setting up ports/packages to use third-party software.
214: Under the "For More Information" category, he acknowledges that
215: "OpenBSD has the most thorough, easy to follow native documentation
216: of any Unix-like operating system..."
217: <p>
218:
219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
220: <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/a_few_cheers_fo.html">
221: A Few Cheers For OpenBSD</a>, Information Week, November 2, 2007
222: </strong></font><br>
223: "With all of the hollering about Linux..., there's another open-source
224: operating system that just celebrated getting a new 4.2 release out
225: the door. It's one that hasn't been quite as widely-celebrated as
226: Linux but is still deeply important in its own way: OpenBSD"
227: Talks about how BSD is real UNIX, and what that means, and our
228: security policy "secure by default".
229: Ends with a reminder that Linux is
230: "not the only open-source, Unix-like game in town."
231: <p>
232:
233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.573 ian 234: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/7155">
235: Puffy's Marathon: What's New in OpenBSD 4.2</a>, onLamp, Nov 1, 2007
236: </strong></font><br>
237: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed almost two dozen OpenBSD developers
238: and combined their comments into this interview. Opens with:
239: "...this release comes with some amazing performance improvements: basic
240: benchmarks showed PF being twice as fast, a rewrite of the TLB
241: shootdown code for i386 and amd64 cut the time to do a full package
242: build by 20 percent (mostly because all the forks in configure
243: scripts have become much cheaper), and the improved frequency scaling
244: on MP systems can help save nearly 20 percent of battery power.
245: <p>
246: "And then the new features: FFS2, support for the Advanced Host
247: Controller Interface, IP balancing in CARP, layer 7 manipulation
248: with hoststated, Xenocara, and more!"
249: <p>
250: And goes on to discuss each of these and more with the good folk
251: who make it happen.
252: <p>
253:
254: </ul>
255:
1.572 ian 256: <h2>July, 2007</h2>
257: <ul>
258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
259: <a href="http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/797/openbsd-encrypted-nas-howto">
1.578 ian 260: OpenBSD Encrypted NAS How-To</a>, geektechnique.org, July 15, 2007
1.572 ian 261: </strong></font><br>
262: Mark Hoekstra gives a detailed step-by-step description of how to
263: build an encrypted
264: network storage box using off-the-shelf hardware and OpenBSD software.
265: <br>
266: Also reported in
267: <a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/07/16/002203.shtml">SlashDot
268: </a> and
269: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/news.php?id=14877">net-security</a>.
270: <p>
271:
272: </ul>
273:
1.569 ian 274: <h2>May, 2007</h2>
275: <ul>
276:
277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.570 simon 278: [GERMAN]
279: OpenBSD 4.1 bietet Lastverteilung auf Layer 7,
280: iX magazine, May 18, 2007
281: </strong></font><br>
282: The German IT magazine iX reviews the new hoststated(8) Host Status Daemon that
283: comes with OpenBSD 4.1. The article describes various configurations including
284: SSL acceleration and gives a good insight into what hoststated(8) can do for the
285: reader.
286: <p>
287:
288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.569 ian 289: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html">
290: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again</a>, ONLamp, May 5, 2007
291: </strong></font><br>
292: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a number of developers about the major
293: changes in 4.1: Mark Kettenis on UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC T1;
294: Otto Moerbeek on the landisk port and fsck_ffs;
295: Artur Grabowski on rthreads and AMD64 timekeeping;
296: Kurt Miller on pthreads and, with Robert Nagy, on OpenOffice;
297: Marc Espie on the changes "under the hood" in
298: the package tools and on the new pkg_config;
299: Matthieu Herrb on our new X11 build system xenocara,
1.575 tobias 300: Henning Brauer on syslogd, hoststated and RSTP;
1.569 ian 301: Henning and Claudio Jeker on a variety of topics in routing and PF;
302: Bob Beck on spam fighting;
303: and Jonathan Gray on WEP and on why authpf is better than WPA/WPA2.
304: Quite readable overview of some of the main issues in this release.
1.582 grunk 305: <br>
306: Linked to from
1.569 ian 307: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17851/OpenBSD-4.1-Puffy-Strikes-Again/">OSNews</a>.
308: Mentions of the release also appeared in
309: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1483">Tectonic</a>,
310: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/07/05/02/1320248.shtml">Newsforge</a>
311: and
312: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/07/05/01/2231229.shtml">SlashDot</a>
313: (the latter two include pointers to official release announcements).
314: <p>
315:
316: </ul>
317:
1.565 ian 318: <h2>April, 2007</h2>
319: <ul>
320:
321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
322: <a href="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1522252">
323: Reducing spam with OpenBSD and spamd</a>, Linux.com, April 11, 2007
324: </strong></font><br>
325: This is the first installment of a multi-part article on using OpenBSD's
326: anti-spam tools. This part contains a general overview of spamd, greylisting
327: and tarpitting. Later installments will cover the how-to details.
328: <p>
329:
330:
331: </ul>
332:
1.560 ian 333: <h2>March, 2007</h2>
334: <ul>
335:
336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.564 ian 337: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/bsdtalk105-intro-to-pf-with-jason-dixon.html">
338: Introduction to PF with Jason Dixon</a>, BSDTalk 105, March 26, 2007
339: </strong></font><br>
340: Jason provides a nice general overview of OpenBSD's Packet Filter PF,
341: emphasizing the "why" rather than the "how" of using PF.
342: Goes over pf's history, initial setup, stateful filtering,
343: normalization with "scrub", use of synproxy, authpf,
344: CARP and pfsync, GUI configurations vs config files, the pfsense project,
1.576 martynas 345: logging, transparent bridges, AltQ queuing, macros, lists and tables,
1.579 ian 346: and the tie-in to spamd.
1.564 ian 347: <p>
348:
349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.582 grunk 350: <a href="http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=30120&hilite=">
1.560 ian 351: Welsh Government Agency demonstrates Open Source best practice</a>,
352: SourceWire, March 8, 2007
353: </strong></font><br>
1.562 ian 354: The Countryside Council for Wales, the UK Government's regional wildlife
355: conservation authority for Wales, has hired UK Open Source service provider Sirius
1.561 saad 356: Corporation to extend OpenBSD's interoperability with the proprietary
357: Cisco IOS software; part of the agreement calls for Sirius to contribute
358: its source changes back to the OpenBSD project.
1.560 ian 359: <p>
360:
361: </ul>
1.558 ian 362:
1.556 matthieu 363: <h2>February, 2007</h2>
364: <ul>
365:
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.558 ian 367: <a href="http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/is_symantecs_vista_security_assessment_credible.html">
368: Is Symantec's Vista Security Assessment Credible?</a>, Microsoft Watch, February 28, 2007
369: </strong></font><br>
370: This paper is nominally about the relationship between Symantec and Microsoft,
371: talking about a white paper released by the former.
372: But it's quite revealing about Microsoft itself.
373: "Even Microsoft... now acknowledges that UAC (User Account Control) -
374: Vista's most [high-]profile security feature - is vulnerable to subversion,
375: particularly through social-engineering tactics."
376: And while the Symantec report says some good things about Vista security,
377: "its criticisms are brutal - for their clarity and foreboding:
378: <blockquote>
379: "Many of the technologies that Microsoft has employed to bolster
380: the security of Windows Vista are not new. In fact, most are
381: derived from the groundwork originally laid by open-source
382: operating systems such as Linux and OpenBSD, the PaX and
383: Stackguard projects, as well as numerous academic publications....
384: The majority of these technologies first appeared in Windows
385: XP SP2 [Service Pack 2]. Windows XP SP2, at the time of its
386: release, was also billed as the most secure version of Windows."
387: </blockquote>
388: So remember, folks, if it's about security, you may well have heard it
389: here first, long before Microsoft "invented" it.
390: <p>
391:
392:
393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.557 reyk 394: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85495">
395: OpenBSD und Linux: Kritik an Stillhalteabkommen für Treiberentwicklung</a>, heise online, February 2, 2007
396: </strong></font><br>
397:
398: Short article about OpenBSD's clear statement against device driver
399: development under non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
400: It attempts to summarize the reaction of the OpenBSD community against the
401: <a href="http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html">"Free Linux Driver Development"</a>
402: under NDA offered by the linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman which previously raised some
403: discussion.
404: Code written under NDA will make it difficult to improve it in the future
405: because somebody signed an agreement to keep the required hardware
406: documentation secret. For the OpenBSD project
407: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html">NDAs are never acceptable</a>.
408: <p>
409:
410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.556 matthieu 411: [FRENCH]
412: <a href="http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?produit=462">GNU/Linux
413: Magazine France</a> special issue number 29
414: </strong></font>
415: is dedicated to BSD systems. It features several articles about
416: OpenBSD: a pf tutorial, an article on IPSec and two articles on
417: high-availability with pf and CARP and with dynamic routing protocols
418: using OpenOSPFd and OpenBGPd.
419: <p>
420:
421: </ul>
422:
1.558 ian 423: <h2>January, 2007</h2>
424: <ul>
425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
426: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html">
427: Greylisting with PF</a>, O'Reilly onLAMP, January 18, 2007
428: </strong></font><br>
429: This onLAMP article by Dan Langille leads you through the process of
1.559 ian 430: setting up greylisting using OpenBSD's pf and spamd, which has now been ported
1.558 ian 431: to most other BSD systems. The article is
432: quite detailed, but readers should ignore the FreeBSD-specific stuff
433: like kldload (OpenBSD uses modload, but, OpenBSD always has pf built-in
434: so you don't need this). Parts of the article are based on Bob Beck's
435: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/speakers#Beck">spamd talk at NYCBSDCon</a>.
436: <p>
437:
438: </ul>
439:
1.550 mbalmer 440: <h2>December, 2006</h2>
441: <ul>
442:
443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.554 reyk 444: [GERMAN]
445: <a href="http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=15206">
446: 23C3: Interview mit Henning und Reyk von OpenBSD</a>,
447: Radio Unerhört Marbug, December 29, 2006
448: </strong></font><br>
449: Interview with Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter about OpenBSD and
450: the latest changes since 4.0 during the 23rd Chaos Communications
451: Congress in Berlin.
452: <p>
453:
454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.552 ian 455: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/01OPsecadvise_1.html">
1.553 ian 456: New Year's Resolution No. 1: Get OpenBSD</a>,
1.552 ian 457: InfoWorld, December 29, 2006
458: </strong></font><br>
459: InfoWorld's Security Advisor columnist Roger A. Grimes says:
460: "Kick off 2007 with a new, more secure operating system."
461: Citing OpenBSD's code-auditing security process and its
462: excellent security record, Grimes advises readers to give the system a try.
463: Despite repeating some old canards about the "unfriendly" install, he
464: notes favorably that
465: "OpenBSD is shipped secure-by-default, with all non-essential services disabled.
466: You won't find NFS, mountd, or Apache [httpd] enabled by default.
467: The /bin and /sbin folders will be emptier than other Linux or BSD distros.
468: Install OpenBSD and you can be assured that it doesn't default to an insecure state."
469: <p>
470:
471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.551 xsa 472: [GERMAN]
1.550 mbalmer 473: <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2007/01/074/">
474: OpenBSD 4.0 - Kanadische Eröffnung</a>
475: iX magazine, December 14, 2006
476: </strong></font><br>
1.570 simon 477: The German IT magazine iX reviews the 4.0 release of OpenBSD and also mentions
1.550 mbalmer 478: why we don't support blobs and why this is beneficial to our users.
479: The article gives OpenBSD a very good rating for being strictly free software,
480: its swift installation, the support for upgrades, and the large number of
481: platforms and architectures it runs on.
482: <p>
483:
484: </ul>
485:
1.546 ian 486: <h2>November, 2006</h2>
487: <ul>
488:
1.549 ian 489: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
1.582 grunk 490: <a href='http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061110204834'>
1.549 ian 491: Official support for OpenBSD in Parallels Workstation</a>
492: undeadly.org, November 10, 2006
493: </strong></font><br>
494: OpenBSD is now supported by Parallels, a commercial OS
495: virtualization product for Mac OS X, Linux or MS-Windows.
496: In addition to allowing users to run both OpenBSD and one of those other
497: systems concurrently, the announcement means that developers with Intel Mac
498: hardware can run multiple test systems; the Undeadly Editor adds:
499: "I've had up to six OpenBSD guest systems operating simultaneously,
500: versions 3.8 through 4.0 (and -current)."
501: This also reinforces the increasing commercial acceptance of our favorite OS.
502: <p>
503:
504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
505: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/bsdtalk082-openbsd-developer-jason.html">
506: Interview with Jason Wright</a>, BSDTalk 82, November 8, 2006
507: </strong></font><br>
508: Jason talks about the OpenBSD development process (particularly for device drivers
509: and getting hardware documentation from vendors), Sun SPARC hardware (particularly
510: the Ultra III), ham radio (APRS) with OpenBSD, and more.
511: <p>
512:
513: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
514: <a href='http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132572.html'>
515: OpenBSD turns 4.0</a>
516: CNET News.com, November 3, 2006
517: </strong></font><br>
518: Stephen Shankland talks about the UltraSPARC III code in 4.0, and notes that
519: OpenBSD has chosen to stay with stable GCC versions rather than moving to
520: the latest and most bloated GCC versions like Linux did.
521: Quotes Theo as saying: OpenBSD doesn't aim for particular niches,
522: but it's popular in network applications... "The biggest
523: users of OpenBSD these days are people who need our fancy networking
524: features..."
525: <p>
526:
1.546 ian 527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
528: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/55/">
529: OpenBSD 4.0 Review</a>, Software In Review, November 1, 2006
530: </strong></font><br>
531: "In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed
532: back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are
533: almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or
534: months, it's nice to know that at least one operating system releases
535: on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems.
536: OpenBSD 4.0 was released on November 1 with its usual mix of new
537: hardware support and enhanced operating system features."
538: So opens Jem Matzam's review of the new 4.0 release.
539: Jem gives a brief overview of the project, discusses
540: several of the most important new features, evaluates
541: his installation and use of the system on a desktop and a notebook.
1.548 saad 542: He also offers a few recommendations for future developments to make
1.546 ian 543: the project even better.
544: There's even a link to the Wikipedia article on
545: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa">
546: Humppa</a>, for those who may have heard this term but not
547: the music behind it.
548: <p>
549:
1.547 ian 550: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
551: <a href='http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1243'>
552: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today</a>
553: Tectonic, November 1, 2006
554: </strong></font><br>
555: "With his characteristic no-frills approach OpenBSD team leader
556: Theo de Raadt this morning announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0."
557: This article lists the highlights of the 4.0 release and
558: tells readers where to order CD's or download the release.
559: Quotes Theo: ""We are pleased to announce the official release of
560: OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-Rom (and 21st via FTP).
561: We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single
562: remote hole in the default install,"
563: <p>
564:
565: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
566: <a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8123.html'>
567: OpenBSD 4.0 released</a>
568: Ars Technica, November 1, 2006
569: </strong></font><br>
570: A short note about the 4.0 release; refers to the O'ReillyNet article below.
571: <p>
572:
1.546 ian 573: </ul>
574:
1.539 ian 575: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
576: <ul>
1.540 ian 577:
578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.546 ian 579: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6769">
580: OpenBSD 4.0: Pufferix's Adventures</a>, O'Reilly Network, October 26, 2006
581: </strong></font><br>
582: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a dozen and a half developers and compiled
583: the results into this report, all while listening to the obligatory Humppa.
1.548 saad 584: Topics include the new blob-free wireless drivers, pf and pf/dhcp interaction,
1.546 ian 585: CARP demotion, ipsecctl replacing ipsecadm, hardware support for disk/bioctl,
586: USB serial, new installation customization features, ports/packages, RCS, X,
587: CPU support for Sparc/64, AMD/Intel "speed step" techniques, and more.
588: <p>
589:
590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 mbalmer 591: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
592: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
593: </strong></font><br>
594: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
595: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
596: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
597: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
598: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
599: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
600: for his many customers.
601: <p>
602:
603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.544 ian 604: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/olpc-under-fire-for-proprietary-components/">
605: OLPC under fire for proprietary components</a>, Engadget, October 11, 2006
606: </strong></font><br>
607: Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy
608: from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists.
609: Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments:
610: "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children
611: need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented
612: hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to
613: convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about
614: the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you
615: also do."
616: The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside
617: seats already."
618: <p>
619:
620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
621: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/">
622: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row</a>,
623: The Jem Report, October 9, 2006
624: </strong></font><br>
625: Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with
626: Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt.
627: Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in
628: getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware
629: so that users can use hardware they have paid for.
630: Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of
631: the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection,
632: I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts."
633: And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all:
634: "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open;
635: they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd
636: code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end.
637: Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that
638: no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..."
639: <p>
640:
641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.582 grunk 642: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
1.541 ian 643: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
644: </strong></font><br>
645: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
646: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
647: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
648: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
649: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
650: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
651: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 652: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 653: <p>
654:
655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 656: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
657: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
658: </strong></font><br>
659: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
660: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
661: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
1.582 grunk 662: <br>
1.540 ian 663: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
664: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
665: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
666: overflows and vulnerabilities."
1.582 grunk 667: <br>
1.540 ian 668: And, Grimes generalizes,
669: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
670: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
671: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
672: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
673: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
674: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
675: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
676: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
677: happened."
678: Worth reading!
679: <p>
680:
1.539 ian 681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
682: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
683: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
684: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
685: </strong></font><br>
686: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
687: redistributable firmware from Intel.
688: <p>
689:
690: </ul>
691:
1.536 grunk 692: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
693: <ul>
694:
695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 696: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
697: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
698: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
699: </strong></font><br>
700: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
701: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
702: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
703: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
704: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
705: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
706: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
707: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
708: for ages over these chipsets.
709: Quotes Theo as saying:
710: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
711: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
712: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
713: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
714: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
715: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
716: <p>
717:
718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
719: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
720: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
721: </strong></font><br>
722: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
723: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
724: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
725: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
726: <p>
727:
728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 729: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
730: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
731: </strong></font><br>
732: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
733: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
734: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
735: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
736: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
737: <p>
738:
1.537 ian 739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.582 grunk 740: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
1.537 ian 741: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
742: </strong></font><br>
743: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
744: (the official release date is November 1).
745: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
746: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
747: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
748: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
749: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 750: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 751: <p>
752:
1.536 grunk 753: </ul>
754:
1.534 ian 755: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
756: <ul>
757:
758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 759: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
760: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
761: </strong></font><br>
762: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
763: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
764: as a guest operating system under
765: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
766: or "virtualization" system.
767: <p>
768:
769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 770: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
771: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
772: </strong></font><br>
773: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
774: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
775: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
776: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
777: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
778: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
779: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
780: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
781: <p>
782:
783: </ul>
784:
1.531 ian 785: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
786: <ul>
787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
788: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
789: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
790: </strong></font><br>
791: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
792: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
793: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
794: The article quotes Theo as saying
795: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
796: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
797: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
798: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
799: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
800: and describes the funding issues as well.
801: <p>
802:
803: </ul>
804:
1.525 ian 805: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
806: <ul>
807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 808: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 809: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
810: </strong></font><br>
811: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
812: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
813: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
814: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
815: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
816: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
817: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
818: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
819: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
820: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
821: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
822: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
823: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
824: <p>
825:
826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 827: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 828: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
829: </strong></font><br>
830: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
831: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
832: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
833: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
834: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
835: <p>
836:
1.526 ian 837: </ul>
1.525 ian 838:
1.514 ian 839: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
840: <ul>
1.524 ian 841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
842: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
843: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
844: </strong></font><br>
845: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
846: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
847: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
848: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
849: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
850: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
851: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
852: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
853: to make them useful.
854: <p>
1.518 ian 855:
856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 857: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 858: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
859: and
860: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 861: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 862: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 863: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 864: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 865: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
866: their plans for the week.
867: <p>
868:
869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 870: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
871: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
872: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
873: </strong></font><br>
874: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
875: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
876: <p>
877:
878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 879: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
880: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
881: </strong></font><br>
882: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
883: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
884: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
885: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 886: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 887: (introduced with 3.9).
888: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
889: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
890: <p>
891:
892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 893: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
894: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
895: </strong></font><br>
896: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
897: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
898: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
899: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
900: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
901: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
902: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
903: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
904: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
905: <p>
906:
907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
908: [GERMAN]
909: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
910: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
911: </strong></font><br>
912: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
1.580 tobias 913: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peereboom's
1.535 steven 914: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 915: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
916: is connected to OpenBSD.
917: <p>
918:
1.514 ian 919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
920: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
921: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
922: </strong></font><br>
923: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
924: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
925: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 926: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 927: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 928: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 929: running this project) is so important to Theo,
930: and even why he does mountain biking!
931: <p>
932:
933: </ul>
934:
1.503 ian 935: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
936: <ul>
937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 938: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
939: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
940: </strong></font><br>
941: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
942: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
943: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
944: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
945: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
946: <blockquote>
947: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
948: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
949: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
950: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
951: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
952: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
953: </blockquote>
954: This is just plain cool."
955: <p>
956:
957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 958: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
959: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
960: </strong></font><br>
961: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
962: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
963: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 964: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 965: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
966: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
967: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
968: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
969: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
970: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 971: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 972: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
973: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
974: <p>
975:
976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 977: [GERMAN]
978: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
979: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
980: </strong></font><br>
981: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
982: are and why they are bad.
983: <p>
984:
985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 986: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
987: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
988: </strong></font><br>
989: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
990: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
991: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
992: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
993: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
994: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
995: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
996: pages."
997: <p>
998:
999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 1000: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
1001: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
1002: </strong></font><br>
1003: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
1004: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
1005: and continues:
1006: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
1007: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
1008: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
1009: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
1010: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
1011: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
1012: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
1013: and more. Final thought:
1014: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
1015: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
1016: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
1017: true for business environments."
1018: <p>
1019:
1020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 1021: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 1022: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 1023: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 1024: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
1025: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
1026: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 1027: for funding.
1.509 djm 1028: <p>
1029:
1030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 1031: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
1032: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
1033: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
1034: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
1035: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
1036: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
1037: <p>
1038:
1039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 1040: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
1041: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
1042: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
1043: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
1044: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
1045: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
1046: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
1047: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
1048: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
1049: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
1.582 grunk 1050: <br>
1.529 ian 1051: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 1052: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 1053: hostsearch.com</a> and
1054: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
1055: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 1056: <p>
1057:
1058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 1059: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
1060: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
1061: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
1062: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 1063: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 1064: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 1065: is punctuated with examples.
1066: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 1067: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
1068: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 1069: and
1.535 steven 1070: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 1071: <p>
1072:
1073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 1074: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
1075: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
1076: </strong></font><br>
1077: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
1078: further OpenSSH development.
1079: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
1080: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
1081: project's funding needs for all time.
1082: <p>
1.504 bernd 1083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1084: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
1085: April 3, 2006
1086: </strong></font><br>
1087: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
1088: this could compromise future hackathons.
1089: <p>
1.503 ian 1090:
1091: </ul>
1092:
1.487 ian 1093: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
1094: <ul>
1.495 ian 1095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 1096: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 1097: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 1098: </strong></font><br>
1099: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
1100: on topics including "Puffy",
1101: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
1102: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
1103: what's new in 3.9,
1104: and of course project expenses.
1105: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
1106: <!--
1107: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
1108: -->
1109: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
1110: <p>
1111:
1112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 1113: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
1114: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
1115: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 1116: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
1117: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 1118: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
1119: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
1120: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
1121: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
1122: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
1123: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
1124: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
1125: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
1126: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
1127: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
1128: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
1129: but Matzan does - is that
1130: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
1131: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
1132: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
1133: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
1.582 grunk 1134: <br>
1.498 ian 1135: <p>
1136:
1137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1138: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
1139: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
1140: </strong></font><br>
1141: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
1142: "blob" drivers, and more.
1143: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
1144: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
1145: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
1146: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
1147: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
1148: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
1149: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
1150: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
1151: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
1152: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
1153: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
1154: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
1155: <p>
1156:
1157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 1158: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
1159: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
1160: </strong></font><br>
1161: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
1162: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
1163: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
1164: in general temperature and environmental issues.
1165: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
1166: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
1167: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
1168: other major operating systems." ...
1169: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
1170: machines running in
1171: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
1172: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
1173: <p>
1174:
1175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1176: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
1177: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
1178: </strong></font><br>
1179: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
1180: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
1181: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
1182: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
1183: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
1184: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
1185: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
1186: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
1187: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
1188: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
1189: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
1190: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
1191: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
1192: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
1193: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
1194: <p>
1195:
1.487 ian 1196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 1197: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
1198: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
1199: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 1200: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 1201: financial situation.
1202: <p>
1203:
1204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 1205: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
1206: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
1207: </strong></font><br>
1208: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
1209: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
1210: produce our favorite operating system.
1211: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
1212: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
1213: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
1214: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
1215: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.582 grunk 1216: <br>
1.496 ian 1217: Also online at
1218: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
1219: <p>
1220:
1221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1222: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
1223: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
1224: </strong></font><br>
1225: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
1226: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
1227: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
1228: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
1229: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
1230: sustain indefinitely."
1231: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
1232: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
1233: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
1234: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
1235: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 1236: <p>
1237:
1238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 1239: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
1240: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
1241: </strong></font><br>
1242: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
1243: with a reminder that
1244: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
1245: used nowadays almost everywhere."
1246: Ends with this quote from Marco:
1247: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
1248: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
1249: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
1250: <p>
1251:
1252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 1253: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 1254: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
1255: </strong></font><br>
1256: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
1257: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
1258: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
1259: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
1260: a few of them each year.
1261: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
1262: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
1263: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
1264: to the OpenBSD project.
1265: It's time for them to do so.
1266: <p>
1267:
1268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 1269: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
1270: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
1271: </strong></font><br>
1272: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
1273: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
1274: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
1275: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
1276: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
1277: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
1278: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
1279: <p>
1280:
1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 1282: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
1283: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 1284: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
1285: <!-- North America mirror:
1286: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 1287: -->
1.490 deraadt 1288: European mirror:
1289: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
1290: <br>
1291: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 1292: <p>
1293:
1294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 1295: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
1296: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1297: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 1298: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
1299: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
1300: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
1301: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
1302: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
1303: designed to provide reliability and security.
1304: <p>
1305:
1306: </ul>
1307:
1.485 ian 1308: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
1309: <ul>
1310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 1311: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
1312: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1313: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 1314: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 1315: installations in about four minutes flat".
1316: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
1317: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 1318: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 1319: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
1320: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
1321: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
1322: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
1323: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
1324: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
1325: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
1326: the steps in the article.
1327: <p>
1328:
1329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 1330: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
1331: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
1332: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
1333: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
1334: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
1335: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
1336: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
1337: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
1338: happening in real life.
1339: <p>
1340:
1341: </ul>
1342:
1.492 ian 1343: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
1344: <ul>
1345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1346: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
1347: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1348: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
1349: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
1350: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
1351: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 1352: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 1353: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
1354: </ul>
1355:
1.483 ian 1356: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
1357: <ul>
1.555 reyk 1358:
1.483 ian 1359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.555 reyk 1360: [GERMAN]
1361: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/articles/openbsd/064-069_linux-bsd-fw.pdf">
1362: Wehrhaft abtauchen - HA-fähige Firewall mit OpenBSD/PF</a>, Linux-Magazin, December 2005
1363: </strong></font><br>
1364: High available firewall setups are considered as the high arts of network protection.
1365: Due to clustering the network stays online even if one firewall fails. This article
1366: from Stephan A. Rickauer (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University Zurich) shows
1367: how well OpenBSD/PF performs in comparison to the well-known duo Linux/Netfilter.
1368: <p>
1369:
1370: </p></li><li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 1371: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
1372: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1373: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
1374: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
1375: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
1376: <p>
1377:
1378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1379: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 1380: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
1381: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
1382: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
1383: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
1384: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
1385: to sites with more information on most topics.
1386: <p>
1387:
1388: </ul>
1389:
1390:
1.479 grunk 1391: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
1392: <ul>
1393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1394: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 1395: Goes to Venice</a>,
1396: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1397: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 1398: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
1.582 grunk 1399: <br>
1.482 ian 1400: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
1401: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
1402: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 1403: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 1404: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
1405: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
1406: Contains a link to
1407: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
1408: pval's summary slides</a>.
1409: <p>
1410:
1411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 1412: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
1413: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
1414: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
1415: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
1416: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
1417: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
1418: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
1419: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 1420: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 1421: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
1422: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
1423: the packages and ports system"</i>.
1424: <p>
1425:
1426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1427: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
1428: Return of The BSDs</a>,
1429: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1430: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
1431: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
1432: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
1433: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
1434: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
1435: quotes from Bob Beck.
1436: <p>
1437:
1438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 1439: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
1440: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
1441: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 1442: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
1443: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 1444: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
1445: and Linux.<br>
1446: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
1447: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
1448: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
1449: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
1450: of the release
1451: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
1452: <p>
1453: </ul>
1454:
1.476 ian 1455: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
1456: <ul>
1457:
1458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1459: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
1460: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
1461: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
1462: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
1463: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
1464: and too unreliable.
1465: This quote will rattle some cages:
1466: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
1467: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
1468: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
1469: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
1470: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
1471: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
1472: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
1473: costs without any commercial lock-in."
1474: <p>
1475:
1.477 saad 1476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1477: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
1478: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
1479: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1480: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1481: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
1482: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
1483: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
1484: discussion about future plans.
1485: <p>
1486:
1.478 grunk 1487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1488: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
1489: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
1490: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
1491: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
1492: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
1493: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
1494: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
1495: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
1496: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
1497: <p>
1498:
1.476 ian 1499: </ul>
1500:
1.470 saad 1501: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
1502: <ul>
1503:
1504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 1505: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
1506: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
1507: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1508: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
1509: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
1510: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
1511: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
1512: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
1513: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
1514: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
1515: <p>
1516:
1517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 1518: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
1519: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
1520: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
1521: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
1522: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
1523: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
1524: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
1525: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
1526: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
1527: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
1528: <p>
1529:
1530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1531: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
1532: Big debate over small packets</a>,
1533: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
1534: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
1535: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
1536: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
1537: draft.
1538: <p>
1539:
1540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 1541: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
1542: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
1543: ordinateur ?"</a>,
1544: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
1545: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
1546: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
1547: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
1548: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
1549: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
1550: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
1551: <p>
1552:
1553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 1554: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
1555: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
1556: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
1557: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
1558: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
1559: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
1560: performance data with pfstat.
1561: <p>
1562:
1563: </ul>
1564:
1.461 grunk 1565: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
1566: <ul>
1567:
1568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 1569: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
1570: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 1571: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 1572: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
1573: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
1574: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 1575: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 1576: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 1577: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
1578: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
1579: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 1580: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
1581: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 1582: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 1583: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
1584: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 1585: <p>
1586:
1587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 1588: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
1589: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1590: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 1591: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
1592: poor security:
1.467 grunk 1593: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 1594: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 1595: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 1596: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
1597: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
1598: <p>
1599:
1600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 1601: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
1602: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1603: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 1604: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
1605: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 1606: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
1607: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
1608: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
1609: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
1610: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
1611: commercial vendors.
1612: <p>
1613:
1614: </ul>
1615:
1.454 ian 1616: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
1617: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1618:
1619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1620: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1621: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1622: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1623: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1624: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1625: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1626: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1627: <br>
1628: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1629: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1630: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1631: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1632: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1633: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1634: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1635: <p>
1636:
1.454 ian 1637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1638: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1639: Free Bird</a>,
1640: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1641: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1642: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1643: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1644: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1645: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1646: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1647: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1648: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1649: room will only be available in the print edition.
1650: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1651:
1.458 niallo 1652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1653: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1654: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1655: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1656: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1657: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1658: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1659: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1660: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1661: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1662:
1.456 niallo 1663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1664: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1665: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1666: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1667: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1668: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1669: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1670: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1671: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1672: interview.</a>
1673: <p>
1674:
1675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1676: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1677: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1678: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1679: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1680: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1681: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1682: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1683: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1684: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1685: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1686: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1687: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1688: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1689: "I have never used it."
1690: <p>
1691:
1692: </ul>
1693:
1.441 deraadt 1694: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1695: <ul>
1696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1697: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1698: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1699: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1700: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1701: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1702: future enhancements.
1703: <p>
1704:
1705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1706: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1707: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1708: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1709: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1710: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1711: North America mirror:
1712: <ul>
1.452 marco 1713: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1714: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1715: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1716: </ul>
1717: European mirror:
1718: <ul>
1.452 marco 1719: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1720: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1721: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1722: </ul>
1723: <p>
1724:
1725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1726: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1727: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1728: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1729: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1730: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1731: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1732: <p>
1733:
1734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1735: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1736: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1737: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1738: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1739: first-hand account.
1740: <p>
1741:
1742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1743: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1744: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1745: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1746: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1747: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1748: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1749: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1750: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1751: <p>
1752:
1753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1754: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1755: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1756: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1757: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1758: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1759: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1760: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1761: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1762: <p>
1763:
1764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1765: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1766: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1767: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1768: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1769: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1770: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1771: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1772: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1773: <p>
1774:
1775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1776: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1777: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1778: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1779: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1780: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1781: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1782: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1783: <p>
1784:
1785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1786: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1787: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1788: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1789: </strong></font><br>
1790: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1791: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1792: with OpenBSD.
1793: </ul>
1794:
1.436 henning 1795: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1796: <ul>
1797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1798: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1799: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1800: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1801: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1802: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1803: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1804: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1805: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1806: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1807: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1808: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1809: <p>
1810: This article can also be found online as
1811: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1812: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1813: <p>
1814:
1815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1816: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1817: </strong></font><br>
1818: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1819: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
1820: <p>
1821:
1822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1823: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1824: </strong></font><br>
1825: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1826: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1827: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1828: the issues we had with IETF.
1829: </ul>
1830:
1.431 ian 1831: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1832: <ul>
1833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1834: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1835: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1836: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1837: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1838: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1839: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1840: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1841: <p>
1842:
1843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1844: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1845: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1846: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1847: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1848: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1849: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1850: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1851: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1852: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1853: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1854: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1855: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1856: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1857: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1858: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1859:
1860: </ul>
1861:
1.427 matthieu 1862: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1863: <ul>
1864:
1865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1866: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1867: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1868: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1869: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1870: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1871: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1872: firmware.
1.434 ian 1873: Similar articles can be found online at:
1874: <ul>
1875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1876: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1877: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1878: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1880: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1881: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1882: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1884: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1885: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1886: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1888: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1889: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1890: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1891: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1892: </ul>
1893:
1.426 ian 1894: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1895: <ul>
1896:
1897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1898: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1899: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1900: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1901: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1902: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1903: mechanism: what it is and why and
1904: how to use it, with examples.
1905: Another excerpt from the book
1.588 deraadt 1906: "Secure Architectures with OpenBSD" by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1.426 ian 1907: <p>
1908:
1909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1910: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1911: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1912: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1913: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1914: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1915: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1916: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1917: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1918: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1919: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1920: This article is a sample chapter from
1.588 deraadt 1921: "Secure Architectures with OpenBSD" by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1.426 ian 1922: <p>
1.443 ian 1923:
1924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1925: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1926: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1927: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1928: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1929: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1930: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1931: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1932: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1933: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1934: ends with a sidebar on security.
1935: <p>
1.426 ian 1936: </ul>
1937:
1.424 ian 1938: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1939: <ul>
1940:
1941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1942: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1943: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1944: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1945: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1946: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1947: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1948: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1949: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1950: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1951: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1952: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1953: <p>
1954: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1955: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1956: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1957: <p>
1958:
1959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1960: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1961: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1962: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1963: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1964: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1965: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1966: operating systems.
1967: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1968: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1969: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1970: systems, he writes:
1971: <blockquote>
1972: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1973: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1974: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1975: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1976: to the operating system...
1.582 grunk 1977: <br>
1.424 ian 1978: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1979: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1980: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1981: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1982: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1983: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1984: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1985: in a closed source operating system).
1986: <br/>
1987: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1988: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1989: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1990: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1991: </blockquote>
1992: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1993: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1994: their hardware and software operates.
1995: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1996: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1997: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1998: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1999: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
2000: <p>
2001: </ul>
2002:
1.417 pvalchev 2003: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
2004: <ul>
1.421 ian 2005:
1.417 pvalchev 2006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 2007: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
2008: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
2009: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
2010: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
2011: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
2012: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
2013: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
2014: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
2015: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
2016: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
2017: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 2018: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 2019: <p>
2020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 2021: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
2022: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
2023: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
2024: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
2025: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
2026: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
2027: it claims to do".
2028: <p>
2029:
2030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 2031: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 2032: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
2033: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
2034: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
2035: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 2036: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 2037: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
2038: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
2039: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
2040: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
2041: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
2042: (yes, this is a hint).
2043: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
2044: picked up on the
2045: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
2046: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 2047: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 2048: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
2049: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
2050: <p>
2051:
2052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 2053: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
2054: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
2055: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
2056: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
2057: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
2058: questions about the significance and rationale behind
2059: the current efforts.
2060: <p>
2061: </ul>
2062:
1.407 henning 2063: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
2064: <ul>
2065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 2066: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
2067: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
2068: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
2069: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
2070: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
2071: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
2072: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
2073: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
2074: <p>
2075:
2076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 2077: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
2078: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
2079: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2080: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
2081: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
2082: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
2083: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
2084: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
2085: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 2086: <p>
1.415 ian 2087:
2088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2089: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 2090: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
2091: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
2092: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
2093: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
2094: overflow attacks... because
2095: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
2096: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
2097: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
2098: and propolice.
2099: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
2100: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
2101: and that's when the science falls apart."
2102: <p>
2103:
2104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 2105: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
2106: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
2107: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
2108: Starts with the question:
2109: <blockquote>
2110: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
2111: <br/>
2112: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
2113: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
2114: <br/>
2115: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
2116: Should we believe them?"
2117: </blockquote>
2118: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
2119: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
2120: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
2121: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
2122: for your mail, web and other online activities.
2123: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
2124: <p>
2125:
2126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 2127: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
2128: Simple Simon</a>,
2129: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
2130: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
2131: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
2132: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
2133: routing/firewall, and more.
2134: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
2135: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
2136: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
2137: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
2138: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
2139: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
2140: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
2141: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
2142: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
2143: </blockquote>
2144: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
2145: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
2146: <p>
2147:
2148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 2149: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
2150: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 2151: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 2152: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 2153: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
2154: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
2155: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 2156: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 2157: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
2158: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
2159: in spite of it
2160: (registration required, but worth it).
2161: <p>
2162:
2163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2164: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
2165: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
2166: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
2167: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
2168: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
2169: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1.588 deraadt 2170: "The Power of Many",
1.408 nick 2171: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
2172: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
2173: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
2174: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
2175: <p>
2176:
2177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 2178: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
2179: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
2180: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
2181: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
2182: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
2183: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
2184: <blockquote>
2185: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
2186: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
2187: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
2188: a lot of analysis.
2189: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
2190: </blockquote>
2191: <p>
2192: </ul>
2193:
1.400 marco 2194: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
2195: <ul>
2196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 2197: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
2198: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
2199: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
2200: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
2201: UNIX-like systems.
2202: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
2203: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
2204: <p>
2205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 2206: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
2207: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 2208: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2209: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
2210: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
2211: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
2212: At one point, the article states:
2213: <blockquote>
2214: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
2215: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
2216: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
2217: </blockquote>
2218: And then quotes Theo as saying:
2219: <blockquote>
2220: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
2221: fewer are reading or auditing code."
2222: </blockquote>
2223: <p>
2224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2225: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
2226: marks its fifth birthday</a>
2227: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2228: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
2229: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
2230: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
2231: required).
2232: <p>
2233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 2234: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
2235: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
2236: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
2237: </strong></font><br>
2238: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
2239: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
2240: <p>
2241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 2242: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
2243: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 2244: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 2245: </strong></font><br>
2246: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
2247: <p>
2248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 2249: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
2250: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 2251: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 2252: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 2253: 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 2254: <p>
2255: </ul>
2256:
1.396 henning 2257: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
2258: <ul>
2259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 2260: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
2261: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
2262: Unix Review, July, 2004
2263: </strong></font><br>
2264: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
2265: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 2266: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 2267: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
2268: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
2269: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
2270: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
2271: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
2272: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
2273: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
2274: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
2275: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
2276: and even spelling/wording errors.
2277: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
2278: <p>
2279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2280: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 2281: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
2282: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
2283: </strong></font><br>
2284: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
2285: <p>
2286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2287: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 2288: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
2289: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
2290: </strong></font><br>
2291: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
2292: <p>
2293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 2294: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
2295: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
2296: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
2297: </strong></font><br>
2298: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
2299: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
2300: <p>
2301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 2302: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
2303: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
2304: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
2305: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
2306: <p>
2307: </ul>
2308:
1.405 jolan 2309: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
2310: <ul>
1.545 tom 2311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2312: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 2313: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 2314: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
2315: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
2316: details on how funds are dispersed.
2317: <p>
2318: </ul>
2319:
1.393 david 2320: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
2321: <ul>
2322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 2323: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
2324: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
2325: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
2326: </strong></font><br>
2327: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
2328: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
2329: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
2330: on inserting large number of SQL records.
2331: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
2332: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
2333: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
2334: <p>
2335:
2336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2337: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
2338: Secure by Default</a>,
2339: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
2340: </strong></font><br>
2341: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
2342: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
2343: <p>
2344:
2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2346: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
2347: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
2348: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
2349: </strong></font><br>
2350: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
2351: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
2352: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
2353: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
2354: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
2355: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
2356: <p>
2357:
2358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2359: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
2360: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
2361: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
2362: </strong></font><br>
2363: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
2364: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
2365: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
2366: <p>
2367:
2368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2369: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
2370: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
2371: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
2372: </strong></font><br>
2373: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
2374: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
2375: <p>
2376: </ul>
2377:
1.388 mcbride 2378: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
2379: <ul>
1.394 jolan 2380:
2381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2382: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
2383: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
2384: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
2385: </strong></font><br>
2386: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
2387: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
2388: available for sparc64.
2389: <p>
2390:
1.390 beck 2391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2392: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
2393: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
2394: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
2395: </strong></font><br>
2396: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
2397: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
2398: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
2399: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
2400: <p>
2401:
2402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 2403: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
2404: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 2405: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 2406: </strong></font><br>
2407: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
2408: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
2409: it does: CARP provides sharing
2410: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
2411: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
2412: detail to get you started using it.
2413: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
2414: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
2415: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
2416: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
2417: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
2418: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
2419: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 2420: <p>
1.391 ian 2421:
2422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 2423: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 2424: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
2425: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 2426: </strong></font><br>
2427: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 2428: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 2429: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 2430: <p>
1.388 mcbride 2431:
2432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2433: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
2434: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 2435: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 2436: </strong></font><br>
2437: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
2438: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
2439: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
2440: unencumbered by patents.
2441: <p>
2442: </ul>
2443:
1.378 henning 2444: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
2445: <ul>
1.384 jose 2446:
2447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 2448: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
2449: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
2450: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
2451: </strong></font><br>
2452: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
2453: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
2454: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
2455: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
2456: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
2457: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
2458: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
2459: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
2460: in the page tables."
2461: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
2462: <p>
2463:
2464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2465: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
2466: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
2467: </strong></font><br>
2468: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
2469: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
2470: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
2471: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 2472: <p>
1.384 jose 2473:
1.378 henning 2474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2475: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
2476: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 2477: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
2478: </strong></font><br>
2479: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
2480: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
2481: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
2482: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
2483: (quote:
2484: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
2485: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 2486: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 2487: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
2488: the other developers for their work on the system.
2489: <p>
2490:
2491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2492: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
2493: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
2494: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 2495: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 2496: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
2497: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
2498: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
2499: too.
2500: <p>
2501:
2502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 2503: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
2504: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 2505: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 2506: OpenBSD source code using
2507: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
2508: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
2509: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
2510: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
2511: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
2512: <p>
2513: </ul>
2514:
1.374 jose 2515: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
2516: <ul>
2517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 2518: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 2519: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
2520: </strong></font><br>
2521: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
2522: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
2523: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
2524: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
2525: it."
2526: <p>
2527:
2528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 2529: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
2530: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
2531: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
2532: </strong></font><br/>
2533: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
2534: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
2535: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
2536: <p>
2537: </ul>
2538:
1.369 ian 2539: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
2540: <ul>
2541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2542: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
2543: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
2544: </strong></font><br/>
2545: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
2546: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
2547: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
2548: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
2549: <p>
2550:
2551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2552: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
2553: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
2554: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
2555: </strong></font><br/>
2556: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
2557: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
2558: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
2559: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
2560: form factor.
2561: <p>
2562:
2563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2564: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
2565: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
2566: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
2567: Features</a>,
2568: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
2569: </strong></font><br/>
2570: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
2571: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
2572: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
2573: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
2574: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
2575: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
2576: <p>
2577: This article can also be found online at:
2578: <ul>
2579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2580: <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 2581: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
2582: </strong></font>
2583: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2584: </ul>
2585: <p>
1.392 david 2586:
1.371 jose 2587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2588: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
2589: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 2590: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
2591: </strong></font><br/>
2592: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
2593: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
2594: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 2595: <p>
1.371 jose 2596:
2597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 2598: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 2599: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 2600: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 2601: </strong></font><br/>
2602: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
2603: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
2604: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
2605: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
2606: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
2607: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
2608: and its history with OpenBSD.
2609: </ul>
2610:
1.567 kurt 2611: <h2>September, 2003</h2>
2612: <ul>
2613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2614: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/rosenthal/rosenthal_html/">
2615: A Digital Preservation Network Appliance Based on OpenBSD</a>, BSDcon, September, 2003.
2616: </strong></font><br>
2617: David S. H. Rosenthal's paper on the design, implementation and deployment of the
2618: <a href="http://www.lockss.org">LOCKSS</a> network appliance based on OpenBSD.
2619: </ul>
2620:
1.368 henning 2621: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
2622: <ul>
2623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2624: [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 2625: </strong></font><br>
2626: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2627: </ul>
2628:
1.364 jose 2629: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2630: <ul>
2631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2632: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2633: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2634: UNIX Review,
2635: July, 2003.
2636: </strong></font><br>
2637: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2638: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2639: who want more information.
2640: <p>
2641:
2642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2643: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2644: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2645: Government Computer News,
2646: July 22, 2003.
2647: </strong></font><br>
2648: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2649: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2650: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2651: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2652: <p>
2653:
2654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2655: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2656: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2657: SANS Institute,
2658: July 22, 2003.
2659: </strong></font><br>
2660: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2661: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2662: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2663: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2664: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2665: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2666: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2667: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2668: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2669: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2670: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2671: <p>
2672:
2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2674: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2675: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2676: OnLamp.com,
2677: July 17, 2003.
2678: </strong></font><br>
2679: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2680: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2681: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2682: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2683: have been working on.
2684:
2685: </ul>
2686:
1.356 jose 2687: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2688: <ul>
2689:
2690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2691: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2692: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2693: UNIX Review,
2694: June, 2003.
2695: </strong></font><br>
2696: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2697: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2698: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2699: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2700: <p>
2701:
2702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2703: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2704: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2705: eWeek,
2706: June 23, 2003.
2707: </strong></font><br>
2708: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2709: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2710: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2711: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2712: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2713: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2714: <p>
2715:
2716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2717: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2718: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2719: Software Development Online,
2720: June, 2003.
2721: </strong></font><br>
2722: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2723: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2724: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2725: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2726: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2727: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2728: current activities.
2729: <p>
2730:
2731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2732: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2733: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2734: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2735: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2736: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2737: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2738: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2739: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2740: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2741: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2742: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2743: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2744: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2745: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2746: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2747: decisions.
2748: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2749: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2750: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2751: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2752: <p>
2753:
2754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2755: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2756: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2757: Page 58, eWeek,
2758: June 2, 2003.
2759: </strong></font><br>
2760: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2761: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2762: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2763: been addressed in -current.
2764: <p>
2765:
1.356 jose 2766: </ul>
2767:
2768: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2769: <ul>
2770:
1.355 jose 2771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2772: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2773: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2774: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2775: </strong></font><br>
2776: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2777: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2778: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2779: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2780: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2781: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2782: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2783: <p>
2784:
2785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2786: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2787: Beyond Linux</a>,
2788: InfoWorld,
2789: May 23, 2003.
2790: </strong></font><br>
2791: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2792: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2793: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2794: compared to the GPL.
2795: <p>
2796:
2797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2798: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2799: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2800: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2801: May 17, 2003.
2802: </strong></font><br>
2803: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2804: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2805: the business section and half of another page inside
2806: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2807: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2808: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2809: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2810: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2811: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2812: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2813: <br>
2814: This article can also be found online at:
2815: <ul>
2816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2817: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2818: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2819: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2820: May 17, 2003
2821: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2822: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2824: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2825: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2826: Montreal Gazette,
2827: May 21, 2003
2828: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2829: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2830: <p>
1.346 ian 2831:
2832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2833: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2834: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2835: May 7, 2003.
2836: </strong></font><br>
2837: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2838: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2839: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2840: <p>
2841:
2842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2843: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2844: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2845: OsOpinion,
2846: May 6, 2003.
2847: </strong></font><br>
2848: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2849: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2850: <br>
2851: This article can also be found online at:
2852: <ul>
2853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2854: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2855: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2856: NewsFactor Network.
2857: </strong></font>
2858: </ul>
2859: <p>
2860:
2861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2862: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2863: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2864: ITBusiness,
2865: May 2, 2003.
2866: </strong></font><br>
2867: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2868: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2869: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2870: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2871: <p>
2872:
2873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2874: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2875: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2876: InfoWorld,
2877: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2878: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2879: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2880: <br>
2881: This article can also be found online at:
2882: <ul>
2883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2884: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2885: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2886: IDG Singapore.
2887: </strong></font>
2888: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2889: <p>
2890:
1.339 jose 2891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2892: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2893: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2894: ZDNet,
2895: May 1, 2003.
2896: </strong></font><br>
2897: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2898: someone using parts from previous articles.
2899: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2900: This article can also be found online at:
2901: <ul>
2902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2903: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2904: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2905: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2906: </strong></font>
2907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2908: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2909: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2910: CNET News.com.
2911: </strong></font>
2912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2913: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2914: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2915: ZDNet UK.
2916: </strong></font>
2917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2918: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2919: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2920: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2921: </strong></font>
2922: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2923: <p>
1.339 jose 2924:
1.341 deraadt 2925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 2926: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2927: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2928: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2929: May 1, 2003.
2930: </strong></font><br>
2931: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2932: that have been added
2933: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2934: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2935: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2936: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2937: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2938: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2939: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2940: <p>
2941:
2942: </ul>
2943:
1.253 ian 2944: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2945: <ul>
1.255 ian 2946:
1.260 ian 2947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2948: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2949: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2950: TechRepublic,
2951: April 28, 2003.
2952: </strong></font><br>
2953: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2954: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2955: work.<br>
2956: Can also be found online at:
2957: <ul>
2958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2959: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2960: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2961: ZDNet UK.
2962: </strong></font>
2963: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2964: <p>
2965:
2966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2967: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2968: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2969: IDG,
2970: April 24, 2003.
2971: </strong></font><br>
2972: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2973: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2974: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2975: Can also be found online at:
2976: <ul>
2977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2978: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2979: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2980: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2981: </strong></font>
2982: </ul>
2983: <p>
2984:
2985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2986: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2987: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2988: Slate,
2989: April 24, 2003.
2990: </strong></font><br>
2991: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2992: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2993: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2994: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2995: <p>
2996:
2997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2998: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2999: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
3000: April 24, 2003.
3001: </strong></font><br>
3002: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
3003: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
3004: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
3005: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
3006: <p>
3007:
3008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 3009: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
3010: April 24, 2003.
3011: </strong></font><br>
3012: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
3013: the free software community".
3014: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
3015: other articles.
3016: <p>
3017:
3018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 3019: <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 3020: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
3021: </strong></font><br>
3022: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
3023: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
3024: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
3025: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
3026: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
3027: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
3028: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 3029: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 3030: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
3031: <br/>
3032: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
3033: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
3034: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
3035: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 3036: <br>
3037: Can also be found online at:
3038: <ul>
3039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3040: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
3041: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
3042: Common Dreams NewsCenter
3043: </strong></font>
3044: </ul>
1.324 ian 3045: <p>
3046:
3047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3048: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
3049: Wired, April 24, 2003.
3050: </strong></font><br>
3051: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
3052: article above.
3053: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
3054: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
3055: wasting them."
1.332 ian 3056: <br>
3057: Can also be found online at:
3058: <ul>
3059: <li>
3060: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
3061: </strong></font>
3062: </ul>
1.324 ian 3063: <p>
3064:
3065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 3066: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
3067: </strong></font><br>
3068: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
3069: <p>
3070:
3071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 3072: <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.
3073: </strong></font><br>
3074: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
3075: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
3076: <p>
3077:
3078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 3079: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
3080: April 23, 2003.
3081: </strong></font><br>
3082: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
3083: <p>
3084:
3085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 3086: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 3087: April 22, 2003.
3088: </strong></font><br>
3089: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
3090: <p>
3091:
3092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 3093: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
3094: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
3095: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 3096: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 3097: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
3098: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
3099: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
3100: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
3101: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
3102: Can also be found online at:
3103: <ul>
3104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3105: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 3106: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
3107: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 3108: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 3109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3110: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 3111: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
3112: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 3113: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 3114: </ul>
3115: <p>
3116:
3117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 3118: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
3119: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 3120: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3121: </strong></font><br>
3122: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 3123: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
3124: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
3125: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
3126: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
3127: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
3128: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 3129: <p>
3130:
3131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 3132: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
3133: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 3134: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
3135: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 3136: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
3137: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
3138: at UPenn and DARPA.
3139: <p>
3140:
3141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 3142: [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,
3143: France
1.315 deraadt 3144: April 18, 2003.
3145: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 3146: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 3147: <p>
3148:
3149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 3150: [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 3151: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3152: </strong></font><br>
3153: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
3154: <p>
3155:
3156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 3157: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
3158: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
3159: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3160: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 3161: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
3162: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
3163: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
3164: <p>
3165:
3166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 3167: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
3168: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3169: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 3170: </strong></font><br>
3171: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3172: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
3173: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 3174: American century.
1.267 deraadt 3175: <p>
3176:
3177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 3178: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
3179: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3180: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 3181: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 3182: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
3183: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
3184: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
3185: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
3186: Can also be found online at:
3187: <ul>
3188: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
3189: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 3190: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 3191: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 3192: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 3193: <p>
3194:
3195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 3196: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 3197: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 3198: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 3199: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 3200: </strong></font><br>
3201: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 3202: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
3203: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
3204: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
3205: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 3206:
3207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3208: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
3209: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
3210: New York Times.
3211: </strong></font>(free registration required)
3212:
1.273 deraadt 3213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3214: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 3215: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 3216: ABC News.
3217: </strong></font>
3218:
3219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3220: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 3221: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 3222: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 3223: </strong></font>
3224:
3225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3226: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 3227: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 3228: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 3229: </strong></font>
3230:
3231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 3232: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
3233: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3234: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 3235: </strong></font>
3236:
3237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3238: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 3239: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 3240: Times Daily, AL.
3241: </strong></font>
3242:
3243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3244: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
3245: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
3246: Boston.com, MA.
3247: </strong></font>
3248:
3249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3250: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 3251: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 3252: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
3253: </strong></font>
3254:
3255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 3256: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
3257: [Article was pulled]</a>
3258: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 3259: </strong></font>
3260:
3261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3262: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
3263: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
3264: Infoshop News.
3265: </strong></font>
3266:
3267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3268: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
3269: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3270: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
3271: </strong></font>
3272:
3273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 3274: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
3275: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
3276: Raleigh News, NC.
3277: </strong></font>
3278:
3279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 3280: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 3281: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
3282: Napa News, CA.
3283: </strong></font>
3284:
3285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3286: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 3287: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3288: NEPA News, PA.
3289: </strong></font>
3290:
3291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3292: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
3293: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
3294: Wired News.
3295: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 3296: <br>
3297: <li>
1.333 deraadt 3298: <font color="#009000"><strong>
3299: [JAPANESE]
3300: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
3301: Wired News Japan</a>
3302: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 3303:
1.271 deraadt 3304: </ul>
3305: <p>
1.272 deraadt 3306: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
3307: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 3308: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
3309: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
3310: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
3311: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
3312: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
3313: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 3314: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 3315: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
3316: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
3317: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 3318: <p>
3319: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 3320:
3321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3322: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 3323: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
3324: Indianapolis Star, IN.
3325: </strong></font>
3326:
3327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 3328: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
3329: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3330: Miami Herald, FL.
3331: </strong></font>
3332:
3333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 3334: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3335: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
3336: </strong></font>
3337:
3338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3339: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 3340: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3341: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 3342: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 3343:
3344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3345: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
3346: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
3347: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
3348: ABC News.
3349: </strong></font>
3350:
1.276 deraadt 3351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3352: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 3353: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3354: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 3355: </strong></font>
3356:
1.286 dhartmei 3357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3358: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 3359: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3360: Wilmington Star, NC.
3361: </strong></font>
3362:
1.300 jose 3363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3364: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
3365: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
3366: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
3367: </strong></font>
3368:
1.309 jose 3369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3370: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
3371: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
3372: Globe Technology.
3373: </strong></font>
3374:
1.263 deraadt 3375: </ul>
1.262 beck 3376: <p>
3377:
3378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 3379: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
3380: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3381: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 3382: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 3383: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 3384: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
3385: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
3386: <p>
3387:
3388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 3389: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
3390: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
3391: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3392: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 3393: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
3394: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
3395: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
3396: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
3397: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
3398: and simply restates other press reports.
3399: <p>
3400:
3401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 3402: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
3403: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
3404: OS News, April 18, 2003.
3405: </strong></font><br>
3406: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
3407: <p>
3408:
3409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 3410: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
3411: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3412: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 3413: </strong></font><br>
3414: Another report on the DARPA funding.
3415: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
3416: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
3417: <p>
3418:
3419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 3420: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
3421: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
3422: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
3423: April 17, 2003.
3424: </strong></font><br>
3425: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
3426: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
3427: Tech Anthems</a>
3428: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
3429: 4 so far.
3430: <p>
3431:
3432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 3433: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
3434: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3435: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3436: </strong></font><br>
3437: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
3438: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
3439: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
3440: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
3441: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
3442: Goes on to say:
3443: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
3444: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
3445: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
3446: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 3447: This article is also found online at:
3448: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 3449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3450: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
3451: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
3452: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3453: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3455: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
3456: ZDnet</a>,
3457: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3458: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3460: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
3461: ZDnet Australia</a>,
3462: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 3463: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 3464: </ul>
1.260 ian 3465: <p>
1.279 deraadt 3466:
1.260 ian 3467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3468: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 3469: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 3470: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3471: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 3472: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 3473: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
3474: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
3475: without notice or justification.
3476: <p>
3477:
3478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 3479: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 3480: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 3481: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3482: </strong></font><br>
3483: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
3484: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 3485: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 3486: effective today, without any warning..."
3487: <p>
1.257 ian 3488:
3489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 3490: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
3491: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3492: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 3493: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 3494: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
3495: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
3496: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
3497: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
3498: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 3499: <p>
3500:
3501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 3502: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
3503: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3504: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 3505: </strong></font><br>
3506: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
3507: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
3508: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
3509: quoting two of them:
3510: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
3511: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
3512: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
3513: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
3514: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
3515: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
3516: <p>
3517:
1.255 ian 3518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3519: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
3520: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 3521: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3522: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 3523: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 3524: <p>
3525:
3526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 3527: [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 3528: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3529: </strong></font><br>
3530: New security concepts in OpenBSD
3531: <p>
3532:
3533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 3534: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
3535: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3536: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 3537: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 3538: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 3539: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
3540: security experts for more than three decades."
3541: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
3542: <p>
1.261 ian 3543:
1.254 drahn 3544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 3545: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 3546: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3547: </strong></font><br>
3548: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3549: <p>
3550:
3551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 3552: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
3553: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
3554: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
3555: </strong></font><br>
3556: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
3557: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
3558: discussion OpenBSD's path.
3559: <p>
3560:
3561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 3562: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
3563: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3564: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 3565: </strong></font><br>
3566: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
3567: from US DARPA.
3568: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
3569: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
3570: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
3571: the BSD license.
3572: <p>
3573: </ul>
3574:
1.251 ian 3575: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3576: <ul>
3577:
3578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3579: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
3580: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
3581: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
3582: </strong></font><br>
3583:
3584: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3585: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3586: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3587: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3588: <p>
3589:
3590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 3591: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
3592: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 3593: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 3594: </strong></font><br>
3595: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
3596: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
3597: Mentions
3598: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
3599: and
3600: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
3601: programs.
3602: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 3603: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 3604: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
3605: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
3606: <p>
1.325 ian 3607: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
3608: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 3609:
3610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3611: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
3612: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
3613: </strong></font><br>
3614: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
3615: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
3616: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
3617: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
3618: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
3619: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
3620: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
3621: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
3622: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
3623: put into service."
3624: <p>
3625: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3626: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3627: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3628: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3629: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3630: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3631: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3632: computers with security features."
3633: <p>
1.329 ian 3634:
3635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3636: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3637: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3638: Slate,
3639: March 3, 2003.
3640: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3641: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3642: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3643: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3644: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3645: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3646: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3647: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3648: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3649: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3650: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3651: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3652: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3653: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3654: of more secure open-source solutions like
3655: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3656: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3657: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3658: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3659: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3660: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3661: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3662: the Beltway."
3663: <p>
1.251 ian 3664: </ul>
3665:
1.249 jufi 3666: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3667: <ul>
3668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3669: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3670: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3671: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3672: </strong></font><br>
3673: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3674: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3675: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3676: <p>
1.334 ian 3677:
3678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3679: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3680: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3681: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3682: </strong></font><br>
3683: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3684: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3685: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3686: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3687: "... the hypothetical question ...
3688: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3689: <br>
3690: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3691: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3692: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3693: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3694: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3695: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3696: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3697: support network security.
3698: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3699: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3700: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3701: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3702: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3703: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3704: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3705: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3706: <br>
3707: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3708: <p>
3709:
1.249 jufi 3710: </ul>
3711:
1.246 jufi 3712: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3713: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3714:
1.247 jufi 3715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3716: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3717: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3718: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3719: </strong></font><br>
3720: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3721: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3722: <p>
3723:
1.247 jufi 3724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3725: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3726: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3727: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3728: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3729: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3730: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3731: <p>
3732:
3733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3734: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3735: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3736: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3737: </strong></font><br>
3738: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3739: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3740: <p>
1.247 jufi 3741: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3742:
1.244 jufi 3743: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3744: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3745:
1.247 jufi 3746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3747: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3748: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3749: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3750: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3751: </strong></font><br>
3752: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3753: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3754: md5 digests.
3755: <p>
3756:
1.247 jufi 3757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3758: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3759: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3760: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3761: </strong></font><br>
3762: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3763: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3764: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3765: right the first time."
3766: <p>
1.247 jufi 3767: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3768:
3769:
3770: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3771: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3772:
1.247 jufi 3773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3774: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3775: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3776: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3777: </strong></font><br>
3778: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3779: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3780: part 6</a>.
3781: <p>
3782:
1.247 jufi 3783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3784: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3785: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3786: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3787: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3788: </strong></font><br>
3789: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3790: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3791: <p>
1.301 jose 3792:
3793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3794: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3795: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3796: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3797: </strong></font><br>
3798:
3799: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3800: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3801: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3802: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3803: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3804: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3805: <i>Here's the
3806: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3807: <p>
1.247 jufi 3808: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3809:
3810: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3811: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3812:
1.247 jufi 3813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3814: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3815: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3816: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3817: </strong></font><br>
3818: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3819: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3820: <p>
3821:
1.247 jufi 3822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3823: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3824: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3825: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3826: </strong></font><br>
3827: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3828: this time using pf.
3829: <p>
1.247 jufi 3830: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3831:
3832: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3833: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3834:
1.247 jufi 3835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3836: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3837: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3838: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3839: </strong></font><br>
3840: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3841: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3842: their rotation.
3843: <p>
3844:
1.247 jufi 3845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3846: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3847: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3848: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3849: </strong></font><br>
3850: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3851: <p>
1.247 jufi 3852: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3853:
1.239 jufi 3854: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3855: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3856:
1.247 jufi 3857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3858: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3859: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3860: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3861: </strong></font><br>
3862: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3863: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3864: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3865: <p>
3866:
1.247 jufi 3867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3868: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3869: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3870: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3871: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3872: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3873: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3874: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3875: <p>
1.247 jufi 3876: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3877:
1.235 lebel 3878: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3879: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3880:
1.239 jufi 3881:
1.247 jufi 3882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3883: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3884: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3885: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3886: </strong></font><br>
3887: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3888: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3889: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3890: <p>
1.301 jose 3891:
1.247 jufi 3892: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3893:
1.228 horacio 3894: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3895: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3896:
1.247 jufi 3897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3898: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3899: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3900: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3901: </strong></font><br>
3902: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3903: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3904: <p>
3905:
1.247 jufi 3906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3907: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3908: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3909: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3910: </strong></font><br>
3911: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3912: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3913: <p>
3914:
1.247 jufi 3915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3916: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3917: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3918: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3919: </strong></font><br>
3920: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3921: on the desktop of his parents.
3922: <p>
3923:
1.247 jufi 3924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3925: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3926: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3927: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3928: </strong></font><br>
3929: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3930: using IPFilter.
3931:
3932: <p>
3933:
1.247 jufi 3934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3935: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3936: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3937: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3938: </strong></font><br>
3939: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3940: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3941: perspectives of the four OS.
3942: <br>
3943: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3944: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3945: <p>
3946:
1.247 jufi 3947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3948: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3949: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3950: software and security</a>,
3951: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3952: </strong></font><br>
3953:
3954: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3955: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3956: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3957: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3958: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3959: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3960: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3961: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3962: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3963: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3964: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3965: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3966: <p>
1.247 jufi 3967: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3968:
1.225 horacio 3969: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3970: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3971:
1.247 jufi 3972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3973: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3974: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3975: Interview</a>,
3976: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3977: </strong></font><br>
3978:
3979: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3980: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3981: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3982: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3983: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3984: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3985: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3986: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3987: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3988: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3989: of choice.
3990: <p>
1.247 jufi 3991: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3992:
3993: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3994: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3995:
1.247 jufi 3996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3997: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3998: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3999: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 4000: </strong></font><br>
4001:
4002: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
4003: <p>
4004:
1.247 jufi 4005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4006: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 4007: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
4008: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 4009: </strong></font><br>
4010:
4011: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
4012: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
4013: <p>
1.247 jufi 4014: </ul>
1.225 horacio 4015:
1.218 horacio 4016: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4017: <ul>
1.218 horacio 4018:
1.247 jufi 4019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 4020: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 4021: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 4022: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 4023: </strong></font><br>
4024:
4025: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
4026: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
4027: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
4028: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
4029: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
4030: subjects. Worth a read.
4031: <p>
4032:
4033:
1.247 jufi 4034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 4035: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 4036: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
4037: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 4038: </strong></font><br>
4039:
4040: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
4041: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
4042: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
4043: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
4044: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
4045: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
4046: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
4047: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
4048: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 4049: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 4050: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
4051: on other operating systems.<br>
4052: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
4053: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
4054: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
4055: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
4056: <p>
4057:
1.247 jufi 4058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4059: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 4060: Operating System 2010</a>,
4061: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 4062: </strong></font><br>
4063:
4064: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
4065: covering the level of software integration into the core
4066: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
4067: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
4068: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
4069: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
4070: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
4071: <p>
4072:
1.247 jufi 4073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 4074: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 4075: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
4076: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 4077: </strong></font><br>
4078:
4079: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
4080: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
4081: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
4082: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
4083: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
4084: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
4085: <p>
1.247 jufi 4086: </ul>
1.221 horacio 4087:
1.210 jufi 4088: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4089: <ul>
1.215 horacio 4090:
1.247 jufi 4091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4092: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 4093: Already a Contender</a>,
4094: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 4095: </strong></font><br>
4096:
4097: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
4098: source software in response to an article which claimed that
4099: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
4100: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
4101: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
4102: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
4103: <p>
4104:
1.247 jufi 4105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 4106: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 4107: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
4108: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 4109: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4110:
1.224 horacio 4111: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
4112: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
4113: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
4114: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
4115: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
4116: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 4117: <p>
1.247 jufi 4118: </ul>
1.215 horacio 4119:
4120: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4121: <ul>
1.215 horacio 4122:
1.247 jufi 4123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4124: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
4125: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 4126: Division</a>,
4127: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 4128: </strong></font><br>
4129:
4130: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
4131: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 4132: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 4133: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
4134: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
4135: investment</em>.<br>
4136: The implementation details can be seen on their
4137: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
4138: <p>
4139:
1.247 jufi 4140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4141: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
4142: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
4143: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
4144: </strong></font><br>
4145:
4146: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
4147: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
4148: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 4149: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 4150: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
4151: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
4152: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
4153: <p>
4154:
4155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4156: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 4157: Thinking about Security</a>,
4158: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 4159: </strong></font><br>
4160:
4161: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
4162: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
4163: security and says that even secured operating systems running
4164: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
4165: to time.<br>
4166: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
4167: system and just the most secure system.
4168: <p>
4169:
1.247 jufi 4170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4171: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 4172: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
4173: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 4174: </strong></font><br>
4175:
4176: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
4177: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
4178: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
4179: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
4180: choice:<br>
4181: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
4182: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
4183: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
4184: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
4185: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
4186: network security devices and as such must be well
4187: armored."</em><br>
4188: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
4189: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
4190: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
4191: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
4192: <br>
4193: Bravo!
4194: <p>
1.247 jufi 4195: </ul>
1.210 jufi 4196:
1.207 ian 4197: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4198: <ul>
1.215 horacio 4199:
1.247 jufi 4200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 4201: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
4202: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
4203: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 4204:
1.207 ian 4205: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
4206: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 4207: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 4208: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
4209: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
4210: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 4211: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 4212: <p>
1.247 jufi 4213: </ul>
1.207 ian 4214:
1.194 jufi 4215: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4216: <ul>
1.194 jufi 4217:
1.247 jufi 4218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4219: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 4220: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
4221: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 4222: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4223:
1.240 miod 4224: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 4225: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
4226: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
4227: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
4228: <p>
4229:
1.247 jufi 4230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4231: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
4232: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
4233: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
4234:
4235: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
4236: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
4237: <p>
4238:
4239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4240: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
4241: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4242: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
4243:
4244: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
4245: <p>
4246:
4247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4248: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 4249: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
4250: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
4251: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4252:
1.240 miod 4253: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 4254: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 4255: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
4256: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 4257: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 4258: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 4259: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
4260: <br>
1.413 deraadt 4261: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 4262: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
4263: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
4264: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
4265: <p>
4266:
1.247 jufi 4267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 4268: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
4269: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 4270: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 4271: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4272:
1.194 jufi 4273: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
4274: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
4275: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
4276: <br>
4277: The new
4278: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 4279: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 4280: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
4281: <p>
1.247 jufi 4282: </ul>
1.194 jufi 4283:
1.190 horacio 4284: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4285: <ul>
1.190 horacio 4286:
1.247 jufi 4287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 4288:
4289: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
4290: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
4291:
1.301 jose 4292:
1.191 jufi 4293: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
4294: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
4295:
4296: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
4297: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
4298:
1.582 grunk 4299: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20010527142347">
1.212 horacio 4300: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 4301: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
4302:
1.211 horacio 4303: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
4304: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 4305: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
4306:
1.247 jufi 4307: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 4308: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
4309:
1.247 jufi 4310: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 4311: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
4312:
1.212 horacio 4313: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
4314: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 4315: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
4316:
4317: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
4318: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
4319:
4320: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
4321: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
4322:
1.301 jose 4323: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
4324: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
4325:
1.191 jufi 4326: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
4327: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
4328:
4329: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 4330: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 4331:
1.192 jufi 4332: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
4333: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 4334: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 4335:
1.193 deraadt 4336: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
4337: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 4338: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 4339:
1.247 jufi 4340: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 4341: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
4342:
1.247 jufi 4343: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 4344: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
4345: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
4346:
1.213 horacio 4347: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 4348: 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 4349: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
4350:
1.190 horacio 4351: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 4352: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
4353: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
4354: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
4355: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
4356: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
4357: <p>
1.190 horacio 4358:
1.247 jufi 4359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4360: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
4361: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
4362: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 4363: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4364:
1.195 jufi 4365: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 4366: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
4367: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
4368: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 4369: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
4370: <p>
4371:
1.247 jufi 4372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4373: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 4374: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
4375: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
4376: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4377:
1.191 jufi 4378: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 4379: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
4380: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
4381: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
4382: <p>
4383:
4384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4385: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
4386: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4387: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
4388:
4389: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
4390: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 4391: <p>
1.247 jufi 4392: </ul>
1.190 horacio 4393:
1.191 jufi 4394:
1.186 jufi 4395: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4396: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 4397:
1.247 jufi 4398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 4399: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 4400: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
4401: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 4402: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 4403:
1.188 jufi 4404: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 4405: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 4406: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 4407: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
4408: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 4409: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 4410: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 4411: <p>
4412:
1.301 jose 4413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4414: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
4415: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4416: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
4417:
4418: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
4419: <p>
1.191 jufi 4420:
1.247 jufi 4421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 4422: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
4423: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 4424: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 4425: </strong></font><br>
4426:
4427: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
4428: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
4429: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
4430: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
4431: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
4432: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
4433: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
4434: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
4435: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
4436: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
4437: familiar?
4438: <p>
1.247 jufi 4439: </ul>
1.191 jufi 4440:
1.178 louis 4441: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4442: <ul>
1.178 louis 4443:
1.247 jufi 4444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 4445: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 4446: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
4447: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 4448: </strong></font><br>
4449:
4450: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
4451: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
4452: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
4453: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
4454: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
4455: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
4456: <p>
4457:
1.247 jufi 4458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4459: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
4460: Open source under the hood</a>,
4461: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 4462: </strong></font><br>
4463:
4464: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
4465: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
4466: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
4467: <p>
4468:
1.247 jufi 4469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4470: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
4471: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
4472: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 4473: </strong></font><br>
4474:
4475: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
4476: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
4477: <p>
1.247 jufi 4478: </ul>
1.179 louis 4479:
1.174 louis 4480:
1.175 louis 4481: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4482: <ul>
1.175 louis 4483:
1.247 jufi 4484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4485: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
4486: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
4487: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 4488: </strong></font><br>
4489:
4490: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
4491: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
4492: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
4493: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
4494: <p>
4495:
1.247 jufi 4496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4497: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
4498: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
4499: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 4500: </strong></font><br>
4501:
4502: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 4503: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 4504: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
4505: <p>
1.247 jufi 4506: </ul>
1.175 louis 4507:
1.176 louis 4508:
1.172 mickey 4509: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4510: <ul>
1.172 mickey 4511:
1.247 jufi 4512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4513: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
4514: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 4515: </strong></font><br>
4516:
4517: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
4518: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
4519: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 4520: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 4521: <p>
4522:
1.247 jufi 4523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 4524: <a
1.269 deraadt 4525: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
4526: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
4527: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 4528: </strong></font><br>
4529:
4530: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
4531: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
4532: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
4533: <p>
4534:
1.247 jufi 4535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4536: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 4537: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
4538: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 4539: </strong></font><br>
4540:
4541: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
4542: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
4543: <p>
4544:
1.247 jufi 4545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4546: <a
1.269 deraadt 4547: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
4548: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 4549: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
4550: </strong></font><br>
4551:
4552: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
4553: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
4554: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
4555: our own Theo de Raadt.
4556: <p>
4557:
1.247 jufi 4558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4559: <a
1.269 deraadt 4560: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
4561: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
4562: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 4563: </strong></font><br>
4564:
4565: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
4566: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
4567: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
4568: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
4569: shut down.]
4570: <p>
4571:
1.247 jufi 4572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4573: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 4574: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 4575: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
4576: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 4577: </strong></font><br>
4578:
4579: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
4580: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
4581: <p>
1.247 jufi 4582: </ul>
1.172 mickey 4583:
1.161 louis 4584: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4585: <ul>
1.161 louis 4586:
1.247 jufi 4587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4588: <a
1.269 deraadt 4589: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
4590: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
4591: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 4592: </strong></font><br>
4593:
4594: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
4595: by John Wolley
4596: <p>
4597:
1.247 jufi 4598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4599: <a
1.269 deraadt 4600: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
4601: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
4602: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 4603: </strong></font><br>
4604:
4605: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
4606: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
4607: OpenBSD).
4608: <p>
4609:
1.247 jufi 4610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4611: <a
1.247 jufi 4612: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 4613: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
4614: </strong></font><br>
4615:
4616: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
4617: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1.585 steven 4618: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports
1.171 louis 4619: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
4620: and hindsight.
4621: <p>
4622:
1.247 jufi 4623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4624: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4625: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4626: </strong></font><br>
4627:
4628: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4629: <p>
4630:
1.247 jufi 4631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4632: <a
1.168 provos 4633: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4634: December 7, 2000
4635: </strong></font><br>
4636:
4637: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4638: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4639: us explain.
4640: <p>
4641:
1.247 jufi 4642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4643: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4644: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4645: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4646: December 6, 2000
4647: </strong></font><br>
4648:
4649: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4650: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4651: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4652: <p>
4653:
1.247 jufi 4654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4655: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4656: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4657: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4658: </strong></font><br>
4659:
4660: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4661: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4662: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4663: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4664: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4665: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4666: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4667: <p>
4668:
4669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4670: <a
1.226 horacio 4671: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4672: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4673: </strong></font><br>
4674:
4675: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4676: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4677: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4678: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4679: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4680: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4681: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4682: <p>
1.162 millert 4683:
1.247 jufi 4684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4685: <a
1.161 louis 4686: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4687: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4688: </strong></font><br>
4689:
4690: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4691: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4692: <p>
4693:
1.247 jufi 4694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4695: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4696: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4697: </strong></font><br>
4698:
4699: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4700: <p>
4701:
4702:
1.247 jufi 4703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4704: <a
1.226 horacio 4705: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4706: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4707: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4708: </strong></font><br>
4709:
4710: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4711: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4712: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4713: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4714: <p>
1.247 jufi 4715: </ul>
1.169 louis 4716:
1.158 louis 4717: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4718: <ul>
1.147 louis 4719:
1.247 jufi 4720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4721: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4722: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4723: </strong></font><br>
4724:
4725: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4726: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4727: <p>
4728:
1.247 jufi 4729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4730: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4731: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4732: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4733: </strong></font><br>
4734: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4735: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4736: <p>
4737:
1.247 jufi 4738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4739: <a
4740: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4741: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4742: </strong></font><br>
4743:
4744: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4745: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4746: <p>
4747:
1.247 jufi 4748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4749: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4750: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4751: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4752:
1.213 horacio 4753: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4754: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4755: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4756: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4757: <p>
1.215 horacio 4758:
1.247 jufi 4759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4760: <a
4761: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4762: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4763: </strong></font><br>
4764:
4765: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4766: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4767: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4768: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4769: much of the attitude too).
4770: <p>
1.161 louis 4771:
1.247 jufi 4772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4773: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4774: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4775: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4776:
1.157 louis 4777: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4778: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4779: <p>
1.247 jufi 4780: </ul>
1.157 louis 4781:
4782: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4783: <ul>
1.157 louis 4784:
1.247 jufi 4785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4786: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4787: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4788: </strong></font><br>
4789:
4790: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4791: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4792: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4793: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4794: <p>
4795:
1.247 jufi 4796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4797: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4798: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4799: </strong></font><br>
4800:
4801: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4802: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4803: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4804: it because they love coding...
4805: <p>
4806:
1.247 jufi 4807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4808: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4809: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4810: </strong></font><br>
4811:
4812: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4813: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4814: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4815: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4816: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4817: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4818: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4819: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4820: <p>
4821:
1.247 jufi 4822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4823: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4824: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4825: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4826: </strong></font><br>
4827:
4828: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4829: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4830: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4831: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4832: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4833: the pizza.
4834: <p>
4835:
1.247 jufi 4836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4837: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4838: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4839: </strong></font><br>
4840:
4841: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4842: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4843: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4844: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4845: problems.
4846: <p>
4847:
1.247 jufi 4848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.568 ian 4849: <a href="https://osuny.co.uk/txt/zines/napalm/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba
4850: to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
1.154 louis 4851: </strong></font><br>
4852:
1.222 miod 4853: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4854: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4855: - whether they like it or not.
4856: <p>
4857:
1.247 jufi 4858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4859: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4860: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4861: </strong></font><br>
4862:
4863: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4864: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4865: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4866: <p>
1.148 aaron 4867:
1.247 jufi 4868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4869: <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 4870: </strong></font><br>
4871:
4872: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4873: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4874: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4875: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4876: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4877: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4878: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4879: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4880: <p>
4881:
1.247 jufi 4882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4883: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4884: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4885: </strong></font><br>
4886:
4887: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4888: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4889: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4890: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4891: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4892: <p>
1.247 jufi 4893: </ul>
1.147 louis 4894:
1.138 louis 4895: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4896: <ul>
1.138 louis 4897:
1.247 jufi 4898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4899: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4900: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4901: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4902: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4903: </strong></font><br>
4904:
1.227 horacio 4905: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4906: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4907: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4908: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4909: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4910: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4911: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4912: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4913: <p>
4914:
1.247 jufi 4915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4916: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4917: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4918: </strong></font><br>
4919:
4920: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4921: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4922: groups, and even Linux.
4923: <p>
4924:
1.247 jufi 4925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4926: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4927: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4928: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4929: </strong></font><br>
4930:
4931: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4932: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4933: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4934: library after installing the OS.
4935: <p>
4936:
1.247 jufi 4937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4938: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4939: Sys Admin, September 2000
4940: </strong></font><br>
4941:
4942: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4943: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4944: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4945: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4946: (<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>,
4947: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4948: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4949: <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 4950: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4951: out of the system.
4952: <p>
4953:
1.247 jufi 4954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4955: <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
4956: </strong></font><br>
4957:
4958: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4959: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4960: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4961: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4962: the IP filtering and address translation.
4963: <p>
1.301 jose 4964:
4965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4966: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4967: </strong></font><br>
4968:
1.585 steven 4969: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">Ports</a> system that gives
1.301 jose 4970: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4971: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4972: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4973: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4974: <p>
1.247 jufi 4975: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4976:
1.131 louis 4977: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4978: <ul>
1.131 louis 4979:
1.247 jufi 4980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4981: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4982: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4983: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4984: </strong></font><br>
4985:
4986: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4987: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4988: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4989: <p>
4990:
1.247 jufi 4991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4992: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4993: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4994: </strong></font><br>
4995:
4996: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4997: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4998: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4999: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
5000: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
5001: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
5002: note of"</i>.
5003: <p>
5004:
1.247 jufi 5005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 5006: <a
1.247 jufi 5007: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 5008: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
5009: </strong></font><br>
5010:
5011: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
5012: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
5013: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
5014: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
5015: <p>
5016:
1.247 jufi 5017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 5018: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 5019: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
5020: </strong></font><br>
5021:
5022: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
5023: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
5024: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
5025: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
5026: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
5027: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
5028: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
5029: <p>
5030:
1.247 jufi 5031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 5032: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
5033: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
5034: 2000
5035: </strong></font><br>
5036:
5037: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
5038: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
5039: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
5040: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
5041: against current industry practices.
5042: <p>
5043:
1.247 jufi 5044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 5045: <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
5046: </strong></font><br>
5047:
5048: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
5049: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
5050: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
5051: <p>
5052:
1.247 jufi 5053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 5054: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
5055: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
5056: </strong></font><br>
5057:
5058: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
5059: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
5060: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
5061: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
5062: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
5063: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
5064: careful code reviews, he concludes.
5065: <p>
5066:
1.247 jufi 5067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 5068: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
5069: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
5070: </strong></font><br>
5071:
5072: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
5073: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
5074: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
5075: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
5076: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 5077: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
5078: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
5079: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 5080: <p>
1.247 jufi 5081: </ul>
1.131 louis 5082:
1.118 louis 5083: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5084: <ul>
1.118 louis 5085:
1.247 jufi 5086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 5087: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
5088: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
5089: </strong></font><br>
5090:
5091: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
5092: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
5093: about time. The article mentions that
5094: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
5095: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
5096: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 5097: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 5098: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
5099: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 5100: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 5101: <p>
5102:
1.247 jufi 5103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5104: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 5105: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 5106: </strong></font><br>
5107:
5108: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
5109: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
5110: of OpenSSH.
5111: <p>
5112:
1.247 jufi 5113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5114: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 5115: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 5116: </strong></font><br>
5117:
5118: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 5119: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 5120: bridging.
5121: <p>
5122:
1.247 jufi 5123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5124: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
5125: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 5126: </strong></font><br>
5127:
1.121 deraadt 5128: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
5129: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 5130: <p>
5131:
1.247 jufi 5132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5133: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
5134: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
5135: </strong></font><br>
5136:
5137: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
5138: <p>
5139:
1.247 jufi 5140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 5141: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 5142: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
5143: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 5144: </strong></font><br>
5145:
1.120 deraadt 5146: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
5147: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 5148: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
5149: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
5150: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
5151: <p>
5152:
1.247 jufi 5153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 5154: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
5155: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
5156: </strong></font><br>
5157:
1.222 miod 5158: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 5159: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
5160: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
5161: protocols and their quirks.
5162: <p>
5163:
1.247 jufi 5164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5165: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
5166: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 5167: </strong></font><br>
5168:
5169: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
5170: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
5171: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 5172: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 5173: <p>
5174:
1.247 jufi 5175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 5176: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
5177: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
5178: </strong></font><br>
5179:
5180: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
5181: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
5182: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
5183: <p>
5184:
1.247 jufi 5185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 5186: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 5187: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
5188: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 5189: </strong></font><br>
5190:
5191: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
5192: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
5193: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
5194: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
5195: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
5196: <p>
1.247 jufi 5197: </ul>
1.118 louis 5198:
1.104 louis 5199: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5200: <ul>
1.104 louis 5201:
1.247 jufi 5202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 5203: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
5204: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
5205: </strong></font><br>
5206:
5207: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
5208: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
5209: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
5210: be a bit dry.
5211: <p>
5212:
1.247 jufi 5213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 5214: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
5215: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
5216: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
5217: </strong></font><br>
5218: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
5219: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
5220: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
5221: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
5222: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
5223: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
5224: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
5225: <p>
5226:
1.247 jufi 5227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5228: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
5229: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 5230: 2000
1.128 louis 5231: </strong></font><br>
5232:
5233: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
5234: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
5235: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
5236: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
5237: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 5238: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 5239: <p>
5240:
1.247 jufi 5241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5242: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
5243: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 5244: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 5245:
5246: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
5247: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
5248: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
5249: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.585 steven 5250: <a href="faq/ports/index.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1.113 naddy 5251: <p>
1.110 louis 5252:
1.247 jufi 5253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 5254: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
5255: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
5256: </strong></font><br>
5257:
5258: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
5259: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
5260: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
5261: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
5262: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
5263: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
5264: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
5265: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
5266: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
5267: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
5268: <p>
5269:
1.247 jufi 5270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 5271: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5272: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 5273:
5274: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
5275: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 5276: <p>
1.108 louis 5277:
1.247 jufi 5278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 5279: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
5280: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 5281: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 5282:
5283: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
5284: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
5285: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 5286: <p>
1.106 louis 5287:
1.247 jufi 5288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 5289: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
5290: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 5291: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 5292:
5293: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
5294: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
5295: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
5296: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 5297: <p>
1.107 louis 5298:
1.247 jufi 5299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5300: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
5301: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5302: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 5303:
5304: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
5305: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 5306: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 5307: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
5308: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 5309: <p>
1.105 louis 5310:
1.247 jufi 5311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 5312: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 5313: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 5314: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 5315:
1.113 naddy 5316: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
5317: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 5318: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 5319: <p>
1.104 louis 5320:
1.247 jufi 5321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5322: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
5323: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
5324: </strong></font><br>
5325:
5326: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
5327: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
5328: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
5329: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
5330: <p>
1.301 jose 5331:
5332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5333: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.577 tobias 5334: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
1.301 jose 5335: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
5336:
5337: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
5338: hardware-supported cryptography.
5339: <p>
1.247 jufi 5340: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 5341:
1.85 louis 5342: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5343: <ul>
1.85 louis 5344:
1.247 jufi 5345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5346: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 5347: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 5348: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5349:
5350: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
5351: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
5352: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
5353: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
5354: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
5355: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
5356: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 5357: <p>
1.99 louis 5358:
1.247 jufi 5359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5360: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 5361: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5362: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 5363:
5364: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
5365: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
5366: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
5367: conditions.
1.113 naddy 5368: <p>
1.100 louis 5369:
1.247 jufi 5370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5371: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 5372: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5373: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 5374:
5375: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
5376: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
5377: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
5378: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 5379: <p>
1.95 louis 5380:
1.247 jufi 5381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5382: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 5383: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5384: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 5385:
5386: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
5387: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 5388: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 5389: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
5390: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5391: <p>
1.92 louis 5392:
1.247 jufi 5393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5394: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 5395: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5396: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 5397:
5398: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
5399: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
5400: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
5401: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
5402: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
5403: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 5404: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 5405: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 5406: <p>
1.91 louis 5407:
1.247 jufi 5408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5409: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
5410: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 5411: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5412:
5413: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
5414: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
5415: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
5416: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
5417: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
5418: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
5419: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
5420: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
5421: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 5422: <p>
1.90 louis 5423:
1.247 jufi 5424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5425: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
5426: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
5427: </strong></font><br>
5428: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
5429: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
5430: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
5431: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
5432: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
5433: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
5434: <p>
5435:
1.247 jufi 5436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 5437: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
5438: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5439: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 5440:
1.113 naddy 5441: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
5442: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 5443: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
5444: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
5445: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
5446: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
5447: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 5448: <p>
1.87 louis 5449:
1.247 jufi 5450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 5451: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
5452: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 5453: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5454:
5455: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 5456: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 5457: <p>
1.85 louis 5458:
1.247 jufi 5459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5460: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
5461: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
5462: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
5463:
5464: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
5465: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
5466: <p>
5467:
5468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 5469: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
5470: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5471: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 5472:
5473: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.577 tobias 5474: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 5475: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
5476: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 5477: <p>
1.89 louis 5478:
1.247 jufi 5479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5480: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 5481: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5482: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5483:
5484: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
5485: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
5486: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
5487: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
5488: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 5489: </ul>
1.85 louis 5490:
1.78 deraadt 5491: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5492: <ul>
1.74 louis 5493:
1.247 jufi 5494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5495: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 5496: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 5497: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 5498: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5499:
5500: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
5501: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
5502: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5503: <p>
1.83 louis 5504:
1.247 jufi 5505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 5506: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
5507: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5508: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 5509:
5510: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
5511: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 5512: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 5513: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
5514: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 5515: <p>
1.93 louis 5516:
1.247 jufi 5517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5518: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
5519: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
5520: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5521: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 5522:
1.83 louis 5523: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
5524: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
5525: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
5526: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
5527: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 5528: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
5529: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
5530: <p>
1.82 aaron 5531:
1.247 jufi 5532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5533: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 5534: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5535: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 5536:
1.83 louis 5537: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
5538: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
5539: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 5540: <p>
1.80 louis 5541:
1.247 jufi 5542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5543: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 5544: Bad Press</a>,
5545: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 5546: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 5547:
5548: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 5549: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 5550: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
5551: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
5552: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 5553: <p>
1.247 jufi 5554: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 5555:
5556: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5557: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 5558:
1.247 jufi 5559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5560: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
5561: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 5562: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 5563: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 5564:
5565: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
5566: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
5567: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
5568: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 5569: <p>
1.74 louis 5570:
1.247 jufi 5571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 5572: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
5573: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 5574: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5575:
1.219 horacio 5576: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
5577: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
5578: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
5579: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
5580: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
5581: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
5582: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 5583: <p>
1.88 louis 5584:
1.247 jufi 5585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 5586: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 5587: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 5588: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 5589:
5590: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
5591: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
5592: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
5593: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 5594: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 5595: <p>
1.81 louis 5596:
1.247 jufi 5597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5598: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 5599: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5600: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5601:
5602: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
5603: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
5604: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
5605: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
5606: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
5607: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
5608: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 5609: <p>
1.90 louis 5610:
1.247 jufi 5611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5612: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 5613: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5614: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 5615:
5616: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
5617: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
5618: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 5619: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 5620: <p>
1.247 jufi 5621: </ul>
1.71 louis 5622:
1.69 deraadt 5623: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5624: <ul>
1.70 louis 5625:
1.247 jufi 5626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5627: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5628: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5629: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5630:
5631: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5632: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5633: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5634: <p>
1.70 louis 5635:
1.247 jufi 5636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5637: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5638: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5639: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5640:
5641: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5642: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5643: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5644: <p>
1.68 louis 5645:
1.247 jufi 5646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5647: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5648: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5649: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5650: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5651:
1.111 jufi 5652: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5653: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5654: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5655: "secure by default" installation.
5656: <p>
1.64 louis 5657:
1.247 jufi 5658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5659: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5660: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5661: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5662:
1.113 naddy 5663: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5664: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5665: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5666: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5667: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5668: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5669: <p>
1.66 louis 5670:
1.247 jufi 5671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5672: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5673: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5674: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5675:
5676: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5677: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5678: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5679: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5680: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5681: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5682: <p>
1.83 louis 5683:
1.247 jufi 5684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5685: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5686: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5687: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5688:
5689: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5690: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5691: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5692: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5693: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5694: <p>
1.64 louis 5695:
1.247 jufi 5696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5697: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5698: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5699: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5700:
5701: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5702: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5703: <p>
1.301 jose 5704:
5705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5706: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5707: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5708: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5709: </strong></font><br>
5710:
5711: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5712: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5713: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5714: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5715: Giving way to
5716: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5717: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5718: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5719: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5720: <p>
1.247 jufi 5721: </ul>
1.65 louis 5722:
1.69 deraadt 5723: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5724: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5725:
1.247 jufi 5726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5727: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5728: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5729: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5730:
5731: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5732: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5733: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5734: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5735: <p>
1.88 louis 5736:
1.247 jufi 5737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5738: <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 5739: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5740:
5741: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5742: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5743: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5744: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5745: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5746: <p>
1.60 louis 5747:
1.247 jufi 5748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5749: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5750: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5751: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5752: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5753:
5754: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5755: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5756: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5757: <p>
1.58 louis 5758:
1.247 jufi 5759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5760: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5761: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5762:
5763: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5764: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5765: <p>
1.53 louis 5766:
1.247 jufi 5767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5768: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5769: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5770: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5771:
5772: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5773: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5774: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5775: <p>
1.99 louis 5776:
1.247 jufi 5777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5778: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5779: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5780:
5781: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5782: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5783: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5784: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5785: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5786:
1.247 jufi 5787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5788: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5789: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5790: </strong></font><br>
5791:
5792: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5793: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5794: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5795: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5796: <p>
5797:
1.247 jufi 5798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5799: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5800: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5801: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5802:
5803: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5804: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5805: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5806:
1.247 jufi 5807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5808: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5809: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5810:
5811: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5812: in
1.247 jufi 5813: <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 5814: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5815: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5816: <p>
1.53 louis 5817:
1.247 jufi 5818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5819: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5820: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5821: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5822: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5823:
1.58 louis 5824: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5825: <p>
1.301 jose 5826:
5827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5828: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5829: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5830: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5831: Informacyjny, January 2000
5832: </strong></font><br>
5833:
5834: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5835: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5836: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5837: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5838: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5839: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5840: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5841: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5842: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5843: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5844: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5845: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5846: <p>
5847:
5848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5849: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5850: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5851: </strong></font><br>
5852:
5853: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5854: <p>
5855: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5856:
1.69 deraadt 5857: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5858: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5859:
1.247 jufi 5860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5861: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5862: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5863: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5864: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5865:
1.58 louis 5866: Kurt Seifried
5867: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5868: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5869: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5870: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5871:
1.247 jufi 5872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5873: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5874: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5875: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5876:
5877: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5878: <p>
1.96 louis 5879:
1.247 jufi 5880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5881: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5882: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5883: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5884: </strong></font><br>
5885:
5886: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5887: <p>
5888:
5889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5890: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5891: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5892: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5893:
5894: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5895: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5896: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5897: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5898: <p>
1.247 jufi 5899: </ul>
1.86 louis 5900:
1.69 deraadt 5901: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5902: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5903:
1.247 jufi 5904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5905: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5906: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5907: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5908:
5909: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5910: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5911: <p>
1.61 louis 5912:
1.247 jufi 5913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5914: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5915: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5916: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5917: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5918:
5919: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5920: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5921: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5922: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5923: right -- or at least strives to".
5924: <p>
1.48 louis 5925:
1.247 jufi 5926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5927: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5928: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5929: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5930: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5931: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5932: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5933: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5934: <p>
1.61 louis 5935:
1.247 jufi 5936: <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 5937: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5938: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5939:
5940: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5941: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5942: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5943: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5944: <p>
1.46 louis 5945:
1.247 jufi 5946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5947: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5948: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5949: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5950:
5951: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5952: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5953: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5954:
1.247 jufi 5955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5956: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5957: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5958: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5959:
5960: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5961: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5962: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5963: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5964: <p>
1.247 jufi 5965: </ul>
1.70 louis 5966:
1.69 deraadt 5967: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5968: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5969:
1.247 jufi 5970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5971: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5972: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5973: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5974: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5975:
5976: Kurt Seifried
5977: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5978: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5979: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5980: <p>
1.44 philen 5981:
1.247 jufi 5982: <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 5983: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5984: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5985:
5986: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5987: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5988:
1.247 jufi 5989: <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 5990: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5991: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5992:
5993: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5994: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5995:
1.247 jufi 5996: <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 5997: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5998: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5999:
6000: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
6001: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
6002: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
6003: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 6004: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 6005:
1.247 jufi 6006: <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 6007: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 6008: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 6009:
1.36 louis 6010: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 6011: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 6012:
1.247 jufi 6013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6014: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 6015: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 6016: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 6017:
6018: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 6019: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 6020: </ul>
1.38 louis 6021:
1.69 deraadt 6022: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6023: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6024:
1.247 jufi 6025: <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 6026: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 6027: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 6028:
6029: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
6030: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 6031: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 6032:
1.113 naddy 6033: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 6034: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 6035: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 6036: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 6037:
6038: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
6039: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 6040: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
6041: terminal:
1.113 naddy 6042: <blockquote>
6043: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
6044: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
6045: <br>
6046: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
6047: </code>
6048: </blockquote>
6049: <p>
6050:
1.247 jufi 6051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 6052: <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 6053: <p>
6054:
6055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6056: <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 6057: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 6058:
6059: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
6060: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 6061: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 6062: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 6063:
1.247 jufi 6064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 6065: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
6066: Sept. 28, 1999
6067: </strong></font><br>
6068:
6069: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
6070: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
6071: translating and reprinting articles from
6072: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
6073: <p>
6074:
6075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 6076: <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 6077: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 6078:
6079: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
6080: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
6081: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
6082: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
6083: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 6084: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 6085: <p>
1.19 louis 6086:
1.113 naddy 6087: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 6088: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 6089: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 6090:
6091: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
6092: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
6093: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 6094: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
6095: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 6096: <p>
1.16 louis 6097:
1.247 jufi 6098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6099: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 6100: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 6101: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 6102:
1.57 louis 6103: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
6104: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
6105: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 6106: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 6107:
1.247 jufi 6108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6109: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 6110: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 6111: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6112:
1.113 naddy 6113: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 6114:
1.247 jufi 6115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 6116: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
6117: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 6118: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 6119:
1.23 louis 6120: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
6121: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
6122: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
6123: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
6124: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 6125: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 6126:
1.247 jufi 6127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 6128: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
6129: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 6130: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 6131:
1.199 pvalchev 6132: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 6133: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
6134: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
6135: installation.
1.113 naddy 6136: <p>
1.47 louis 6137:
1.247 jufi 6138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6139: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 6140: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 6141: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6142:
1.301 jose 6143: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
6144: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
6145: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 6146: </ul>
1.57 louis 6147:
1.69 deraadt 6148: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6149: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6150:
1.247 jufi 6151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 6152: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 6153: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 6154: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 6155:
6156: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
6157: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 6158: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6159: <p>
1.12 louis 6160:
1.247 jufi 6161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 6162: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 6163: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 6164: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 6165:
6166: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
6167: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 6168: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
6169: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
6170: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
6171: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
6172: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 6173: <p>
1.247 jufi 6174: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 6175:
1.69 deraadt 6176: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6177: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 6178:
1.247 jufi 6179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 6180: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 6181: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 6182:
6183: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
6184: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
6185: available."
1.113 naddy 6186: <p>
1.301 jose 6187:
6188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6189: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
6190: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
6191: </strong></font><br>
6192:
6193: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
6194: <p>
1.247 jufi 6195: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 6196:
1.69 deraadt 6197: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6198: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6199:
1.247 jufi 6200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 6201: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 6202: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 6203:
6204: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
6205: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
6206: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
6207: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
6208: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 6209: <p>
1.33 louis 6210:
1.247 jufi 6211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6212: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 6213: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 6214: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6215:
1.113 naddy 6216: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
6217: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 6218: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
6219: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
6220: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 6221: <p>
1.247 jufi 6222: </ul>
1.57 louis 6223:
1.69 deraadt 6224: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6225: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6226:
1.247 jufi 6227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6228: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 6229: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 6230: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6231:
6232: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
6233: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 6234: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6235:
1.247 jufi 6236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 6237: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
6238: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
6239: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 6240: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 6241:
6242: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 6243: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 6244:
1.247 jufi 6245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6246: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6247:
1.113 naddy 6248: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 6249:
1.247 jufi 6250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6251: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 6252: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 6253: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6254:
6255: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 6256: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 6257: </ul>
1.23 louis 6258:
1.69 deraadt 6259: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6260: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6261:
1.247 jufi 6262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 6263: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 6264: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6265:
6266: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
6267: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 6268: <p>
1.2 deraadt 6269:
1.247 jufi 6270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6271: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 6272: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 6273: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6274:
6275: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
6276: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 6277: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 6278: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 6279: </ul>
1.57 louis 6280:
1.69 deraadt 6281: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6282: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6283:
1.247 jufi 6284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6285: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 6286: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 6287: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 6288:
6289: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
6290: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
6291: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
6292: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6293: <p>
1.15 louis 6294:
1.247 jufi 6295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6296: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
6297: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 6298: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6299:
6300: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
6301: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
6302: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
6303: columns."
1.113 naddy 6304: <p>
1.247 jufi 6305: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6306:
1.69 deraadt 6307: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6308: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6309:
1.247 jufi 6310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6311: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 6312: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 6313: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 6314:
6315: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 6316: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 6317:
1.113 naddy 6318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6319: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 6320: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6321:
6322: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
6323: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 6324: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 6325: </ul>
1.57 louis 6326:
1.69 deraadt 6327: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6328: <ul>
1.301 jose 6329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6330: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
6331: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6332: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
6333:
6334: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
6335: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
6336: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
6337: <p>
6338:
6339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6340: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
6341: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6342: Nov 13, 1998 and
6343: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
6344: Datateknik</a>,
6345: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
6346:
1.380 saad 6347: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 6348: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
6349: explains the licensing issues and points to our
6350: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
6351: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6352:
1.113 naddy 6353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6354: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 6355: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 6356: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6357:
1.222 miod 6358: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 6359: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
6360: Implementation, including a brief interview with
6361: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 6362: <p>
1.247 jufi 6363: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6364:
1.69 deraadt 6365: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6366: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6367:
1.247 jufi 6368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6369: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 6370: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6371:
1.69 deraadt 6372: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
6373: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 6374: <p>
1.247 jufi 6375: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6376:
1.69 deraadt 6377: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6378: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 6379:
1.247 jufi 6380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6381: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
6382: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 6383: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6384:
1.383 jcs 6385: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 6386: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 6387: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6388:
1.247 jufi 6389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 6390: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 6391: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
6392: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 6393: <p>
1.247 jufi 6394: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6395:
1.69 deraadt 6396: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6397: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6398:
1.247 jufi 6399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6400: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 6401: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
6402: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 6403: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 6404: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6405:
6406: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
6407: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
6408: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 6409: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 6410: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 6411: <p>
1.247 jufi 6412: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 6413:
6414: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6415: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6416:
1.247 jufi 6417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6418: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 6419: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 6420:
1.69 deraadt 6421: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
6422: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 6423: <p>
1.112 naddy 6424:
1.247 jufi 6425: </ul>
1.113 naddy 6426: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6427:
1.292 camield 6428: <hr>
1.216 horacio 6429: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 6430: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.590 ! ian 6431: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.589 2010/12/14 15:01:22 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 6432:
6433: </body>
6434: </html>
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