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