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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.591 ian 19: <h2>April, 2011</h2>
20: <ul>
21:
22: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
1.592 ian 23: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110420080633'>
1.591 ian 24: A Puffy in the Corporate Aquarium</a>
25: undeadly.org, April 20, 2011
26: </strong></font><br>
27: Antoine Ajacoutot offers a detailed write-up on exactly how his
28: employer M:Tier supports OpenBSD for corporate use, surprisingly
29: both on desktops and on servers. They have converted whole companies
30: to OpenBSD; under the heading of "Joe User meets OpenBSD", he reports
31: on how even long-time MS-Windows users can get used to switching to
32: OpenOffice and Gnome desktop.
33: <p>
34:
35: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
36: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/14274/original/FreeBSD_Portability_With_VMware_BSD_04_2011.pdf'>
37: OpenBSD improves upon /etc/rc.d/</a>
38: BSDmag, April, 2011, p. 12
1.593 ian 39: </strong></font>(PDF download of entire issue)<br>
1.591 ian 40: As OpenBSD moves away from requiring manual editing of /etc/rc for most daemons,
41: Ian Darwin covers the new rc.d mechanism.
42: "The OpenBSD developers did not adopt a change like this until they
43: were sure they had a mechanism that was both simple to implement
44: and simple to use."
45: <p>
46:
47: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
48: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/14274/original/FreeBSD_Portability_With_VMware_BSD_04_2011.pdf'>
49: Build appliances with QEMU and OpenBSD</a>
50: BSDmag, April, 2011, p. 24
1.593 ian 51: </strong></font>(PDF download of entire issue)<br>
1.591 ian 52: Girish Venkatachalam shows how easy it is to create ready-to-run disk images
53: containing OpenBSD with whatever ports/packages you want to add,
54: that are shareable for use by anyone, either under QEMU or on bare metal.
55: <p>
56: </ul>
57:
1.590 ian 58: <h2>March, 2011</h2>
59: <ul>
60: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
61: <a href='http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/?p=605'>
62: My OpenBSD Story: Memories of a Network disaster</a>
63: Blather.MichaelWLucas.com, March 9, 2011
64: </strong></font><br>
65: It was a dark and stormy night back in 2000, a very long night, as Michael Lucas (who would later author
66: Absolute OpenBSD) struggled to get his company's hosting service back online.
67: You can probably guess that the happy ending involves "OpenBSD to the rescue".
68: <p>
69:
70: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
71: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/14202/original/The_Wonders_Of_Blender_BSD_03_2011.pdf'>
72: How To Setup OpenBSD On The Embedded Alix</a>,
73: BSD Mag, March, 2011, p. 30
1.593 ian 74: </strong></font>(PDF download of entire issue)<br>
1.590 ian 75: Guillaume Duale tells how to install our favorite OS on the popular embedded-size ALIX card.
76: <p>
77:
78: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
79: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/14202/original/The_Wonders_Of_Blender_BSD_03_2011.pdf'>
80: Run Your Phone System on OpenBSD</a>,
81: BSD Mag, March, 2011, p. 12
1.593 ian 82: </strong></font>(PDF download of entire issue)<br>
1.590 ian 83: Ian Darwin describes running some home/office telephone systems on Asterisk
84: on a secure operating system - what works, what doesn't (and why),
85: and how to get started.
86: <p>
87:
88: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
89: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/14202/original/The_Wonders_Of_Blender_BSD_03_2011.pdf'>
90: Useful OpenBSD Tools</a>,
91: BSD Mag, March, 2011, p. 42
1.593 ian 92: </strong></font>(PDF download of entire issue)<br>
1.590 ian 93: Girish Venkatachalam describes a panoply of tools that he finds useful on OpenBSD, to wit,
94: dump(8) and restore(8), qemu, sha1, ifconfig, relayd and spamd.
95: <p>
96:
97: </ul>
98:
99: <h2>February, 2011</h2>
100: <ul>
101: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
102: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/'>
103: Your OpenBSD Story</a>
104: undeadly.org, February, 2011
105: </strong></font><br>
106: Undeadly is running a series of stories on how people got started with OpenBSD.
107: Most tell what they like about the system.
108: Since OpenBSD runs well on minimal hardware, many of the stories involve
109: solving an under-funding crisis at startups.
110: See those by
111: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110227014419'> Daniel Gracia</a>,
112: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110303020219'> Nick Humphrey</a>, and
113: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110308003706'> Henrik Kramshoe</a>
114: <p>
115:
116: </ul>
117:
118: <h2>January, 2011</h2>
119: <ul>
120: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
121: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/13827/original/BSDs_and_Solaris_BSD_01_2011.pdf'>
122: Text Terminal magic with tmux</a>
123: BSD Mag, January, 2011, p. 20
124: </strong></font>(PDF download)<br>
125: Tmux(1) is OpenBSD's replacement for GNU screen(1) terminal multiplexor.
126: Girish Venkatachalam discusses tmux's advantages and how to use it.
127: <p>
128:
129:
130: </ul>
131:
132:
1.589 ian 133: <h2>December, 2010</h2>
134: <ul>
135: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
136: <a href='http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4833'>
137: Use firewall software like PF to protect your desktop systems</a>
138: techrepublic.com, December 13, 2010
139: </strong></font><br>
140: A good overview of the importance of using a firewall for the semi-technical crowd.
141: "One of the most highly regarded suites of firewall software is the OpenBSD project's PF,
142: which has been ported to every major BSD Unix system..."
143: Gives a single example of a pf rules file; one of the comments gives
144: links to additional references.
145: <p>
146:
147: </ul>
148:
1.586 ian 149: <h2>November, 2010</h2>
150: <ul>
151:
152: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
153: <a href='http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODc0NA'>
154: OpenBSD 4.8 Brings Improved Hardware Support</a>
155: www.phoronix.com, November 1, 2010
156: </strong></font><br>
157: Good coverage of the release: new drivers, new features, and more.
158: <p>
159:
160: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
161: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20101101163826'>
162: OpenBSD 4.8 Released!</a>
163: www.undeadly.org, November 1, 2010
164: </strong></font><br>
165: Undeadly mentions the release; this article has a full list of the
166: enhancements and improvements.
167: <p>
168:
169: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
170: <a href='http://www.osnews.com/story/23978/OpenBSD_4_8_Released'>
171: OpenBSD 4.8 Released</a>
1.587 ian 172: www.osnews.com, November 1, 2010
1.586 ian 173: </strong></font><br>
174: OSNews again is one of the first out with coverage of the 4.8 release,
175: although it's just a summary this time out.
176: <p>
177:
178: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
179: <a href='http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=openbsd'>
180: DistroWatch.com: OpenBSD</a>
181: distrowatch.com, November 1, 2010
182: </strong></font><br>
183: DistroWatch has a list of many links related to OpenBSD,
184: and have updated their site to reflect the 4.8 release.
185: <p>
186:
187: </ul>
1.584 jasper 188:
189: <h2>September, 2009</h2>
190: <ul>
191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
192: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1393496">
193: Security in your pocket: OpenBSD on ARM</a>, informIT, September 11, 2009
194: </strong></font><br>
195: Interview with Dale Rahn (drahn@) about OpenBSD on ARM handheld systems and
196: why users and vendors should consider it as a real alternative.
197: <p>
198: </ul>
199:
1.582 grunk 200: <h2>January, 2009</h2>
201: <ul>
202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
203: [GERMAN]
204: <a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre105.html">
205: OpenBSD -- Technik und Entwicklerkultur des alternativen Betriebssystems
206: </a>, Chaosradio Express, January 28, 2009</strong></font><br>
207: OpenBSD developer Felix Kronlage (fkr@openbsd.org) in interview
208: with Chaosradio Express host Tim Pritlove from the Chaos Computer Club.
209: <p>
210: </ul>
211:
1.581 ian 212: <h2>April, 2008</h2>
213: <ul>
214:
215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
216: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/19700/OpenBSD_4.3_Released">
217: OpenBSD 4.3 Released</a>, OSNews, April 30, 2008
218: </strong></font><br>
219: OSNews is among the first to mention the newest release:
220: "Theo de Raadt has lifted the veil off OpenBSD 4.3. <i>We are pleased
221: to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.3. This is our 23nd
222: release on CD-ROM (and 24rd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's
223: record of more than ten years with only two remote holes in the
224: default install.</i> Boasting as always, but when it's justified,
225: arrogance is a virtue."
226: <p>
227:
228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
229: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2008/04/29/puffy-and-the-crytonauts-whats-new-in-openbsd-43.html">
230: Puffy and the Cryptonauts: What's New in OpenBSD 4.3</a>, onLamp, April 29, 2008
231: </strong></font><br>
232: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD developers
233: about the changes in the 4.3 release, providing a more comprehensive overview
234: than others.
235: Topics range across
236: networking (including new and improved drivers, and our own SNMP implementation),
237: storage (faster flash, bigger disk support),
238: platforms (Sparc64 SMP, audio drivers),
239: kernel improvements, malloc support, read/write cleanups, and much more.
240: <p>
241:
242: </ul>
243:
1.573 ian 244: <h2>November, 2007</h2>
245: <ul>
246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.574 ian 247: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/87">
248: Using OpenBSD 4.2</a>, Software In Review, November 5, 2007
249: </strong></font><br>
250: Jem Matzem advocates using OpenBSD and shows readers how to get
251: started and some hints on using the system after it's installed,
252: including setting up ports/packages to use third-party software.
253: Under the "For More Information" category, he acknowledges that
254: "OpenBSD has the most thorough, easy to follow native documentation
255: of any Unix-like operating system..."
256: <p>
257:
258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
259: <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/a_few_cheers_fo.html">
260: A Few Cheers For OpenBSD</a>, Information Week, November 2, 2007
261: </strong></font><br>
262: "With all of the hollering about Linux..., there's another open-source
263: operating system that just celebrated getting a new 4.2 release out
264: the door. It's one that hasn't been quite as widely-celebrated as
265: Linux but is still deeply important in its own way: OpenBSD"
266: Talks about how BSD is real UNIX, and what that means, and our
267: security policy "secure by default".
268: Ends with a reminder that Linux is
269: "not the only open-source, Unix-like game in town."
270: <p>
271:
272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.573 ian 273: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/7155">
274: Puffy's Marathon: What's New in OpenBSD 4.2</a>, onLamp, Nov 1, 2007
275: </strong></font><br>
276: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed almost two dozen OpenBSD developers
277: and combined their comments into this interview. Opens with:
278: "...this release comes with some amazing performance improvements: basic
279: benchmarks showed PF being twice as fast, a rewrite of the TLB
280: shootdown code for i386 and amd64 cut the time to do a full package
281: build by 20 percent (mostly because all the forks in configure
282: scripts have become much cheaper), and the improved frequency scaling
283: on MP systems can help save nearly 20 percent of battery power.
284: <p>
285: "And then the new features: FFS2, support for the Advanced Host
286: Controller Interface, IP balancing in CARP, layer 7 manipulation
287: with hoststated, Xenocara, and more!"
288: <p>
289: And goes on to discuss each of these and more with the good folk
290: who make it happen.
291: <p>
292:
293: </ul>
294:
1.572 ian 295: <h2>July, 2007</h2>
296: <ul>
297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
298: <a href="http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/797/openbsd-encrypted-nas-howto">
1.578 ian 299: OpenBSD Encrypted NAS How-To</a>, geektechnique.org, July 15, 2007
1.572 ian 300: </strong></font><br>
301: Mark Hoekstra gives a detailed step-by-step description of how to
302: build an encrypted
303: network storage box using off-the-shelf hardware and OpenBSD software.
304: <br>
305: Also reported in
306: <a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/07/16/002203.shtml">SlashDot
307: </a> and
308: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/news.php?id=14877">net-security</a>.
309: <p>
310:
311: </ul>
312:
1.569 ian 313: <h2>May, 2007</h2>
314: <ul>
315:
316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.570 simon 317: [GERMAN]
318: OpenBSD 4.1 bietet Lastverteilung auf Layer 7,
319: iX magazine, May 18, 2007
320: </strong></font><br>
321: The German IT magazine iX reviews the new hoststated(8) Host Status Daemon that
322: comes with OpenBSD 4.1. The article describes various configurations including
323: SSL acceleration and gives a good insight into what hoststated(8) can do for the
324: reader.
325: <p>
326:
327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.569 ian 328: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html">
329: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again</a>, ONLamp, May 5, 2007
330: </strong></font><br>
331: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a number of developers about the major
332: changes in 4.1: Mark Kettenis on UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC T1;
333: Otto Moerbeek on the landisk port and fsck_ffs;
334: Artur Grabowski on rthreads and AMD64 timekeeping;
335: Kurt Miller on pthreads and, with Robert Nagy, on OpenOffice;
336: Marc Espie on the changes "under the hood" in
337: the package tools and on the new pkg_config;
338: Matthieu Herrb on our new X11 build system xenocara,
1.575 tobias 339: Henning Brauer on syslogd, hoststated and RSTP;
1.569 ian 340: Henning and Claudio Jeker on a variety of topics in routing and PF;
341: Bob Beck on spam fighting;
342: and Jonathan Gray on WEP and on why authpf is better than WPA/WPA2.
343: Quite readable overview of some of the main issues in this release.
1.582 grunk 344: <br>
345: Linked to from
1.569 ian 346: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17851/OpenBSD-4.1-Puffy-Strikes-Again/">OSNews</a>.
347: Mentions of the release also appeared in
348: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1483">Tectonic</a>,
349: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/07/05/02/1320248.shtml">Newsforge</a>
350: and
351: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/07/05/01/2231229.shtml">SlashDot</a>
352: (the latter two include pointers to official release announcements).
353: <p>
354:
355: </ul>
356:
1.565 ian 357: <h2>April, 2007</h2>
358: <ul>
359:
360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
361: <a href="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1522252">
362: Reducing spam with OpenBSD and spamd</a>, Linux.com, April 11, 2007
363: </strong></font><br>
364: This is the first installment of a multi-part article on using OpenBSD's
365: anti-spam tools. This part contains a general overview of spamd, greylisting
366: and tarpitting. Later installments will cover the how-to details.
367: <p>
368:
369:
370: </ul>
371:
1.560 ian 372: <h2>March, 2007</h2>
373: <ul>
374:
375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.564 ian 376: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/bsdtalk105-intro-to-pf-with-jason-dixon.html">
377: Introduction to PF with Jason Dixon</a>, BSDTalk 105, March 26, 2007
378: </strong></font><br>
379: Jason provides a nice general overview of OpenBSD's Packet Filter PF,
380: emphasizing the "why" rather than the "how" of using PF.
381: Goes over pf's history, initial setup, stateful filtering,
382: normalization with "scrub", use of synproxy, authpf,
383: CARP and pfsync, GUI configurations vs config files, the pfsense project,
1.576 martynas 384: logging, transparent bridges, AltQ queuing, macros, lists and tables,
1.579 ian 385: and the tie-in to spamd.
1.564 ian 386: <p>
387:
388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.582 grunk 389: <a href="http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=30120&hilite=">
1.560 ian 390: Welsh Government Agency demonstrates Open Source best practice</a>,
391: SourceWire, March 8, 2007
392: </strong></font><br>
1.562 ian 393: The Countryside Council for Wales, the UK Government's regional wildlife
394: conservation authority for Wales, has hired UK Open Source service provider Sirius
1.561 saad 395: Corporation to extend OpenBSD's interoperability with the proprietary
396: Cisco IOS software; part of the agreement calls for Sirius to contribute
397: its source changes back to the OpenBSD project.
1.560 ian 398: <p>
399:
400: </ul>
1.558 ian 401:
1.556 matthieu 402: <h2>February, 2007</h2>
403: <ul>
404:
405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.558 ian 406: <a href="http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/is_symantecs_vista_security_assessment_credible.html">
407: Is Symantec's Vista Security Assessment Credible?</a>, Microsoft Watch, February 28, 2007
408: </strong></font><br>
409: This paper is nominally about the relationship between Symantec and Microsoft,
410: talking about a white paper released by the former.
411: But it's quite revealing about Microsoft itself.
412: "Even Microsoft... now acknowledges that UAC (User Account Control) -
413: Vista's most [high-]profile security feature - is vulnerable to subversion,
414: particularly through social-engineering tactics."
415: And while the Symantec report says some good things about Vista security,
416: "its criticisms are brutal - for their clarity and foreboding:
417: <blockquote>
418: "Many of the technologies that Microsoft has employed to bolster
419: the security of Windows Vista are not new. In fact, most are
420: derived from the groundwork originally laid by open-source
421: operating systems such as Linux and OpenBSD, the PaX and
422: Stackguard projects, as well as numerous academic publications....
423: The majority of these technologies first appeared in Windows
424: XP SP2 [Service Pack 2]. Windows XP SP2, at the time of its
425: release, was also billed as the most secure version of Windows."
426: </blockquote>
427: So remember, folks, if it's about security, you may well have heard it
428: here first, long before Microsoft "invented" it.
429: <p>
430:
431:
432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.557 reyk 433: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85495">
434: OpenBSD und Linux: Kritik an Stillhalteabkommen für Treiberentwicklung</a>, heise online, February 2, 2007
435: </strong></font><br>
436:
437: Short article about OpenBSD's clear statement against device driver
438: development under non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
439: It attempts to summarize the reaction of the OpenBSD community against the
440: <a href="http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html">"Free Linux Driver Development"</a>
441: under NDA offered by the linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman which previously raised some
442: discussion.
443: Code written under NDA will make it difficult to improve it in the future
444: because somebody signed an agreement to keep the required hardware
445: documentation secret. For the OpenBSD project
446: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html">NDAs are never acceptable</a>.
447: <p>
448:
449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.556 matthieu 450: [FRENCH]
451: <a href="http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?produit=462">GNU/Linux
452: Magazine France</a> special issue number 29
453: </strong></font>
454: is dedicated to BSD systems. It features several articles about
455: OpenBSD: a pf tutorial, an article on IPSec and two articles on
456: high-availability with pf and CARP and with dynamic routing protocols
457: using OpenOSPFd and OpenBGPd.
458: <p>
459:
460: </ul>
461:
1.558 ian 462: <h2>January, 2007</h2>
463: <ul>
464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
465: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html">
466: Greylisting with PF</a>, O'Reilly onLAMP, January 18, 2007
467: </strong></font><br>
468: This onLAMP article by Dan Langille leads you through the process of
1.559 ian 469: setting up greylisting using OpenBSD's pf and spamd, which has now been ported
1.558 ian 470: to most other BSD systems. The article is
471: quite detailed, but readers should ignore the FreeBSD-specific stuff
472: like kldload (OpenBSD uses modload, but, OpenBSD always has pf built-in
473: so you don't need this). Parts of the article are based on Bob Beck's
474: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/speakers#Beck">spamd talk at NYCBSDCon</a>.
475: <p>
476:
477: </ul>
478:
1.550 mbalmer 479: <h2>December, 2006</h2>
480: <ul>
481:
482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.554 reyk 483: [GERMAN]
484: <a href="http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=15206">
485: 23C3: Interview mit Henning und Reyk von OpenBSD</a>,
486: Radio Unerhört Marbug, December 29, 2006
487: </strong></font><br>
488: Interview with Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter about OpenBSD and
489: the latest changes since 4.0 during the 23rd Chaos Communications
490: Congress in Berlin.
491: <p>
492:
493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.552 ian 494: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/01OPsecadvise_1.html">
1.553 ian 495: New Year's Resolution No. 1: Get OpenBSD</a>,
1.552 ian 496: InfoWorld, December 29, 2006
497: </strong></font><br>
498: InfoWorld's Security Advisor columnist Roger A. Grimes says:
499: "Kick off 2007 with a new, more secure operating system."
500: Citing OpenBSD's code-auditing security process and its
501: excellent security record, Grimes advises readers to give the system a try.
502: Despite repeating some old canards about the "unfriendly" install, he
503: notes favorably that
504: "OpenBSD is shipped secure-by-default, with all non-essential services disabled.
505: You won't find NFS, mountd, or Apache [httpd] enabled by default.
506: The /bin and /sbin folders will be emptier than other Linux or BSD distros.
507: Install OpenBSD and you can be assured that it doesn't default to an insecure state."
508: <p>
509:
510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.551 xsa 511: [GERMAN]
1.550 mbalmer 512: <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2007/01/074/">
513: OpenBSD 4.0 - Kanadische Eröffnung</a>
514: iX magazine, December 14, 2006
515: </strong></font><br>
1.570 simon 516: The German IT magazine iX reviews the 4.0 release of OpenBSD and also mentions
1.550 mbalmer 517: why we don't support blobs and why this is beneficial to our users.
518: The article gives OpenBSD a very good rating for being strictly free software,
519: its swift installation, the support for upgrades, and the large number of
520: platforms and architectures it runs on.
521: <p>
522:
523: </ul>
524:
1.546 ian 525: <h2>November, 2006</h2>
526: <ul>
527:
1.549 ian 528: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
1.582 grunk 529: <a href='http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061110204834'>
1.549 ian 530: Official support for OpenBSD in Parallels Workstation</a>
531: undeadly.org, November 10, 2006
532: </strong></font><br>
533: OpenBSD is now supported by Parallels, a commercial OS
534: virtualization product for Mac OS X, Linux or MS-Windows.
535: In addition to allowing users to run both OpenBSD and one of those other
536: systems concurrently, the announcement means that developers with Intel Mac
537: hardware can run multiple test systems; the Undeadly Editor adds:
538: "I've had up to six OpenBSD guest systems operating simultaneously,
539: versions 3.8 through 4.0 (and -current)."
540: This also reinforces the increasing commercial acceptance of our favorite OS.
541: <p>
542:
543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
544: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/bsdtalk082-openbsd-developer-jason.html">
545: Interview with Jason Wright</a>, BSDTalk 82, November 8, 2006
546: </strong></font><br>
547: Jason talks about the OpenBSD development process (particularly for device drivers
548: and getting hardware documentation from vendors), Sun SPARC hardware (particularly
549: the Ultra III), ham radio (APRS) with OpenBSD, and more.
550: <p>
551:
552: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
553: <a href='http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132572.html'>
554: OpenBSD turns 4.0</a>
555: CNET News.com, November 3, 2006
556: </strong></font><br>
557: Stephen Shankland talks about the UltraSPARC III code in 4.0, and notes that
558: OpenBSD has chosen to stay with stable GCC versions rather than moving to
559: the latest and most bloated GCC versions like Linux did.
560: Quotes Theo as saying: OpenBSD doesn't aim for particular niches,
561: but it's popular in network applications... "The biggest
562: users of OpenBSD these days are people who need our fancy networking
563: features..."
564: <p>
565:
1.546 ian 566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
567: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/55/">
568: OpenBSD 4.0 Review</a>, Software In Review, November 1, 2006
569: </strong></font><br>
570: "In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed
571: back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are
572: almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or
573: months, it's nice to know that at least one operating system releases
574: on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems.
575: OpenBSD 4.0 was released on November 1 with its usual mix of new
576: hardware support and enhanced operating system features."
577: So opens Jem Matzam's review of the new 4.0 release.
578: Jem gives a brief overview of the project, discusses
579: several of the most important new features, evaluates
580: his installation and use of the system on a desktop and a notebook.
1.548 saad 581: He also offers a few recommendations for future developments to make
1.546 ian 582: the project even better.
583: There's even a link to the Wikipedia article on
584: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa">
585: Humppa</a>, for those who may have heard this term but not
586: the music behind it.
587: <p>
588:
1.547 ian 589: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
590: <a href='http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1243'>
591: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today</a>
592: Tectonic, November 1, 2006
593: </strong></font><br>
594: "With his characteristic no-frills approach OpenBSD team leader
595: Theo de Raadt this morning announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0."
596: This article lists the highlights of the 4.0 release and
597: tells readers where to order CD's or download the release.
598: Quotes Theo: ""We are pleased to announce the official release of
599: OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-Rom (and 21st via FTP).
600: We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single
601: remote hole in the default install,"
602: <p>
603:
604: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
605: <a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8123.html'>
606: OpenBSD 4.0 released</a>
607: Ars Technica, November 1, 2006
608: </strong></font><br>
609: A short note about the 4.0 release; refers to the O'ReillyNet article below.
610: <p>
611:
1.546 ian 612: </ul>
613:
1.539 ian 614: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
615: <ul>
1.540 ian 616:
617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.546 ian 618: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6769">
619: OpenBSD 4.0: Pufferix's Adventures</a>, O'Reilly Network, October 26, 2006
620: </strong></font><br>
621: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a dozen and a half developers and compiled
622: the results into this report, all while listening to the obligatory Humppa.
1.548 saad 623: Topics include the new blob-free wireless drivers, pf and pf/dhcp interaction,
1.546 ian 624: CARP demotion, ipsecctl replacing ipsecadm, hardware support for disk/bioctl,
625: USB serial, new installation customization features, ports/packages, RCS, X,
626: CPU support for Sparc/64, AMD/Intel "speed step" techniques, and more.
627: <p>
628:
629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 mbalmer 630: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
631: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
632: </strong></font><br>
633: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
634: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
635: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
636: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
637: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
638: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
639: for his many customers.
640: <p>
641:
642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.544 ian 643: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/olpc-under-fire-for-proprietary-components/">
644: OLPC under fire for proprietary components</a>, Engadget, October 11, 2006
645: </strong></font><br>
646: Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy
647: from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists.
648: Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments:
649: "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children
650: need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented
651: hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to
652: convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about
653: the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you
654: also do."
655: The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside
656: seats already."
657: <p>
658:
659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
660: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/">
661: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row</a>,
662: The Jem Report, October 9, 2006
663: </strong></font><br>
664: Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with
665: Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt.
666: Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in
667: getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware
668: so that users can use hardware they have paid for.
669: Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of
670: the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection,
671: I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts."
672: And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all:
673: "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open;
674: they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd
675: code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end.
676: Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that
677: no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..."
678: <p>
679:
680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.582 grunk 681: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
1.541 ian 682: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
683: </strong></font><br>
684: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
685: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
686: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
687: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
688: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
689: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
690: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 691: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 692: <p>
693:
694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 695: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
696: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
697: </strong></font><br>
698: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
699: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
700: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
1.582 grunk 701: <br>
1.540 ian 702: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
703: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
704: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
705: overflows and vulnerabilities."
1.582 grunk 706: <br>
1.540 ian 707: And, Grimes generalizes,
708: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
709: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
710: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
711: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
712: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
713: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
714: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
715: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
716: happened."
717: Worth reading!
718: <p>
719:
1.539 ian 720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
721: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
722: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
723: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
724: </strong></font><br>
725: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
726: redistributable firmware from Intel.
727: <p>
728:
729: </ul>
730:
1.536 grunk 731: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
732: <ul>
733:
734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 735: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
736: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
737: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
738: </strong></font><br>
739: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
740: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
741: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
742: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
743: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
744: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
745: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
746: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
747: for ages over these chipsets.
748: Quotes Theo as saying:
749: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
750: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
751: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
752: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
753: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
754: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
755: <p>
756:
757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
758: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
759: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
760: </strong></font><br>
761: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
762: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
763: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
764: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
765: <p>
766:
767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 768: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
769: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
770: </strong></font><br>
771: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
772: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
773: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
774: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
775: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
776: <p>
777:
1.537 ian 778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.582 grunk 779: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
1.537 ian 780: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
781: </strong></font><br>
782: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
783: (the official release date is November 1).
784: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
785: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
786: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
787: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
788: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 789: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 790: <p>
791:
1.536 grunk 792: </ul>
793:
1.534 ian 794: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
795: <ul>
796:
797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 798: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
799: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
800: </strong></font><br>
801: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
802: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
803: as a guest operating system under
804: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
805: or "virtualization" system.
806: <p>
807:
808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 809: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
810: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
811: </strong></font><br>
812: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
813: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
814: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
815: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
816: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
817: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
818: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
819: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
820: <p>
821:
822: </ul>
823:
1.531 ian 824: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
825: <ul>
826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
827: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
828: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
829: </strong></font><br>
830: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
831: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
832: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
833: The article quotes Theo as saying
834: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
835: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
836: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
837: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
838: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
839: and describes the funding issues as well.
840: <p>
841:
842: </ul>
843:
1.525 ian 844: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
845: <ul>
846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 847: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 848: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
849: </strong></font><br>
850: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
851: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
852: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
853: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
854: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
855: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
856: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
857: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
858: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
859: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
860: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
861: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
862: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
863: <p>
864:
865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 866: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 867: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
868: </strong></font><br>
869: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
870: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
871: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
872: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
873: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
874: <p>
875:
1.526 ian 876: </ul>
1.525 ian 877:
1.514 ian 878: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
879: <ul>
1.524 ian 880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
881: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
882: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
883: </strong></font><br>
884: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
885: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
886: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
887: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
888: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
889: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
890: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
891: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
892: to make them useful.
893: <p>
1.518 ian 894:
895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 896: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 897: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
898: and
899: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 900: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 901: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 902: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 903: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 904: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
905: their plans for the week.
906: <p>
907:
908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 909: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
910: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
911: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
912: </strong></font><br>
913: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
914: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
915: <p>
916:
917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 918: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
919: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
920: </strong></font><br>
921: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
922: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
923: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
924: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 925: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 926: (introduced with 3.9).
927: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
928: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
929: <p>
930:
931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 932: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
933: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
934: </strong></font><br>
935: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
936: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
937: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
938: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
939: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
940: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
941: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
942: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
943: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
944: <p>
945:
946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
947: [GERMAN]
948: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
949: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
950: </strong></font><br>
951: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
1.580 tobias 952: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peereboom's
1.535 steven 953: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 954: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
955: is connected to OpenBSD.
956: <p>
957:
1.514 ian 958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
959: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
960: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
961: </strong></font><br>
962: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
963: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
964: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 965: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 966: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 967: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 968: running this project) is so important to Theo,
969: and even why he does mountain biking!
970: <p>
971:
972: </ul>
973:
1.503 ian 974: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
975: <ul>
976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 977: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
978: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
979: </strong></font><br>
980: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
981: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
982: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
983: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
984: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
985: <blockquote>
986: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
987: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
988: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
989: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
990: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
991: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
992: </blockquote>
993: This is just plain cool."
994: <p>
995:
996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 997: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
998: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
999: </strong></font><br>
1000: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
1001: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
1002: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 1003: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 1004: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
1005: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
1006: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
1007: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
1008: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
1009: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 1010: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 1011: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
1012: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
1013: <p>
1014:
1015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 1016: [GERMAN]
1017: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
1018: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
1019: </strong></font><br>
1020: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
1021: are and why they are bad.
1022: <p>
1023:
1024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 1025: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
1026: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
1027: </strong></font><br>
1028: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
1029: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
1030: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
1031: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
1032: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
1033: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
1034: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
1035: pages."
1036: <p>
1037:
1038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 1039: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
1040: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
1041: </strong></font><br>
1042: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
1043: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
1044: and continues:
1045: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
1046: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
1047: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
1048: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
1049: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
1050: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
1051: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
1052: and more. Final thought:
1053: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
1054: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
1055: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
1056: true for business environments."
1057: <p>
1058:
1059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 1060: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 1061: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 1062: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 1063: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
1064: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
1065: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 1066: for funding.
1.509 djm 1067: <p>
1068:
1069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 1070: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
1071: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
1072: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
1073: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
1074: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
1075: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
1076: <p>
1077:
1078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 1079: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
1080: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
1081: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
1082: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
1083: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
1084: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
1085: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
1086: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
1087: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
1088: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
1.582 grunk 1089: <br>
1.529 ian 1090: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 1091: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 1092: hostsearch.com</a> and
1093: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
1094: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 1095: <p>
1096:
1097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 1098: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
1099: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
1100: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
1101: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 1102: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 1103: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 1104: is punctuated with examples.
1105: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 1106: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
1107: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 1108: and
1.535 steven 1109: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 1110: <p>
1111:
1112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 1113: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
1114: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
1115: </strong></font><br>
1116: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
1117: further OpenSSH development.
1118: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
1119: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
1120: project's funding needs for all time.
1121: <p>
1.504 bernd 1122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1123: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
1124: April 3, 2006
1125: </strong></font><br>
1126: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
1127: this could compromise future hackathons.
1128: <p>
1.503 ian 1129:
1130: </ul>
1131:
1.487 ian 1132: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
1133: <ul>
1.495 ian 1134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 1135: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 1136: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 1137: </strong></font><br>
1138: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
1139: on topics including "Puffy",
1140: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
1141: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
1142: what's new in 3.9,
1143: and of course project expenses.
1144: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
1145: <!--
1146: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
1147: -->
1148: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
1149: <p>
1150:
1151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 1152: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
1153: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
1154: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 1155: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
1156: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 1157: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
1158: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
1159: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
1160: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
1161: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
1162: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
1163: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
1164: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
1165: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
1166: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
1167: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
1168: but Matzan does - is that
1169: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
1170: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
1171: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
1172: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
1.582 grunk 1173: <br>
1.498 ian 1174: <p>
1175:
1176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1177: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
1178: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
1179: </strong></font><br>
1180: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
1181: "blob" drivers, and more.
1182: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
1183: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
1184: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
1185: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
1186: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
1187: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
1188: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
1189: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
1190: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
1191: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
1192: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
1193: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
1194: <p>
1195:
1196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 1197: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
1198: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
1199: </strong></font><br>
1200: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
1201: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
1202: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
1203: in general temperature and environmental issues.
1204: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
1205: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
1206: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
1207: other major operating systems." ...
1208: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
1209: machines running in
1210: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
1211: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
1212: <p>
1213:
1214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1215: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
1216: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
1217: </strong></font><br>
1218: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
1219: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
1220: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
1221: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
1222: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
1223: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
1224: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
1225: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
1226: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
1227: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
1228: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
1229: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
1230: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
1231: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
1232: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
1233: <p>
1234:
1.487 ian 1235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 1236: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
1237: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
1238: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 1239: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 1240: financial situation.
1241: <p>
1242:
1243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 1244: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
1245: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
1246: </strong></font><br>
1247: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
1248: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
1249: produce our favorite operating system.
1250: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
1251: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
1252: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
1253: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
1254: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.582 grunk 1255: <br>
1.496 ian 1256: Also online at
1257: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
1258: <p>
1259:
1260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1261: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
1262: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
1263: </strong></font><br>
1264: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
1265: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
1266: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
1267: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
1268: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
1269: sustain indefinitely."
1270: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
1271: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
1272: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
1273: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
1274: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 1275: <p>
1276:
1277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 1278: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
1279: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
1280: </strong></font><br>
1281: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
1282: with a reminder that
1283: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
1284: used nowadays almost everywhere."
1285: Ends with this quote from Marco:
1286: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
1287: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
1288: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
1289: <p>
1290:
1291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 1292: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 1293: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
1294: </strong></font><br>
1295: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
1296: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
1297: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
1298: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
1299: a few of them each year.
1300: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
1301: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
1302: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
1303: to the OpenBSD project.
1304: It's time for them to do so.
1305: <p>
1306:
1307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 1308: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
1309: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
1310: </strong></font><br>
1311: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
1312: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
1313: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
1314: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
1315: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
1316: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
1317: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
1318: <p>
1319:
1320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 1321: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
1322: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 1323: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
1324: <!-- North America mirror:
1325: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 1326: -->
1.490 deraadt 1327: European mirror:
1328: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
1329: <br>
1330: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 1331: <p>
1332:
1333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 1334: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
1335: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1336: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 1337: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
1338: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
1339: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
1340: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
1341: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
1342: designed to provide reliability and security.
1343: <p>
1344:
1345: </ul>
1346:
1.485 ian 1347: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
1348: <ul>
1349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 1350: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
1351: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1352: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 1353: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 1354: installations in about four minutes flat".
1355: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
1356: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 1357: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 1358: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
1359: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
1360: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
1361: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
1362: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
1363: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
1364: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
1365: the steps in the article.
1366: <p>
1367:
1368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 1369: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
1370: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
1371: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
1372: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
1373: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
1374: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
1375: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
1376: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
1377: happening in real life.
1378: <p>
1379:
1380: </ul>
1381:
1.492 ian 1382: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
1383: <ul>
1384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1385: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
1386: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1387: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
1388: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
1389: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
1390: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 1391: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 1392: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
1393: </ul>
1394:
1.483 ian 1395: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
1396: <ul>
1.555 reyk 1397:
1.483 ian 1398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.555 reyk 1399: [GERMAN]
1400: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/articles/openbsd/064-069_linux-bsd-fw.pdf">
1401: Wehrhaft abtauchen - HA-fähige Firewall mit OpenBSD/PF</a>, Linux-Magazin, December 2005
1402: </strong></font><br>
1403: High available firewall setups are considered as the high arts of network protection.
1404: Due to clustering the network stays online even if one firewall fails. This article
1405: from Stephan A. Rickauer (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University Zurich) shows
1406: how well OpenBSD/PF performs in comparison to the well-known duo Linux/Netfilter.
1407: <p>
1408:
1409: </p></li><li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 1410: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
1411: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1412: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
1413: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
1414: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
1415: <p>
1416:
1417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1418: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 1419: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
1420: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
1421: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
1422: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
1423: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
1424: to sites with more information on most topics.
1425: <p>
1426:
1427: </ul>
1428:
1429:
1.479 grunk 1430: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
1431: <ul>
1432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1433: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 1434: Goes to Venice</a>,
1435: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1436: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 1437: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
1.582 grunk 1438: <br>
1.482 ian 1439: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
1440: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
1441: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 1442: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 1443: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
1444: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
1445: Contains a link to
1446: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
1447: pval's summary slides</a>.
1448: <p>
1449:
1450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 1451: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
1452: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
1453: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
1454: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
1455: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
1456: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
1457: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
1458: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 1459: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 1460: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
1461: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
1462: the packages and ports system"</i>.
1463: <p>
1464:
1465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1466: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
1467: Return of The BSDs</a>,
1468: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1469: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
1470: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
1471: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
1472: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
1473: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
1474: quotes from Bob Beck.
1475: <p>
1476:
1477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 1478: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
1479: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
1480: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 1481: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
1482: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 1483: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
1484: and Linux.<br>
1485: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
1486: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
1487: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
1488: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
1489: of the release
1490: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
1491: <p>
1492: </ul>
1493:
1.476 ian 1494: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
1495: <ul>
1496:
1497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1498: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
1499: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
1500: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
1501: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
1502: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
1503: and too unreliable.
1504: This quote will rattle some cages:
1505: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
1506: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
1507: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
1508: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
1509: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
1510: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
1511: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
1512: costs without any commercial lock-in."
1513: <p>
1514:
1.477 saad 1515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1516: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
1517: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
1518: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1519: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1520: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
1521: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
1522: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
1523: discussion about future plans.
1524: <p>
1525:
1.478 grunk 1526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1527: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
1528: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
1529: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
1530: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
1531: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
1532: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
1533: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
1534: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
1535: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
1536: <p>
1537:
1.476 ian 1538: </ul>
1539:
1.470 saad 1540: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
1541: <ul>
1542:
1543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 1544: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
1545: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
1546: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1547: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
1548: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
1549: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
1550: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
1551: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
1552: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
1553: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
1554: <p>
1555:
1556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 1557: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
1558: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
1559: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
1560: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
1561: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
1562: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
1563: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
1564: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
1565: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
1566: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
1567: <p>
1568:
1569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1570: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
1571: Big debate over small packets</a>,
1572: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
1573: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
1574: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
1575: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
1576: draft.
1577: <p>
1578:
1579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 1580: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
1581: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
1582: ordinateur ?"</a>,
1583: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
1584: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
1585: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
1586: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
1587: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
1588: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
1589: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
1590: <p>
1591:
1592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 1593: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
1594: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
1595: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
1596: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
1597: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
1598: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
1599: performance data with pfstat.
1600: <p>
1601:
1602: </ul>
1603:
1.461 grunk 1604: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
1605: <ul>
1606:
1607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 1608: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
1609: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 1610: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 1611: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
1612: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
1613: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 1614: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 1615: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 1616: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
1617: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
1618: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 1619: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
1620: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 1621: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 1622: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
1623: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 1624: <p>
1625:
1626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 1627: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
1628: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1629: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 1630: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
1631: poor security:
1.467 grunk 1632: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 1633: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 1634: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 1635: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
1636: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
1637: <p>
1638:
1639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 1640: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
1641: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1642: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 1643: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
1644: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 1645: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
1646: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
1647: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
1648: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
1649: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
1650: commercial vendors.
1651: <p>
1652:
1653: </ul>
1654:
1.454 ian 1655: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
1656: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1657:
1658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1659: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1660: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1661: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1662: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1663: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1664: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1665: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1666: <br>
1667: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1668: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1669: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1670: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1671: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1672: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1673: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1674: <p>
1675:
1.454 ian 1676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1677: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1678: Free Bird</a>,
1679: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1680: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1681: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1682: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1683: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1684: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1685: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1686: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1687: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1688: room will only be available in the print edition.
1689: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1690:
1.458 niallo 1691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1692: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1693: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1694: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1695: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1696: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1697: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1698: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1699: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1700: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1701:
1.456 niallo 1702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1703: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1704: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1705: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1706: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1707: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1708: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1709: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1710: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1711: interview.</a>
1712: <p>
1713:
1714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1715: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1716: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1717: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1718: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1719: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1720: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1721: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1722: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1723: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1724: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1725: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1726: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1727: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1728: "I have never used it."
1729: <p>
1730:
1731: </ul>
1732:
1.441 deraadt 1733: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1734: <ul>
1735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1736: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1737: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1738: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1739: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1740: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1741: future enhancements.
1742: <p>
1743:
1744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1745: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1746: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1747: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1748: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1749: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1750: North America mirror:
1751: <ul>
1.452 marco 1752: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1753: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1754: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1755: </ul>
1756: European mirror:
1757: <ul>
1.452 marco 1758: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1759: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1760: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1761: </ul>
1762: <p>
1763:
1764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1765: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1766: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1767: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1768: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1769: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1770: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1771: <p>
1772:
1773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1774: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1775: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1776: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1777: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1778: first-hand account.
1779: <p>
1780:
1781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1782: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1783: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1784: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1785: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1786: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1787: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1788: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1789: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1790: <p>
1791:
1792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1793: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1794: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1795: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1796: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1797: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1798: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1799: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1800: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1801: <p>
1802:
1803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1804: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1805: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1806: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1807: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1808: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1809: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1810: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1811: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1812: <p>
1813:
1814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1815: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1816: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1817: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1818: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1819: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1820: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1821: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1822: <p>
1823:
1824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1825: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1826: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1827: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1828: </strong></font><br>
1829: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1830: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1831: with OpenBSD.
1832: </ul>
1833:
1.436 henning 1834: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1835: <ul>
1836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1837: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1838: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1839: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1840: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1841: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1842: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1843: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1844: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1845: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1846: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1847: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1848: <p>
1849: This article can also be found online as
1850: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1851: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1852: <p>
1853:
1854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1855: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1856: </strong></font><br>
1857: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1858: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
1859: <p>
1860:
1861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1862: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1863: </strong></font><br>
1864: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1865: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1866: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1867: the issues we had with IETF.
1868: </ul>
1869:
1.431 ian 1870: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1871: <ul>
1872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1873: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1874: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1875: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1876: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1877: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1878: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1879: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1880: <p>
1881:
1882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1883: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1884: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1885: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1886: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1887: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1888: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1889: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1890: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1891: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1892: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1893: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1894: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1895: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1896: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1897: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1898:
1899: </ul>
1900:
1.427 matthieu 1901: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1902: <ul>
1903:
1904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1905: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1906: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1907: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1908: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1909: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1910: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1911: firmware.
1.434 ian 1912: Similar articles can be found online at:
1913: <ul>
1914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1915: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1916: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1917: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1919: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1920: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1921: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1923: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1924: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1925: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1927: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1928: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1929: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1930: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1931: </ul>
1932:
1.426 ian 1933: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1934: <ul>
1935:
1936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1937: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1938: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1939: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1940: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1941: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1942: mechanism: what it is and why and
1943: how to use it, with examples.
1944: Another excerpt from the book
1.588 deraadt 1945: "Secure Architectures with OpenBSD" by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1.426 ian 1946: <p>
1947:
1948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1949: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1950: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1951: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1952: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1953: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1954: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1955: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1956: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1957: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1958: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1959: This article is a sample chapter from
1.588 deraadt 1960: "Secure Architectures with OpenBSD" by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1.426 ian 1961: <p>
1.443 ian 1962:
1963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1964: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1965: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1966: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1967: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1968: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1969: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1970: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1971: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1972: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1973: ends with a sidebar on security.
1974: <p>
1.426 ian 1975: </ul>
1976:
1.424 ian 1977: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1978: <ul>
1979:
1980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1981: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1982: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1983: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1984: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1985: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1986: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1987: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1988: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1989: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1990: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1991: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1992: <p>
1993: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1994: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1995: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1996: <p>
1997:
1998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1999: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
2000: Closed Source Hardware</a>
2001: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
2002: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
2003: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
2004: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
2005: operating systems.
2006: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
2007: OpenBSD on his firewall.
2008: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
2009: systems, he writes:
2010: <blockquote>
2011: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
2012: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
2013: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
2014: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
2015: to the operating system...
1.582 grunk 2016: <br>
1.424 ian 2017: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
2018: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
2019: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
2020: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
2021: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
2022: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
2023: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
2024: in a closed source operating system).
2025: <br/>
2026: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
2027: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
2028: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
2029: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
2030: </blockquote>
2031: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
2032: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
2033: their hardware and software operates.
2034: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
2035: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 2036: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 2037: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
2038: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
2039: <p>
2040: </ul>
2041:
1.417 pvalchev 2042: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
2043: <ul>
1.421 ian 2044:
1.417 pvalchev 2045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 2046: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
2047: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
2048: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
2049: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
2050: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
2051: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
2052: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
2053: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
2054: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
2055: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
2056: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 2057: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 2058: <p>
2059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 2060: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
2061: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
2062: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
2063: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
2064: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
2065: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
2066: it claims to do".
2067: <p>
2068:
2069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 2070: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 2071: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
2072: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
2073: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
2074: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 2075: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 2076: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
2077: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
2078: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
2079: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
2080: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
2081: (yes, this is a hint).
2082: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
2083: picked up on the
2084: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
2085: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 2086: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 2087: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
2088: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
2089: <p>
2090:
2091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 2092: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
2093: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
2094: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
2095: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
2096: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
2097: questions about the significance and rationale behind
2098: the current efforts.
2099: <p>
2100: </ul>
2101:
1.407 henning 2102: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
2103: <ul>
2104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 2105: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
2106: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
2107: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
2108: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
2109: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
2110: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
2111: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
2112: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
2113: <p>
2114:
2115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 2116: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
2117: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
2118: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2119: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
2120: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
2121: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
2122: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
2123: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
2124: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 2125: <p>
1.415 ian 2126:
2127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2128: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 2129: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
2130: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
2131: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
2132: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
2133: overflow attacks... because
2134: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
2135: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
2136: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
2137: and propolice.
2138: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
2139: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
2140: and that's when the science falls apart."
2141: <p>
2142:
2143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 2144: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
2145: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
2146: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
2147: Starts with the question:
2148: <blockquote>
2149: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
2150: <br/>
2151: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
2152: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
2153: <br/>
2154: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
2155: Should we believe them?"
2156: </blockquote>
2157: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
2158: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
2159: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
2160: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
2161: for your mail, web and other online activities.
2162: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
2163: <p>
2164:
2165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 2166: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
2167: Simple Simon</a>,
2168: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
2169: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
2170: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
2171: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
2172: routing/firewall, and more.
2173: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
2174: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
2175: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
2176: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
2177: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
2178: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
2179: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
2180: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
2181: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
2182: </blockquote>
2183: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
2184: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
2185: <p>
2186:
2187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 2188: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
2189: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 2190: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 2191: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 2192: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
2193: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
2194: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 2195: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 2196: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
2197: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
2198: in spite of it
2199: (registration required, but worth it).
2200: <p>
2201:
2202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2203: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
2204: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
2205: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
2206: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
2207: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
2208: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1.588 deraadt 2209: "The Power of Many",
1.408 nick 2210: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
2211: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
2212: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
2213: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
2214: <p>
2215:
2216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 2217: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
2218: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
2219: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
2220: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
2221: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
2222: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
2223: <blockquote>
2224: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
2225: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
2226: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
2227: a lot of analysis.
2228: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
2229: </blockquote>
2230: <p>
2231: </ul>
2232:
1.400 marco 2233: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
2234: <ul>
2235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 2236: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
2237: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
2238: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
2239: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
2240: UNIX-like systems.
2241: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
2242: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
2243: <p>
2244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 2245: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
2246: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 2247: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2248: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
2249: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
2250: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
2251: At one point, the article states:
2252: <blockquote>
2253: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
2254: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
2255: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
2256: </blockquote>
2257: And then quotes Theo as saying:
2258: <blockquote>
2259: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
2260: fewer are reading or auditing code."
2261: </blockquote>
2262: <p>
2263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2264: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
2265: marks its fifth birthday</a>
2266: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2267: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
2268: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
2269: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
2270: required).
2271: <p>
2272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 2273: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
2274: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
2275: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
2276: </strong></font><br>
2277: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
2278: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
2279: <p>
2280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 2281: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
2282: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 2283: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 2284: </strong></font><br>
2285: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
2286: <p>
2287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 2288: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
2289: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 2290: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 2291: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 2292: 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 2293: <p>
2294: </ul>
2295:
1.396 henning 2296: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
2297: <ul>
2298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 2299: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
2300: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
2301: Unix Review, July, 2004
2302: </strong></font><br>
2303: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
2304: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 2305: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 2306: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
2307: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
2308: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
2309: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
2310: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
2311: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
2312: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
2313: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
2314: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
2315: and even spelling/wording errors.
2316: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
2317: <p>
2318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2319: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 2320: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
2321: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
2322: </strong></font><br>
2323: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
2324: <p>
2325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2326: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 2327: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
2328: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
2329: </strong></font><br>
2330: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
2331: <p>
2332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 2333: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
2334: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
2335: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
2336: </strong></font><br>
2337: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
2338: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
2339: <p>
2340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.595 ! schwarze 2341: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/press/archiv/pis/20040630.html">
! 2342: genua moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
! 2343: German security company genua moves its firewall product line
! 2344: "genugate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1.396 henning 2345: <p>
2346: </ul>
2347:
1.405 jolan 2348: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
2349: <ul>
1.545 tom 2350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2351: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 2352: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 2353: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
2354: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
2355: details on how funds are dispersed.
2356: <p>
2357: </ul>
2358:
1.393 david 2359: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
2360: <ul>
2361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 2362: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
2363: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
2364: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
2365: </strong></font><br>
2366: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
2367: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
2368: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
2369: on inserting large number of SQL records.
2370: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
2371: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
2372: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
2373: <p>
2374:
2375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2376: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
2377: Secure by Default</a>,
2378: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
2379: </strong></font><br>
2380: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
2381: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
2382: <p>
2383:
2384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2385: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
2386: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
2387: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
2388: </strong></font><br>
2389: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
2390: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
2391: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
2392: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
2393: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
2394: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
2395: <p>
2396:
2397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2398: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
2399: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
2400: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
2401: </strong></font><br>
2402: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
2403: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
2404: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
2405: <p>
2406:
2407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2408: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
2409: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
2410: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
2411: </strong></font><br>
2412: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
2413: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
2414: <p>
2415: </ul>
2416:
1.388 mcbride 2417: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
2418: <ul>
1.394 jolan 2419:
2420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2421: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
2422: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
2423: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
2424: </strong></font><br>
2425: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
2426: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
2427: available for sparc64.
2428: <p>
2429:
1.390 beck 2430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2431: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
2432: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
2433: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
2434: </strong></font><br>
2435: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
2436: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
2437: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
2438: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
2439: <p>
2440:
2441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 2442: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
2443: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 2444: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 2445: </strong></font><br>
2446: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
2447: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
2448: it does: CARP provides sharing
2449: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
2450: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
2451: detail to get you started using it.
2452: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
2453: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
2454: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
2455: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
2456: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
2457: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
2458: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 2459: <p>
1.391 ian 2460:
2461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 2462: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 2463: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
2464: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 2465: </strong></font><br>
2466: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 2467: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 2468: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 2469: <p>
1.388 mcbride 2470:
2471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2472: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
2473: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 2474: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 2475: </strong></font><br>
2476: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
2477: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
2478: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
2479: unencumbered by patents.
2480: <p>
2481: </ul>
2482:
1.378 henning 2483: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
2484: <ul>
1.384 jose 2485:
2486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 2487: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
2488: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
2489: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
2490: </strong></font><br>
2491: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
2492: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
2493: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
2494: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
2495: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
2496: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
2497: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
2498: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
2499: in the page tables."
2500: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
2501: <p>
2502:
2503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2504: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
2505: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
2506: </strong></font><br>
2507: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
2508: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
2509: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
2510: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 2511: <p>
1.384 jose 2512:
1.378 henning 2513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2514: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
2515: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 2516: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
2517: </strong></font><br>
2518: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
2519: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
2520: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
2521: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
2522: (quote:
2523: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
2524: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 2525: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 2526: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
2527: the other developers for their work on the system.
2528: <p>
2529:
2530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2531: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
2532: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
2533: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 2534: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 2535: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
2536: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
2537: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
2538: too.
2539: <p>
2540:
2541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 2542: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
2543: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 2544: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 2545: OpenBSD source code using
2546: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
2547: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
2548: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
2549: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
2550: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
2551: <p>
2552: </ul>
2553:
1.374 jose 2554: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
2555: <ul>
2556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 2557: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 2558: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
2559: </strong></font><br>
2560: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
2561: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
2562: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
2563: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
2564: it."
2565: <p>
2566:
2567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 2568: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
2569: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
2570: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
2571: </strong></font><br/>
2572: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
2573: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
2574: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
2575: <p>
2576: </ul>
2577:
1.369 ian 2578: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
2579: <ul>
2580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2581: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
2582: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
2583: </strong></font><br/>
2584: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
2585: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
2586: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
2587: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
2588: <p>
2589:
2590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2591: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
2592: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
2593: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
2594: </strong></font><br/>
2595: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
2596: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
2597: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
2598: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
2599: form factor.
2600: <p>
2601:
2602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2603: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
2604: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
2605: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
2606: Features</a>,
2607: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
2608: </strong></font><br/>
2609: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
2610: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
2611: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
2612: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
2613: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
2614: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
2615: <p>
2616: This article can also be found online at:
2617: <ul>
2618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2619: <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 2620: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
2621: </strong></font>
2622: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2623: </ul>
2624: <p>
1.392 david 2625:
1.371 jose 2626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2627: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
2628: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 2629: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
2630: </strong></font><br/>
2631: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
2632: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
2633: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 2634: <p>
1.371 jose 2635:
2636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 2637: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 2638: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 2639: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 2640: </strong></font><br/>
2641: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
2642: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
2643: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
2644: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
2645: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
2646: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
2647: and its history with OpenBSD.
2648: </ul>
2649:
1.567 kurt 2650: <h2>September, 2003</h2>
2651: <ul>
2652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2653: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/rosenthal/rosenthal_html/">
2654: A Digital Preservation Network Appliance Based on OpenBSD</a>, BSDcon, September, 2003.
2655: </strong></font><br>
2656: David S. H. Rosenthal's paper on the design, implementation and deployment of the
2657: <a href="http://www.lockss.org">LOCKSS</a> network appliance based on OpenBSD.
2658: </ul>
2659:
1.368 henning 2660: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
2661: <ul>
2662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2663: [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 2664: </strong></font><br>
2665: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2666: </ul>
2667:
1.364 jose 2668: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2669: <ul>
2670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2671: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2672: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2673: UNIX Review,
2674: July, 2003.
2675: </strong></font><br>
2676: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2677: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2678: who want more information.
2679: <p>
2680:
2681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2682: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2683: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2684: Government Computer News,
2685: July 22, 2003.
2686: </strong></font><br>
2687: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2688: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2689: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2690: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2691: <p>
2692:
2693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2694: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2695: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2696: SANS Institute,
2697: July 22, 2003.
2698: </strong></font><br>
2699: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2700: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2701: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2702: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2703: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2704: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2705: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2706: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2707: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2708: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2709: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2710: <p>
2711:
2712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2713: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2714: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2715: OnLamp.com,
2716: July 17, 2003.
2717: </strong></font><br>
2718: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2719: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2720: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2721: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2722: have been working on.
2723:
2724: </ul>
2725:
1.356 jose 2726: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2727: <ul>
2728:
2729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2730: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2731: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2732: UNIX Review,
2733: June, 2003.
2734: </strong></font><br>
2735: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2736: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2737: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2738: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2739: <p>
2740:
2741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2742: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2743: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2744: eWeek,
2745: June 23, 2003.
2746: </strong></font><br>
2747: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2748: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2749: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2750: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2751: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2752: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2753: <p>
2754:
2755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2756: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2757: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2758: Software Development Online,
2759: June, 2003.
2760: </strong></font><br>
2761: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2762: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2763: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2764: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2765: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2766: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2767: current activities.
2768: <p>
2769:
2770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2771: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2772: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2773: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2774: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2775: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2776: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2777: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2778: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2779: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2780: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2781: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2782: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2783: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2784: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2785: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2786: decisions.
2787: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2788: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2789: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2790: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2791: <p>
2792:
2793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2794: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2795: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2796: Page 58, eWeek,
2797: June 2, 2003.
2798: </strong></font><br>
2799: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2800: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2801: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2802: been addressed in -current.
2803: <p>
2804:
1.356 jose 2805: </ul>
2806:
2807: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2808: <ul>
2809:
1.355 jose 2810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2811: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2812: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2813: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2814: </strong></font><br>
2815: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2816: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2817: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2818: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2819: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2820: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2821: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2822: <p>
2823:
2824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2825: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2826: Beyond Linux</a>,
2827: InfoWorld,
2828: May 23, 2003.
2829: </strong></font><br>
2830: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2831: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2832: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2833: compared to the GPL.
2834: <p>
2835:
2836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2837: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2838: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2839: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2840: May 17, 2003.
2841: </strong></font><br>
2842: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2843: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2844: the business section and half of another page inside
2845: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2846: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2847: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2848: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2849: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2850: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2851: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2852: <br>
2853: This article can also be found online at:
2854: <ul>
2855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2856: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2857: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2858: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2859: May 17, 2003
2860: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2861: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2863: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2864: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2865: Montreal Gazette,
2866: May 21, 2003
2867: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2868: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2869: <p>
1.346 ian 2870:
2871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2872: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2873: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2874: May 7, 2003.
2875: </strong></font><br>
2876: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2877: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2878: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2879: <p>
2880:
2881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2882: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2883: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2884: OsOpinion,
2885: May 6, 2003.
2886: </strong></font><br>
2887: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2888: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2889: <br>
2890: This article can also be found online at:
2891: <ul>
2892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2893: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2894: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2895: NewsFactor Network.
2896: </strong></font>
2897: </ul>
2898: <p>
2899:
2900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2901: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2902: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2903: ITBusiness,
2904: May 2, 2003.
2905: </strong></font><br>
2906: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2907: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2908: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2909: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2910: <p>
2911:
2912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2913: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2914: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2915: InfoWorld,
2916: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2917: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2918: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2919: <br>
2920: This article can also be found online at:
2921: <ul>
2922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2923: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2924: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2925: IDG Singapore.
2926: </strong></font>
2927: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2928: <p>
2929:
1.339 jose 2930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2931: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2932: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2933: ZDNet,
2934: May 1, 2003.
2935: </strong></font><br>
2936: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2937: someone using parts from previous articles.
2938: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2939: This article can also be found online at:
2940: <ul>
2941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2942: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2943: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2944: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2945: </strong></font>
2946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2947: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2948: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2949: CNET News.com.
2950: </strong></font>
2951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2952: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2953: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2954: ZDNet UK.
2955: </strong></font>
2956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2957: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2958: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2959: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2960: </strong></font>
2961: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2962: <p>
1.339 jose 2963:
1.341 deraadt 2964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 2965: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2966: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2967: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2968: May 1, 2003.
2969: </strong></font><br>
2970: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2971: that have been added
2972: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2973: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2974: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2975: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2976: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2977: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2978: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2979: <p>
2980:
2981: </ul>
2982:
1.253 ian 2983: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2984: <ul>
1.255 ian 2985:
1.260 ian 2986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2987: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2988: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2989: TechRepublic,
2990: April 28, 2003.
2991: </strong></font><br>
2992: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2993: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2994: work.<br>
2995: Can also be found online at:
2996: <ul>
2997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2998: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2999: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
3000: ZDNet UK.
3001: </strong></font>
3002: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 3003: <p>
3004:
3005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 3006: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
3007: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
3008: IDG,
3009: April 24, 2003.
3010: </strong></font><br>
3011: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
3012: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
3013: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
3014: Can also be found online at:
3015: <ul>
3016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3017: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
3018: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 3019: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 3020: </strong></font>
3021: </ul>
3022: <p>
3023:
3024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3025: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 3026: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 3027: Slate,
3028: April 24, 2003.
3029: </strong></font><br>
3030: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
3031: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
3032: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
3033: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
3034: <p>
3035:
3036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 3037: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
3038: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
3039: April 24, 2003.
3040: </strong></font><br>
3041: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
3042: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
3043: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
3044: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
3045: <p>
3046:
3047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 3048: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
3049: April 24, 2003.
3050: </strong></font><br>
3051: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
3052: the free software community".
3053: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
3054: other articles.
3055: <p>
3056:
3057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 3058: <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 3059: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
3060: </strong></font><br>
3061: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
3062: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
3063: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
3064: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
3065: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
3066: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
3067: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 3068: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 3069: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
3070: <br/>
3071: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
3072: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
3073: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
3074: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 3075: <br>
3076: Can also be found online at:
3077: <ul>
3078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3079: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
3080: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
3081: Common Dreams NewsCenter
3082: </strong></font>
3083: </ul>
1.324 ian 3084: <p>
3085:
3086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3087: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
3088: Wired, April 24, 2003.
3089: </strong></font><br>
3090: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
3091: article above.
3092: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
3093: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
3094: wasting them."
1.332 ian 3095: <br>
3096: Can also be found online at:
3097: <ul>
3098: <li>
3099: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
3100: </strong></font>
3101: </ul>
1.324 ian 3102: <p>
3103:
3104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 3105: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
3106: </strong></font><br>
3107: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
3108: <p>
3109:
3110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 3111: <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.
3112: </strong></font><br>
3113: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
3114: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
3115: <p>
3116:
3117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 3118: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
3119: April 23, 2003.
3120: </strong></font><br>
3121: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
3122: <p>
3123:
3124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 3125: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 3126: April 22, 2003.
3127: </strong></font><br>
3128: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
3129: <p>
3130:
3131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 3132: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
3133: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
3134: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 3135: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 3136: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
3137: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
3138: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
3139: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
3140: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
3141: Can also be found online at:
3142: <ul>
3143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3144: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 3145: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
3146: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 3147: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 3148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3149: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 3150: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
3151: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 3152: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 3153: </ul>
3154: <p>
3155:
3156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 3157: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
3158: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 3159: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3160: </strong></font><br>
3161: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 3162: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
3163: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
3164: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
3165: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
3166: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
3167: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 3168: <p>
3169:
3170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 3171: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
3172: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 3173: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
3174: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 3175: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
3176: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
3177: at UPenn and DARPA.
3178: <p>
3179:
3180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 3181: [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,
3182: France
1.315 deraadt 3183: April 18, 2003.
3184: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 3185: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 3186: <p>
3187:
3188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 3189: [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 3190: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3191: </strong></font><br>
3192: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
3193: <p>
3194:
3195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 3196: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
3197: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
3198: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3199: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 3200: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
3201: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
3202: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
3203: <p>
3204:
3205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 3206: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
3207: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3208: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 3209: </strong></font><br>
3210: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3211: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
3212: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 3213: American century.
1.267 deraadt 3214: <p>
3215:
3216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 3217: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
3218: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3219: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 3220: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 3221: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
3222: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
3223: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
3224: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
3225: Can also be found online at:
3226: <ul>
3227: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
3228: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 3229: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 3230: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 3231: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 3232: <p>
3233:
3234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 3235: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 3236: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 3237: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 3238: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 3239: </strong></font><br>
3240: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 3241: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
3242: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
3243: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
3244: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 3245:
3246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3247: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
3248: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
3249: New York Times.
3250: </strong></font>(free registration required)
3251:
1.273 deraadt 3252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3253: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 3254: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 3255: ABC News.
3256: </strong></font>
3257:
3258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3259: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 3260: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 3261: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 3262: </strong></font>
3263:
3264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3265: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 3266: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 3267: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 3268: </strong></font>
3269:
3270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 3271: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
3272: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3273: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 3274: </strong></font>
3275:
3276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3277: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 3278: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 3279: Times Daily, AL.
3280: </strong></font>
3281:
3282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3283: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
3284: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
3285: Boston.com, MA.
3286: </strong></font>
3287:
3288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3289: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 3290: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 3291: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
3292: </strong></font>
3293:
3294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 3295: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
3296: [Article was pulled]</a>
3297: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 3298: </strong></font>
3299:
3300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3301: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
3302: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
3303: Infoshop News.
3304: </strong></font>
3305:
3306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3307: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
3308: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3309: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
3310: </strong></font>
3311:
3312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 3313: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
3314: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
3315: Raleigh News, NC.
3316: </strong></font>
3317:
3318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 3319: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 3320: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
3321: Napa News, CA.
3322: </strong></font>
3323:
3324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3325: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 3326: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3327: NEPA News, PA.
3328: </strong></font>
3329:
3330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3331: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
3332: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
3333: Wired News.
3334: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 3335: <br>
3336: <li>
1.333 deraadt 3337: <font color="#009000"><strong>
3338: [JAPANESE]
3339: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
3340: Wired News Japan</a>
3341: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 3342:
1.271 deraadt 3343: </ul>
3344: <p>
1.272 deraadt 3345: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
3346: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 3347: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
3348: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
3349: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
3350: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
3351: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
3352: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 3353: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 3354: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
3355: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
3356: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 3357: <p>
3358: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 3359:
3360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3361: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 3362: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
3363: Indianapolis Star, IN.
3364: </strong></font>
3365:
3366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 3367: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
3368: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3369: Miami Herald, FL.
3370: </strong></font>
3371:
3372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 3373: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3374: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
3375: </strong></font>
3376:
3377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3378: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 3379: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3380: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 3381: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 3382:
3383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3384: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
3385: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
3386: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
3387: ABC News.
3388: </strong></font>
3389:
1.276 deraadt 3390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3391: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 3392: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3393: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 3394: </strong></font>
3395:
1.286 dhartmei 3396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3397: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 3398: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3399: Wilmington Star, NC.
3400: </strong></font>
3401:
1.300 jose 3402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3403: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
3404: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
3405: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
3406: </strong></font>
3407:
1.309 jose 3408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3409: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
3410: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
3411: Globe Technology.
3412: </strong></font>
3413:
1.263 deraadt 3414: </ul>
1.262 beck 3415: <p>
3416:
3417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 3418: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
3419: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3420: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 3421: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 3422: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 3423: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
3424: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
3425: <p>
3426:
3427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 3428: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
3429: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
3430: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3431: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 3432: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
3433: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
3434: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
3435: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
3436: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
3437: and simply restates other press reports.
3438: <p>
3439:
3440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 3441: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
3442: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
3443: OS News, April 18, 2003.
3444: </strong></font><br>
3445: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
3446: <p>
3447:
3448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 3449: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
3450: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3451: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 3452: </strong></font><br>
3453: Another report on the DARPA funding.
3454: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
3455: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
3456: <p>
3457:
3458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 3459: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
3460: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
3461: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
3462: April 17, 2003.
3463: </strong></font><br>
3464: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
3465: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
3466: Tech Anthems</a>
3467: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
3468: 4 so far.
3469: <p>
3470:
3471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 3472: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
3473: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3474: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3475: </strong></font><br>
3476: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
3477: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
3478: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
3479: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
3480: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
3481: Goes on to say:
3482: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
3483: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
3484: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
3485: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 3486: This article is also found online at:
3487: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 3488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3489: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
3490: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
3491: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3492: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3494: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
3495: ZDnet</a>,
3496: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3497: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3499: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
3500: ZDnet Australia</a>,
3501: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 3502: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 3503: </ul>
1.260 ian 3504: <p>
1.279 deraadt 3505:
1.260 ian 3506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3507: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 3508: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 3509: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3510: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 3511: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 3512: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
3513: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
3514: without notice or justification.
3515: <p>
3516:
3517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 3518: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 3519: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 3520: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3521: </strong></font><br>
3522: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
3523: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 3524: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 3525: effective today, without any warning..."
3526: <p>
1.257 ian 3527:
3528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 3529: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
3530: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3531: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 3532: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 3533: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
3534: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
3535: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
3536: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
3537: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 3538: <p>
3539:
3540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 3541: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
3542: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3543: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 3544: </strong></font><br>
3545: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
3546: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
3547: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
3548: quoting two of them:
3549: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
3550: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
3551: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
3552: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
3553: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
3554: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
3555: <p>
3556:
1.255 ian 3557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3558: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
3559: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 3560: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3561: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 3562: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 3563: <p>
3564:
3565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 3566: [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 3567: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3568: </strong></font><br>
3569: New security concepts in OpenBSD
3570: <p>
3571:
3572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 3573: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
3574: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3575: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 3576: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 3577: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 3578: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
3579: security experts for more than three decades."
3580: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
3581: <p>
1.261 ian 3582:
1.254 drahn 3583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 3584: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 3585: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3586: </strong></font><br>
3587: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3588: <p>
3589:
3590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 3591: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
3592: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
3593: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
3594: </strong></font><br>
3595: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
3596: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
3597: discussion OpenBSD's path.
3598: <p>
3599:
3600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 3601: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
3602: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3603: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 3604: </strong></font><br>
3605: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
3606: from US DARPA.
3607: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
3608: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
3609: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
3610: the BSD license.
3611: <p>
3612: </ul>
3613:
1.251 ian 3614: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3615: <ul>
3616:
3617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3618: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
3619: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
3620: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
3621: </strong></font><br>
3622:
3623: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3624: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3625: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3626: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3627: <p>
3628:
3629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 3630: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
3631: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 3632: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 3633: </strong></font><br>
3634: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
3635: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
3636: Mentions
3637: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
3638: and
3639: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
3640: programs.
3641: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 3642: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 3643: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
3644: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
3645: <p>
1.325 ian 3646: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
3647: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 3648:
3649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3650: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
3651: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
3652: </strong></font><br>
3653: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
3654: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
3655: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
3656: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
3657: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
3658: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
3659: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
3660: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
3661: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
3662: put into service."
3663: <p>
3664: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3665: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3666: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3667: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3668: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3669: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3670: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3671: computers with security features."
3672: <p>
1.329 ian 3673:
3674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3675: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3676: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3677: Slate,
3678: March 3, 2003.
3679: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3680: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3681: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3682: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3683: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3684: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3685: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3686: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3687: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3688: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3689: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3690: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3691: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3692: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3693: of more secure open-source solutions like
3694: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3695: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3696: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3697: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3698: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3699: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3700: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3701: the Beltway."
3702: <p>
1.251 ian 3703: </ul>
3704:
1.249 jufi 3705: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3706: <ul>
3707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3708: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3709: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3710: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3711: </strong></font><br>
3712: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3713: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3714: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3715: <p>
1.334 ian 3716:
3717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3718: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3719: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3720: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3721: </strong></font><br>
3722: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3723: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3724: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3725: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3726: "... the hypothetical question ...
3727: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3728: <br>
3729: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3730: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3731: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3732: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3733: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3734: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3735: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3736: support network security.
3737: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3738: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3739: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3740: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3741: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3742: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3743: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3744: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3745: <br>
3746: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3747: <p>
3748:
1.249 jufi 3749: </ul>
3750:
1.246 jufi 3751: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3752: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3753:
1.247 jufi 3754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3755: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3756: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3757: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3758: </strong></font><br>
3759: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3760: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3761: <p>
3762:
1.247 jufi 3763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3764: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3765: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3766: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3767: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3768: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3769: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3770: <p>
3771:
3772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3773: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3774: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3775: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3776: </strong></font><br>
3777: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3778: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3779: <p>
1.247 jufi 3780: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3781:
1.244 jufi 3782: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3783: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3784:
1.247 jufi 3785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3786: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3787: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3788: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3789: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3790: </strong></font><br>
3791: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3792: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3793: md5 digests.
3794: <p>
3795:
1.247 jufi 3796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3797: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3798: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3799: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3800: </strong></font><br>
3801: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3802: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3803: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3804: right the first time."
3805: <p>
1.247 jufi 3806: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3807:
3808:
3809: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3810: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3811:
1.247 jufi 3812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3813: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3814: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3815: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3816: </strong></font><br>
3817: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3818: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3819: part 6</a>.
3820: <p>
3821:
1.247 jufi 3822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3823: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3824: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3825: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3826: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3827: </strong></font><br>
3828: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3829: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3830: <p>
1.301 jose 3831:
3832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3833: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3834: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3835: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3836: </strong></font><br>
3837:
3838: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3839: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3840: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3841: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3842: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3843: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3844: <i>Here's the
3845: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3846: <p>
1.247 jufi 3847: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3848:
3849: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3850: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3851:
1.247 jufi 3852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3853: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3854: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3855: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3856: </strong></font><br>
3857: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3858: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3859: <p>
3860:
1.247 jufi 3861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3862: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3863: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3864: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3865: </strong></font><br>
3866: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3867: this time using pf.
3868: <p>
1.247 jufi 3869: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3870:
3871: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3872: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3873:
1.247 jufi 3874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3875: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3876: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3877: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3878: </strong></font><br>
3879: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3880: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3881: their rotation.
3882: <p>
3883:
1.247 jufi 3884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3885: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3886: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3887: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3888: </strong></font><br>
3889: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3890: <p>
1.247 jufi 3891: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3892:
1.239 jufi 3893: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3894: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3895:
1.247 jufi 3896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3897: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3898: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3899: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3900: </strong></font><br>
3901: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3902: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3903: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3904: <p>
3905:
1.247 jufi 3906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3907: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3908: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3909: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3910: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3911: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3912: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3913: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3914: <p>
1.247 jufi 3915: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3916:
1.235 lebel 3917: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3918: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3919:
1.239 jufi 3920:
1.247 jufi 3921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3922: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3923: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3924: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3925: </strong></font><br>
3926: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3927: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3928: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3929: <p>
1.301 jose 3930:
1.247 jufi 3931: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3932:
1.228 horacio 3933: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3934: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3935:
1.247 jufi 3936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3937: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3938: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3939: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3940: </strong></font><br>
3941: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3942: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3943: <p>
3944:
1.247 jufi 3945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3946: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3947: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3948: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3949: </strong></font><br>
3950: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3951: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3952: <p>
3953:
1.247 jufi 3954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3955: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3956: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3957: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3958: </strong></font><br>
3959: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3960: on the desktop of his parents.
3961: <p>
3962:
1.247 jufi 3963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3964: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3965: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3966: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3967: </strong></font><br>
3968: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3969: using IPFilter.
3970:
3971: <p>
3972:
1.247 jufi 3973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3974: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3975: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3976: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3977: </strong></font><br>
3978: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3979: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3980: perspectives of the four OS.
3981: <br>
3982: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3983: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3984: <p>
3985:
1.247 jufi 3986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3987: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3988: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3989: software and security</a>,
3990: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3991: </strong></font><br>
3992:
3993: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3994: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3995: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3996: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3997: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3998: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3999: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
4000: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
4001: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
4002: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
4003: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
4004: security conscious team beyond doubt.
4005: <p>
1.247 jufi 4006: </ul>
1.228 horacio 4007:
1.225 horacio 4008: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 4009: <ul>
1.225 horacio 4010:
1.247 jufi 4011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4012: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
4013: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 4014: Interview</a>,
4015: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 4016: </strong></font><br>
4017:
4018: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
4019: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
4020: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 4021: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 4022: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
4023: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
4024: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
4025: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
4026: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 4027: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 4028: of choice.
4029: <p>
1.247 jufi 4030: </ul>
1.225 horacio 4031:
4032: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4033: <ul>
1.225 horacio 4034:
1.247 jufi 4035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4036: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 4037: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
4038: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 4039: </strong></font><br>
4040:
4041: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
4042: <p>
4043:
1.247 jufi 4044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4045: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 4046: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
4047: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 4048: </strong></font><br>
4049:
4050: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
4051: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
4052: <p>
1.247 jufi 4053: </ul>
1.225 horacio 4054:
1.218 horacio 4055: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4056: <ul>
1.218 horacio 4057:
1.247 jufi 4058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 4059: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 4060: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 4061: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 4062: </strong></font><br>
4063:
4064: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
4065: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
4066: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
4067: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
4068: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
4069: subjects. Worth a read.
4070: <p>
4071:
4072:
1.247 jufi 4073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 4074: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 4075: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
4076: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 4077: </strong></font><br>
4078:
4079: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
4080: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
4081: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
4082: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
4083: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
4084: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
4085: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
4086: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
4087: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 4088: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 4089: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
4090: on other operating systems.<br>
4091: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
4092: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
4093: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
4094: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
4095: <p>
4096:
1.247 jufi 4097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4098: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 4099: Operating System 2010</a>,
4100: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 4101: </strong></font><br>
4102:
4103: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
4104: covering the level of software integration into the core
4105: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
4106: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
4107: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
4108: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
4109: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
4110: <p>
4111:
1.247 jufi 4112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 4113: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 4114: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
4115: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 4116: </strong></font><br>
4117:
4118: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
4119: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
4120: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
4121: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
4122: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
4123: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
4124: <p>
1.247 jufi 4125: </ul>
1.221 horacio 4126:
1.210 jufi 4127: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4128: <ul>
1.215 horacio 4129:
1.247 jufi 4130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4131: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 4132: Already a Contender</a>,
4133: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 4134: </strong></font><br>
4135:
4136: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
4137: source software in response to an article which claimed that
4138: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
4139: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
4140: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
4141: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
4142: <p>
4143:
1.247 jufi 4144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 4145: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 4146: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
4147: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 4148: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4149:
1.224 horacio 4150: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
4151: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
4152: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
4153: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
4154: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
4155: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 4156: <p>
1.247 jufi 4157: </ul>
1.215 horacio 4158:
4159: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4160: <ul>
1.215 horacio 4161:
1.247 jufi 4162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4163: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
4164: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 4165: Division</a>,
4166: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 4167: </strong></font><br>
4168:
4169: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
4170: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 4171: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 4172: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
4173: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
4174: investment</em>.<br>
4175: The implementation details can be seen on their
4176: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
4177: <p>
4178:
1.247 jufi 4179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4180: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
4181: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
4182: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
4183: </strong></font><br>
4184:
4185: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
4186: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
4187: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 4188: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 4189: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
4190: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
4191: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
4192: <p>
4193:
4194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4195: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 4196: Thinking about Security</a>,
4197: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 4198: </strong></font><br>
4199:
4200: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
4201: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
4202: security and says that even secured operating systems running
4203: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
4204: to time.<br>
4205: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
4206: system and just the most secure system.
4207: <p>
4208:
1.247 jufi 4209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4210: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 4211: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
4212: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 4213: </strong></font><br>
4214:
4215: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
4216: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
4217: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
4218: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
4219: choice:<br>
4220: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
4221: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
4222: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
4223: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
4224: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
4225: network security devices and as such must be well
4226: armored."</em><br>
4227: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
4228: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
4229: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
4230: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
4231: <br>
4232: Bravo!
4233: <p>
1.247 jufi 4234: </ul>
1.210 jufi 4235:
1.207 ian 4236: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4237: <ul>
1.215 horacio 4238:
1.247 jufi 4239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 4240: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
4241: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
4242: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 4243:
1.207 ian 4244: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
4245: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 4246: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 4247: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
4248: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
4249: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 4250: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 4251: <p>
1.247 jufi 4252: </ul>
1.207 ian 4253:
1.194 jufi 4254: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4255: <ul>
1.194 jufi 4256:
1.247 jufi 4257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4258: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 4259: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
4260: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 4261: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4262:
1.240 miod 4263: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 4264: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
4265: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
4266: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
4267: <p>
4268:
1.247 jufi 4269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4270: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
4271: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
4272: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
4273:
4274: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
4275: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
4276: <p>
4277:
4278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4279: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
4280: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4281: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
4282:
4283: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
4284: <p>
4285:
4286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4287: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 4288: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
4289: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
4290: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4291:
1.240 miod 4292: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 4293: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 4294: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
4295: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 4296: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 4297: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 4298: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
4299: <br>
1.413 deraadt 4300: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 4301: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
4302: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
4303: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
4304: <p>
4305:
1.247 jufi 4306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 4307: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
4308: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 4309: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 4310: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4311:
1.194 jufi 4312: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
4313: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
4314: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
4315: <br>
4316: The new
4317: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 4318: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 4319: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
4320: <p>
1.247 jufi 4321: </ul>
1.194 jufi 4322:
1.190 horacio 4323: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4324: <ul>
1.190 horacio 4325:
1.247 jufi 4326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 4327:
4328: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
4329: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
4330:
1.301 jose 4331:
1.191 jufi 4332: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
4333: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
4334:
4335: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
4336: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
4337:
1.582 grunk 4338: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20010527142347">
1.212 horacio 4339: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 4340: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
4341:
1.211 horacio 4342: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
4343: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 4344: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
4345:
1.247 jufi 4346: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 4347: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
4348:
1.247 jufi 4349: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 4350: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
4351:
1.212 horacio 4352: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
4353: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 4354: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
4355:
4356: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
4357: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
4358:
4359: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
4360: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
4361:
1.301 jose 4362: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
4363: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
4364:
1.191 jufi 4365: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
4366: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
4367:
4368: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 4369: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 4370:
1.192 jufi 4371: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
4372: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 4373: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 4374:
1.193 deraadt 4375: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
4376: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 4377: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 4378:
1.247 jufi 4379: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 4380: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
4381:
1.247 jufi 4382: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 4383: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
4384: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
4385:
1.213 horacio 4386: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 4387: 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 4388: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
4389:
1.190 horacio 4390: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 4391: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
4392: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
4393: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
4394: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
4395: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
4396: <p>
1.190 horacio 4397:
1.247 jufi 4398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4399: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
4400: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
4401: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 4402: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4403:
1.195 jufi 4404: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 4405: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
4406: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
4407: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 4408: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
4409: <p>
4410:
1.247 jufi 4411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4412: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 4413: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
4414: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
4415: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4416:
1.191 jufi 4417: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 4418: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
4419: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
4420: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
4421: <p>
4422:
4423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4424: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
4425: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4426: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
4427:
4428: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
4429: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 4430: <p>
1.247 jufi 4431: </ul>
1.190 horacio 4432:
1.191 jufi 4433:
1.186 jufi 4434: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4435: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 4436:
1.247 jufi 4437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 4438: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 4439: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
4440: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 4441: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 4442:
1.188 jufi 4443: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 4444: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 4445: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 4446: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
4447: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 4448: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 4449: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 4450: <p>
4451:
1.301 jose 4452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4453: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
4454: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4455: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
4456:
4457: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
4458: <p>
1.191 jufi 4459:
1.247 jufi 4460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 4461: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
4462: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 4463: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 4464: </strong></font><br>
4465:
4466: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
4467: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
4468: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
4469: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
4470: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
4471: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
4472: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
4473: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
4474: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
4475: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
4476: familiar?
4477: <p>
1.247 jufi 4478: </ul>
1.191 jufi 4479:
1.178 louis 4480: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4481: <ul>
1.178 louis 4482:
1.247 jufi 4483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 4484: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 4485: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
4486: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 4487: </strong></font><br>
4488:
4489: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
4490: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
4491: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
4492: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
4493: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
4494: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
4495: <p>
4496:
1.247 jufi 4497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4498: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
4499: Open source under the hood</a>,
4500: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 4501: </strong></font><br>
4502:
4503: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
4504: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
4505: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
4506: <p>
4507:
1.247 jufi 4508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4509: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
4510: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
4511: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 4512: </strong></font><br>
4513:
4514: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
4515: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
4516: <p>
1.247 jufi 4517: </ul>
1.179 louis 4518:
1.174 louis 4519:
1.175 louis 4520: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4521: <ul>
1.175 louis 4522:
1.247 jufi 4523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4524: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
4525: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
4526: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 4527: </strong></font><br>
4528:
4529: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
4530: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
4531: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
4532: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
4533: <p>
4534:
1.247 jufi 4535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4536: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
4537: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
4538: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 4539: </strong></font><br>
4540:
4541: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 4542: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 4543: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
4544: <p>
1.247 jufi 4545: </ul>
1.175 louis 4546:
1.176 louis 4547:
1.172 mickey 4548: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4549: <ul>
1.172 mickey 4550:
1.247 jufi 4551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4552: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
4553: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 4554: </strong></font><br>
4555:
4556: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
4557: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
4558: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 4559: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 4560: <p>
4561:
1.247 jufi 4562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 4563: <a
1.269 deraadt 4564: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
4565: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
4566: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 4567: </strong></font><br>
4568:
4569: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
4570: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
4571: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
4572: <p>
4573:
1.247 jufi 4574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4575: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 4576: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
4577: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 4578: </strong></font><br>
4579:
4580: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
4581: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
4582: <p>
4583:
1.247 jufi 4584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4585: <a
1.269 deraadt 4586: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
4587: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 4588: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
4589: </strong></font><br>
4590:
4591: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
4592: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
4593: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
4594: our own Theo de Raadt.
4595: <p>
4596:
1.247 jufi 4597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4598: <a
1.269 deraadt 4599: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
4600: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
4601: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 4602: </strong></font><br>
4603:
4604: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
4605: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
4606: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
4607: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
4608: shut down.]
4609: <p>
4610:
1.247 jufi 4611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4612: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 4613: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 4614: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
4615: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 4616: </strong></font><br>
4617:
4618: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
4619: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
4620: <p>
1.247 jufi 4621: </ul>
1.172 mickey 4622:
1.161 louis 4623: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4624: <ul>
1.161 louis 4625:
1.247 jufi 4626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4627: <a
1.269 deraadt 4628: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
4629: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
4630: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 4631: </strong></font><br>
4632:
4633: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
4634: by John Wolley
4635: <p>
4636:
1.247 jufi 4637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4638: <a
1.269 deraadt 4639: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
4640: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
4641: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 4642: </strong></font><br>
4643:
4644: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
4645: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
4646: OpenBSD).
4647: <p>
4648:
1.247 jufi 4649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4650: <a
1.247 jufi 4651: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 4652: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
4653: </strong></font><br>
4654:
4655: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
4656: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1.585 steven 4657: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports
1.171 louis 4658: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
4659: and hindsight.
4660: <p>
4661:
1.247 jufi 4662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4663: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4664: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4665: </strong></font><br>
4666:
4667: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4668: <p>
4669:
1.247 jufi 4670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4671: <a
1.168 provos 4672: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4673: December 7, 2000
4674: </strong></font><br>
4675:
4676: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4677: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4678: us explain.
4679: <p>
4680:
1.247 jufi 4681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4682: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4683: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4684: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4685: December 6, 2000
4686: </strong></font><br>
4687:
4688: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4689: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4690: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4691: <p>
4692:
1.247 jufi 4693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4694: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4695: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4696: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4697: </strong></font><br>
4698:
4699: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4700: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4701: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4702: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4703: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4704: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4705: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4706: <p>
4707:
4708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4709: <a
1.226 horacio 4710: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4711: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4712: </strong></font><br>
4713:
4714: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4715: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4716: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4717: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4718: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4719: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4720: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4721: <p>
1.162 millert 4722:
1.247 jufi 4723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4724: <a
1.161 louis 4725: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4726: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4727: </strong></font><br>
4728:
4729: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4730: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4731: <p>
4732:
1.247 jufi 4733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4734: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4735: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4736: </strong></font><br>
4737:
4738: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4739: <p>
4740:
4741:
1.247 jufi 4742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4743: <a
1.226 horacio 4744: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4745: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4746: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4747: </strong></font><br>
4748:
4749: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4750: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4751: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4752: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4753: <p>
1.247 jufi 4754: </ul>
1.169 louis 4755:
1.158 louis 4756: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4757: <ul>
1.147 louis 4758:
1.247 jufi 4759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4760: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4761: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4762: </strong></font><br>
4763:
4764: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4765: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4766: <p>
4767:
1.247 jufi 4768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4769: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4770: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4771: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4772: </strong></font><br>
4773: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4774: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4775: <p>
4776:
1.247 jufi 4777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4778: <a
4779: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4780: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4781: </strong></font><br>
4782:
4783: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4784: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4785: <p>
4786:
1.247 jufi 4787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4788: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4789: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4790: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4791:
1.213 horacio 4792: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4793: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4794: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4795: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4796: <p>
1.215 horacio 4797:
1.247 jufi 4798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4799: <a
4800: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4801: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4802: </strong></font><br>
4803:
4804: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4805: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4806: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4807: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4808: much of the attitude too).
4809: <p>
1.161 louis 4810:
1.247 jufi 4811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4812: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4813: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4814: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4815:
1.157 louis 4816: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4817: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4818: <p>
1.247 jufi 4819: </ul>
1.157 louis 4820:
4821: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4822: <ul>
1.157 louis 4823:
1.247 jufi 4824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4825: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4826: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4827: </strong></font><br>
4828:
4829: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4830: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4831: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4832: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4833: <p>
4834:
1.247 jufi 4835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4836: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4837: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4838: </strong></font><br>
4839:
4840: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4841: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4842: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4843: it because they love coding...
4844: <p>
4845:
1.247 jufi 4846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4847: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4848: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4849: </strong></font><br>
4850:
4851: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4852: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4853: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4854: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4855: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4856: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4857: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4858: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4859: <p>
4860:
1.247 jufi 4861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4862: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4863: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4864: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4865: </strong></font><br>
4866:
4867: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4868: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4869: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4870: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4871: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4872: the pizza.
4873: <p>
4874:
1.247 jufi 4875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4876: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4877: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4878: </strong></font><br>
4879:
4880: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4881: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4882: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4883: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4884: problems.
4885: <p>
4886:
1.247 jufi 4887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.568 ian 4888: <a href="https://osuny.co.uk/txt/zines/napalm/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba
4889: to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
1.154 louis 4890: </strong></font><br>
4891:
1.222 miod 4892: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4893: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4894: - whether they like it or not.
4895: <p>
4896:
1.247 jufi 4897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4898: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4899: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4900: </strong></font><br>
4901:
4902: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4903: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4904: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4905: <p>
1.148 aaron 4906:
1.247 jufi 4907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4908: <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 4909: </strong></font><br>
4910:
4911: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4912: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4913: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4914: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4915: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4916: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4917: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4918: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4919: <p>
4920:
1.247 jufi 4921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4922: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4923: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4924: </strong></font><br>
4925:
4926: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4927: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4928: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4929: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4930: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4931: <p>
1.247 jufi 4932: </ul>
1.147 louis 4933:
1.138 louis 4934: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4935: <ul>
1.138 louis 4936:
1.247 jufi 4937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4938: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4939: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4940: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4941: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4942: </strong></font><br>
4943:
1.227 horacio 4944: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4945: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4946: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4947: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4948: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4949: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4950: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4951: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4952: <p>
4953:
1.247 jufi 4954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4955: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4956: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4957: </strong></font><br>
4958:
4959: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4960: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4961: groups, and even Linux.
4962: <p>
4963:
1.247 jufi 4964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4965: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4966: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4967: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4968: </strong></font><br>
4969:
4970: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4971: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4972: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4973: library after installing the OS.
4974: <p>
4975:
1.247 jufi 4976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4977: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4978: Sys Admin, September 2000
4979: </strong></font><br>
4980:
4981: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4982: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4983: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4984: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4985: (<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>,
1.594 nick 4986: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1.247 jufi 4987: <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 4988: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4989: out of the system.
4990: <p>
4991:
1.247 jufi 4992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4993: <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
4994: </strong></font><br>
4995:
4996: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4997: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4998: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4999: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
5000: the IP filtering and address translation.
5001: <p>
1.301 jose 5002:
5003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5004: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
5005: </strong></font><br>
5006:
1.585 steven 5007: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">Ports</a> system that gives
1.301 jose 5008: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
5009: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
5010: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
5011: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
5012: <p>
1.247 jufi 5013: </ul>
1.200 niklas 5014:
1.131 louis 5015: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5016: <ul>
1.131 louis 5017:
1.247 jufi 5018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5019: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
5020: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
5021: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 5022: </strong></font><br>
5023:
5024: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
5025: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
5026: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
5027: <p>
5028:
1.247 jufi 5029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 5030: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
5031: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
5032: </strong></font><br>
5033:
5034: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
5035: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
5036: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
5037: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
5038: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
5039: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
5040: note of"</i>.
5041: <p>
5042:
1.247 jufi 5043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 5044: <a
1.247 jufi 5045: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 5046: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
5047: </strong></font><br>
5048:
5049: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
5050: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
5051: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
5052: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
5053: <p>
5054:
1.247 jufi 5055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 5056: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 5057: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
5058: </strong></font><br>
5059:
5060: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
5061: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
5062: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
5063: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
5064: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
5065: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
5066: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
5067: <p>
5068:
1.247 jufi 5069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 5070: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
5071: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
5072: 2000
5073: </strong></font><br>
5074:
5075: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
5076: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
5077: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
5078: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
5079: against current industry practices.
5080: <p>
5081:
1.247 jufi 5082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 5083: <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
5084: </strong></font><br>
5085:
5086: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
5087: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
5088: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
5089: <p>
5090:
1.247 jufi 5091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 5092: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
5093: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
5094: </strong></font><br>
5095:
5096: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
5097: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
5098: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
5099: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
5100: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
5101: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
5102: careful code reviews, he concludes.
5103: <p>
5104:
1.247 jufi 5105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 5106: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
5107: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
5108: </strong></font><br>
5109:
5110: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
5111: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
5112: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
5113: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
5114: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 5115: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
5116: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
5117: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 5118: <p>
1.247 jufi 5119: </ul>
1.131 louis 5120:
1.118 louis 5121: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5122: <ul>
1.118 louis 5123:
1.247 jufi 5124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 5125: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
5126: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
5127: </strong></font><br>
5128:
5129: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
5130: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
5131: about time. The article mentions that
5132: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
5133: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
5134: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 5135: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 5136: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
5137: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 5138: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 5139: <p>
5140:
1.247 jufi 5141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5142: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 5143: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 5144: </strong></font><br>
5145:
5146: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
5147: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
5148: of OpenSSH.
5149: <p>
5150:
1.247 jufi 5151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5152: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 5153: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 5154: </strong></font><br>
5155:
5156: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 5157: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 5158: bridging.
5159: <p>
5160:
1.247 jufi 5161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5162: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
5163: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 5164: </strong></font><br>
5165:
1.121 deraadt 5166: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
5167: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 5168: <p>
5169:
1.247 jufi 5170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5171: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
5172: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
5173: </strong></font><br>
5174:
5175: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
5176: <p>
5177:
1.247 jufi 5178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.594 nick 5179: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1.120 deraadt 5180: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 5181: </strong></font><br>
5182:
1.120 deraadt 5183: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
5184: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 5185: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
5186: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
5187: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
5188: <p>
5189:
1.247 jufi 5190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 5191: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
5192: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
5193: </strong></font><br>
5194:
1.222 miod 5195: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 5196: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
5197: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
5198: protocols and their quirks.
5199: <p>
5200:
1.247 jufi 5201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5202: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
5203: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 5204: </strong></font><br>
5205:
5206: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
5207: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
5208: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 5209: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 5210: <p>
5211:
1.247 jufi 5212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 5213: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
5214: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
5215: </strong></font><br>
5216:
5217: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
5218: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
5219: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
5220: <p>
5221:
1.247 jufi 5222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.594 nick 5223: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1.120 deraadt 5224: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 5225: </strong></font><br>
5226:
5227: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
5228: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
5229: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
5230: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
5231: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
5232: <p>
1.247 jufi 5233: </ul>
1.118 louis 5234:
1.104 louis 5235: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5236: <ul>
1.104 louis 5237:
1.247 jufi 5238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 5239: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
5240: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
5241: </strong></font><br>
5242:
5243: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
5244: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
5245: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
5246: be a bit dry.
5247: <p>
5248:
1.247 jufi 5249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 5250: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
5251: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
5252: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
5253: </strong></font><br>
5254: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
5255: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
5256: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
5257: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
5258: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
5259: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
5260: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
5261: <p>
5262:
1.247 jufi 5263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5264: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
5265: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 5266: 2000
1.128 louis 5267: </strong></font><br>
5268:
5269: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
5270: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
5271: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
5272: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
5273: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 5274: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 5275: <p>
5276:
1.247 jufi 5277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5278: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
5279: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 5280: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 5281:
5282: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
5283: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
5284: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
5285: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.585 steven 5286: <a href="faq/ports/index.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1.113 naddy 5287: <p>
1.110 louis 5288:
1.247 jufi 5289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 5290: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
5291: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
5292: </strong></font><br>
5293:
5294: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
5295: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
5296: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
5297: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
5298: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
5299: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
5300: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
5301: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
5302: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
5303: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
5304: <p>
5305:
1.247 jufi 5306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 5307: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5308: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 5309:
5310: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
5311: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 5312: <p>
1.108 louis 5313:
1.247 jufi 5314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 5315: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
5316: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 5317: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 5318:
5319: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
5320: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
5321: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 5322: <p>
1.106 louis 5323:
1.247 jufi 5324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 5325: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
5326: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 5327: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 5328:
5329: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
5330: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
5331: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
5332: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 5333: <p>
1.107 louis 5334:
1.247 jufi 5335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5336: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
5337: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5338: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 5339:
5340: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
5341: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 5342: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 5343: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
5344: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 5345: <p>
1.105 louis 5346:
1.247 jufi 5347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 5348: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 5349: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 5350: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 5351:
1.113 naddy 5352: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
5353: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 5354: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 5355: <p>
1.104 louis 5356:
1.247 jufi 5357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5358: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
5359: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
5360: </strong></font><br>
5361:
5362: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
5363: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
5364: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
5365: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
5366: <p>
1.301 jose 5367:
5368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5369: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.577 tobias 5370: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
1.301 jose 5371: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
5372:
5373: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
5374: hardware-supported cryptography.
5375: <p>
1.247 jufi 5376: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 5377:
1.85 louis 5378: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5379: <ul>
1.85 louis 5380:
1.247 jufi 5381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5382: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 5383: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 5384: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5385:
5386: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
5387: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
5388: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
5389: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
5390: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
5391: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
5392: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 5393: <p>
1.99 louis 5394:
1.247 jufi 5395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5396: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 5397: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5398: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 5399:
5400: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
5401: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
5402: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
5403: conditions.
1.113 naddy 5404: <p>
1.100 louis 5405:
1.247 jufi 5406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5407: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 5408: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5409: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 5410:
5411: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
5412: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
5413: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
5414: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 5415: <p>
1.95 louis 5416:
1.247 jufi 5417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5418: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 5419: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5420: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 5421:
5422: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
5423: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 5424: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 5425: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
5426: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5427: <p>
1.92 louis 5428:
1.247 jufi 5429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5430: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 5431: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5432: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 5433:
5434: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
5435: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
5436: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
5437: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
5438: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
5439: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 5440: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 5441: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 5442: <p>
1.91 louis 5443:
1.247 jufi 5444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5445: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
5446: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 5447: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5448:
5449: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
5450: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
5451: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
5452: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
5453: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
5454: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
5455: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
5456: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
5457: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 5458: <p>
1.90 louis 5459:
1.247 jufi 5460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5461: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
5462: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
5463: </strong></font><br>
5464: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
5465: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
5466: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
5467: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
5468: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
5469: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
5470: <p>
5471:
1.247 jufi 5472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 5473: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
5474: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5475: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 5476:
1.113 naddy 5477: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
5478: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 5479: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
5480: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
5481: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
5482: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
5483: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 5484: <p>
1.87 louis 5485:
1.247 jufi 5486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 5487: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
5488: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 5489: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5490:
5491: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 5492: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 5493: <p>
1.85 louis 5494:
1.247 jufi 5495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5496: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
5497: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
5498: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
5499:
5500: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
5501: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
5502: <p>
5503:
5504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 5505: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
5506: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5507: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 5508:
5509: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.577 tobias 5510: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 5511: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
5512: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 5513: <p>
1.89 louis 5514:
1.247 jufi 5515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5516: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 5517: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5518: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5519:
5520: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
5521: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
5522: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
5523: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
5524: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 5525: </ul>
1.85 louis 5526:
1.78 deraadt 5527: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5528: <ul>
1.74 louis 5529:
1.247 jufi 5530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5531: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 5532: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 5533: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 5534: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5535:
5536: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
5537: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
5538: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5539: <p>
1.83 louis 5540:
1.247 jufi 5541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 5542: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
5543: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5544: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 5545:
5546: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
5547: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 5548: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 5549: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
5550: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 5551: <p>
1.93 louis 5552:
1.247 jufi 5553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5554: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
5555: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
5556: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5557: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 5558:
1.83 louis 5559: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
5560: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
5561: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
5562: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
5563: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 5564: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
5565: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
5566: <p>
1.82 aaron 5567:
1.247 jufi 5568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5569: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 5570: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5571: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 5572:
1.83 louis 5573: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
5574: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
5575: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 5576: <p>
1.80 louis 5577:
1.247 jufi 5578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5579: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 5580: Bad Press</a>,
5581: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 5582: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 5583:
5584: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 5585: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 5586: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
5587: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
5588: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 5589: <p>
1.247 jufi 5590: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 5591:
5592: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5593: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 5594:
1.247 jufi 5595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5596: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
5597: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 5598: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 5599: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 5600:
5601: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
5602: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
5603: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
5604: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 5605: <p>
1.74 louis 5606:
1.247 jufi 5607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 5608: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
5609: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 5610: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5611:
1.219 horacio 5612: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
5613: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
5614: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
5615: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
5616: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
5617: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
5618: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 5619: <p>
1.88 louis 5620:
1.247 jufi 5621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 5622: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 5623: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 5624: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 5625:
5626: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
5627: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
5628: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
5629: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 5630: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 5631: <p>
1.81 louis 5632:
1.247 jufi 5633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5634: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 5635: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5636: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5637:
5638: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
5639: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
5640: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
5641: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
5642: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
5643: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
5644: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 5645: <p>
1.90 louis 5646:
1.247 jufi 5647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5648: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 5649: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5650: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 5651:
5652: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
5653: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
5654: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 5655: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 5656: <p>
1.247 jufi 5657: </ul>
1.71 louis 5658:
1.69 deraadt 5659: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5660: <ul>
1.70 louis 5661:
1.247 jufi 5662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5663: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5664: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5665: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5666:
5667: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5668: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5669: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5670: <p>
1.70 louis 5671:
1.247 jufi 5672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5673: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5674: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5675: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5676:
5677: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5678: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5679: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5680: <p>
1.68 louis 5681:
1.247 jufi 5682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5683: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5684: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5685: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5686: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5687:
1.111 jufi 5688: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5689: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5690: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5691: "secure by default" installation.
5692: <p>
1.64 louis 5693:
1.247 jufi 5694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5695: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5696: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5697: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5698:
1.113 naddy 5699: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5700: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5701: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5702: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5703: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5704: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5705: <p>
1.66 louis 5706:
1.247 jufi 5707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5708: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5709: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5710: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5711:
5712: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5713: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5714: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5715: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5716: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5717: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5718: <p>
1.83 louis 5719:
1.247 jufi 5720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5721: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5722: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5723: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5724:
5725: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5726: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5727: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5728: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5729: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5730: <p>
1.64 louis 5731:
1.247 jufi 5732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5733: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5734: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5735: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5736:
5737: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5738: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5739: <p>
1.301 jose 5740:
5741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5742: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5743: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5744: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5745: </strong></font><br>
5746:
5747: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5748: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5749: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5750: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5751: Giving way to
5752: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5753: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5754: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5755: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5756: <p>
1.247 jufi 5757: </ul>
1.65 louis 5758:
1.69 deraadt 5759: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5760: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5761:
1.247 jufi 5762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5763: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5764: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5765: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5766:
5767: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5768: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5769: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5770: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5771: <p>
1.88 louis 5772:
1.247 jufi 5773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5774: <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 5775: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5776:
5777: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5778: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5779: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5780: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5781: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5782: <p>
1.60 louis 5783:
1.247 jufi 5784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5785: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5786: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5787: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5788: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5789:
5790: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5791: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5792: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5793: <p>
1.58 louis 5794:
1.247 jufi 5795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5796: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5797: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5798:
5799: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5800: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5801: <p>
1.53 louis 5802:
1.247 jufi 5803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5804: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5805: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5806: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5807:
5808: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5809: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5810: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5811: <p>
1.99 louis 5812:
1.247 jufi 5813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5814: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5815: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5816:
5817: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5818: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5819: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5820: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5821: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5822:
1.247 jufi 5823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5824: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5825: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5826: </strong></font><br>
5827:
5828: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5829: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5830: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5831: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5832: <p>
5833:
1.247 jufi 5834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5835: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5836: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5837: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5838:
5839: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5840: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5841: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5842:
1.247 jufi 5843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5844: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5845: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5846:
5847: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5848: in
1.247 jufi 5849: <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 5850: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5851: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5852: <p>
1.53 louis 5853:
1.247 jufi 5854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5855: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5856: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5857: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5858: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5859:
1.58 louis 5860: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5861: <p>
1.301 jose 5862:
5863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5864: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5865: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5866: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5867: Informacyjny, January 2000
5868: </strong></font><br>
5869:
5870: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5871: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5872: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5873: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5874: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5875: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5876: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5877: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5878: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5879: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5880: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5881: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5882: <p>
5883:
5884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5885: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5886: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5887: </strong></font><br>
5888:
5889: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5890: <p>
5891: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5892:
1.69 deraadt 5893: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5894: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5895:
1.247 jufi 5896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5897: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5898: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5899: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5900: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5901:
1.58 louis 5902: Kurt Seifried
5903: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5904: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5905: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5906: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5907:
1.247 jufi 5908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5909: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5910: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5911: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5912:
5913: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5914: <p>
1.96 louis 5915:
1.247 jufi 5916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5917: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5918: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5919: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5920: </strong></font><br>
5921:
5922: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5923: <p>
5924:
5925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5926: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5927: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5928: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5929:
5930: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5931: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5932: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5933: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5934: <p>
1.247 jufi 5935: </ul>
1.86 louis 5936:
1.69 deraadt 5937: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5938: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5939:
1.247 jufi 5940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5941: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5942: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5943: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5944:
5945: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5946: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5947: <p>
1.61 louis 5948:
1.247 jufi 5949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5950: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5951: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5952: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5953: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5954:
5955: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5956: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5957: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5958: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5959: right -- or at least strives to".
5960: <p>
1.48 louis 5961:
1.247 jufi 5962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5963: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5964: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5965: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5966: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5967: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5968: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5969: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5970: <p>
1.61 louis 5971:
1.247 jufi 5972: <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 5973: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5974: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5975:
5976: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5977: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5978: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5979: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5980: <p>
1.46 louis 5981:
1.247 jufi 5982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5983: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5984: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5985: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5986:
5987: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5988: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5989: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5990:
1.247 jufi 5991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5992: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5993: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5994: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5995:
5996: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5997: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5998: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5999: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 6000: <p>
1.247 jufi 6001: </ul>
1.70 louis 6002:
1.69 deraadt 6003: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6004: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6005:
1.247 jufi 6006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 6007: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
6008: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 6009: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 6010: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 6011:
6012: Kurt Seifried
6013: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
6014: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
6015: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 6016: <p>
1.44 philen 6017:
1.247 jufi 6018: <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 6019: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 6020: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 6021:
6022: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 6023: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 6024:
1.247 jufi 6025: <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 6026: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 6027: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 6028:
6029: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 6030: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 6031:
1.247 jufi 6032: <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 6033: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 6034: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 6035:
6036: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
6037: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
6038: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
6039: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 6040: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 6041:
1.247 jufi 6042: <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 6043: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 6044: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 6045:
1.36 louis 6046: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 6047: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 6048:
1.247 jufi 6049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6050: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 6051: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 6052: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 6053:
6054: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 6055: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 6056: </ul>
1.38 louis 6057:
1.69 deraadt 6058: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6059: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6060:
1.247 jufi 6061: <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 6062: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 6063: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 6064:
6065: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
6066: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 6067: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 6068:
1.113 naddy 6069: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 6070: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 6071: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 6072: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 6073:
6074: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
6075: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 6076: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
6077: terminal:
1.113 naddy 6078: <blockquote>
6079: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
6080: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
6081: <br>
6082: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
6083: </code>
6084: </blockquote>
6085: <p>
6086:
1.247 jufi 6087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 6088: <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 6089: <p>
6090:
6091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6092: <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 6093: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 6094:
6095: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
6096: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 6097: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 6098: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 6099:
1.247 jufi 6100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 6101: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
6102: Sept. 28, 1999
6103: </strong></font><br>
6104:
6105: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
6106: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
6107: translating and reprinting articles from
6108: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
6109: <p>
6110:
6111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 6112: <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 6113: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 6114:
6115: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
6116: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
6117: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
6118: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
6119: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 6120: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 6121: <p>
1.19 louis 6122:
1.113 naddy 6123: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 6124: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 6125: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 6126:
6127: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
6128: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
6129: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 6130: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
6131: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 6132: <p>
1.16 louis 6133:
1.247 jufi 6134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6135: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 6136: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 6137: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 6138:
1.57 louis 6139: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
6140: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
6141: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 6142: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 6143:
1.247 jufi 6144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6145: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 6146: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 6147: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6148:
1.113 naddy 6149: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 6150:
1.247 jufi 6151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 6152: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
6153: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 6154: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 6155:
1.23 louis 6156: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
6157: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
6158: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
6159: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
6160: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 6161: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 6162:
1.247 jufi 6163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 6164: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
6165: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 6166: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 6167:
1.199 pvalchev 6168: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 6169: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
6170: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
6171: installation.
1.113 naddy 6172: <p>
1.47 louis 6173:
1.247 jufi 6174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6175: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 6176: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 6177: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6178:
1.301 jose 6179: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
6180: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
6181: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 6182: </ul>
1.57 louis 6183:
1.69 deraadt 6184: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6185: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6186:
1.247 jufi 6187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 6188: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 6189: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 6190: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 6191:
6192: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
6193: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 6194: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6195: <p>
1.12 louis 6196:
1.247 jufi 6197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 6198: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 6199: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 6200: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 6201:
6202: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
6203: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 6204: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
6205: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
6206: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
6207: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
6208: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 6209: <p>
1.247 jufi 6210: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 6211:
1.69 deraadt 6212: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6213: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 6214:
1.247 jufi 6215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 6216: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 6217: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 6218:
6219: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
6220: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
6221: available."
1.113 naddy 6222: <p>
1.301 jose 6223:
6224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6225: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
6226: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
6227: </strong></font><br>
6228:
6229: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
6230: <p>
1.247 jufi 6231: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 6232:
1.69 deraadt 6233: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6234: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6235:
1.247 jufi 6236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 6237: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 6238: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 6239:
6240: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
6241: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
6242: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
6243: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
6244: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 6245: <p>
1.33 louis 6246:
1.247 jufi 6247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6248: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 6249: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 6250: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6251:
1.113 naddy 6252: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
6253: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 6254: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
6255: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
6256: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 6257: <p>
1.247 jufi 6258: </ul>
1.57 louis 6259:
1.69 deraadt 6260: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6261: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6262:
1.247 jufi 6263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6264: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 6265: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 6266: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6267:
6268: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
6269: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 6270: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6271:
1.247 jufi 6272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 6273: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
6274: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
6275: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 6276: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 6277:
6278: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 6279: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 6280:
1.247 jufi 6281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6282: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6283:
1.113 naddy 6284: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 6285:
1.247 jufi 6286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6287: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 6288: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 6289: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6290:
6291: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 6292: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 6293: </ul>
1.23 louis 6294:
1.69 deraadt 6295: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6296: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6297:
1.247 jufi 6298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 6299: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 6300: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6301:
6302: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
6303: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 6304: <p>
1.2 deraadt 6305:
1.247 jufi 6306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6307: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 6308: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 6309: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6310:
6311: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
6312: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 6313: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 6314: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 6315: </ul>
1.57 louis 6316:
1.69 deraadt 6317: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6318: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6319:
1.247 jufi 6320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6321: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 6322: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 6323: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 6324:
6325: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
6326: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
6327: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
6328: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6329: <p>
1.15 louis 6330:
1.247 jufi 6331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6332: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
6333: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 6334: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6335:
6336: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
6337: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
6338: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
6339: columns."
1.113 naddy 6340: <p>
1.247 jufi 6341: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6342:
1.69 deraadt 6343: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6344: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6345:
1.247 jufi 6346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6347: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 6348: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 6349: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 6350:
6351: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 6352: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 6353:
1.113 naddy 6354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6355: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 6356: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6357:
6358: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
6359: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 6360: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 6361: </ul>
1.57 louis 6362:
1.69 deraadt 6363: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6364: <ul>
1.301 jose 6365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6366: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
6367: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6368: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
6369:
6370: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
6371: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
6372: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
6373: <p>
6374:
6375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6376: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
6377: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6378: Nov 13, 1998 and
6379: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
6380: Datateknik</a>,
6381: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
6382:
1.380 saad 6383: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 6384: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
6385: explains the licensing issues and points to our
6386: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
6387: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6388:
1.113 naddy 6389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6390: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 6391: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 6392: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6393:
1.222 miod 6394: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 6395: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
6396: Implementation, including a brief interview with
6397: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 6398: <p>
1.247 jufi 6399: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6400:
1.69 deraadt 6401: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6402: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6403:
1.247 jufi 6404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6405: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 6406: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6407:
1.69 deraadt 6408: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
6409: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 6410: <p>
1.247 jufi 6411: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6412:
1.69 deraadt 6413: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6414: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 6415:
1.247 jufi 6416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6417: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
6418: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 6419: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6420:
1.383 jcs 6421: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 6422: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 6423: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6424:
1.247 jufi 6425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 6426: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 6427: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
6428: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 6429: <p>
1.247 jufi 6430: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6431:
1.69 deraadt 6432: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6433: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6434:
1.247 jufi 6435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6436: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 6437: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
6438: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 6439: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 6440: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6441:
6442: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
6443: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
6444: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 6445: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 6446: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 6447: <p>
1.247 jufi 6448: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 6449:
6450: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6451: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6452:
1.247 jufi 6453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6454: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 6455: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 6456:
1.69 deraadt 6457: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
6458: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 6459: <p>
1.112 naddy 6460:
1.247 jufi 6461: </ul>
1.113 naddy 6462: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6463:
1.292 camield 6464: <hr>
1.216 horacio 6465: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 6466: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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1.1 deraadt 6468:
6469: </body>
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