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16: <font color="#0000ff"><i>Open</i></font><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
17: <font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font>
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1.112 naddy 20: <p>
1.1 deraadt 21:
1.597 deraadt 22: <h2>
23: This page has become unmaintained since 2011, perhaps because software
24: development is more interesting than following the news.
25: </h2>
26:
1.598 espie 27: <h2>March, 2014</h2>
28: <ul>
29: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
1.600 bentley 30: <a href="http://www.lesechos.fr/entreprises-secteurs/tech-medias/actu/0203393893415-la-france-met-ses-developpeurs-a-l-honneur-659366.php">La France met ses développeurs à l'honneur</a>
31: Les échos, April 24, 2014
1.598 espie 32: </strong></font><br>
1.599 espie 33: In french.
1.598 espie 34: An offical report for the french ministy of digital economy, about 100
35: influential french developers.
36: OpenBSD figures proudly with two separate entries.
37: <p>
38: </ul>
39:
1.591 ian 40: <h2>April, 2011</h2>
41: <ul>
42:
43: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
1.606 tb 44: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110420080633'>
1.591 ian 45: A Puffy in the Corporate Aquarium</a>
46: undeadly.org, April 20, 2011
47: </strong></font><br>
48: Antoine Ajacoutot offers a detailed write-up on exactly how his
49: employer M:Tier supports OpenBSD for corporate use, surprisingly
50: both on desktops and on servers. They have converted whole companies
51: to OpenBSD; under the heading of "Joe User meets OpenBSD", he reports
52: on how even long-time MS-Windows users can get used to switching to
53: OpenOffice and Gnome desktop.
54: <p>
55:
56: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
57: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/14274/original/FreeBSD_Portability_With_VMware_BSD_04_2011.pdf'>
58: OpenBSD improves upon /etc/rc.d/</a>
59: BSDmag, April, 2011, p. 12
1.593 ian 60: </strong></font>(PDF download of entire issue)<br>
1.591 ian 61: As OpenBSD moves away from requiring manual editing of /etc/rc for most daemons,
62: Ian Darwin covers the new rc.d mechanism.
63: "The OpenBSD developers did not adopt a change like this until they
64: were sure they had a mechanism that was both simple to implement
65: and simple to use."
66: <p>
67:
68: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
69: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/14274/original/FreeBSD_Portability_With_VMware_BSD_04_2011.pdf'>
70: Build appliances with QEMU and OpenBSD</a>
71: BSDmag, April, 2011, p. 24
1.593 ian 72: </strong></font>(PDF download of entire issue)<br>
1.591 ian 73: Girish Venkatachalam shows how easy it is to create ready-to-run disk images
74: containing OpenBSD with whatever ports/packages you want to add,
75: that are shareable for use by anyone, either under QEMU or on bare metal.
76: <p>
77: </ul>
78:
1.590 ian 79: <h2>March, 2011</h2>
80: <ul>
81: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
82: <a href='http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/?p=605'>
83: My OpenBSD Story: Memories of a Network disaster</a>
84: Blather.MichaelWLucas.com, March 9, 2011
85: </strong></font><br>
86: It was a dark and stormy night back in 2000, a very long night, as Michael Lucas (who would later author
87: Absolute OpenBSD) struggled to get his company's hosting service back online.
88: You can probably guess that the happy ending involves "OpenBSD to the rescue".
89: <p>
90:
91: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
92: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/14202/original/The_Wonders_Of_Blender_BSD_03_2011.pdf'>
93: How To Setup OpenBSD On The Embedded Alix</a>,
94: BSD Mag, March, 2011, p. 30
1.593 ian 95: </strong></font>(PDF download of entire issue)<br>
1.590 ian 96: Guillaume Duale tells how to install our favorite OS on the popular embedded-size ALIX card.
97: <p>
98:
99: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
100: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/14202/original/The_Wonders_Of_Blender_BSD_03_2011.pdf'>
101: Run Your Phone System on OpenBSD</a>,
102: BSD Mag, March, 2011, p. 12
1.593 ian 103: </strong></font>(PDF download of entire issue)<br>
1.590 ian 104: Ian Darwin describes running some home/office telephone systems on Asterisk
105: on a secure operating system - what works, what doesn't (and why),
106: and how to get started.
107: <p>
108:
109: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
110: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/14202/original/The_Wonders_Of_Blender_BSD_03_2011.pdf'>
111: Useful OpenBSD Tools</a>,
112: BSD Mag, March, 2011, p. 42
1.593 ian 113: </strong></font>(PDF download of entire issue)<br>
1.590 ian 114: Girish Venkatachalam describes a panoply of tools that he finds useful on OpenBSD, to wit,
115: dump(8) and restore(8), qemu, sha1, ifconfig, relayd and spamd.
116: <p>
117:
118: </ul>
119:
120: <h2>February, 2011</h2>
121: <ul>
122: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
123: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/'>
124: Your OpenBSD Story</a>
125: undeadly.org, February, 2011
126: </strong></font><br>
127: Undeadly is running a series of stories on how people got started with OpenBSD.
128: Most tell what they like about the system.
129: Since OpenBSD runs well on minimal hardware, many of the stories involve
130: solving an under-funding crisis at startups.
131: See those by
1.606 tb 132: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110227014419'>Daniel Gracia</a>,
133: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110303020219'>Nick Humphrey</a>, and
134: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110308003706'>Henrik Kramshoe</a>
1.590 ian 135: <p>
136:
137: </ul>
138:
139: <h2>January, 2011</h2>
140: <ul>
141: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
142: <a href='http://bsdmag.org/system/articles/attachment1s/13827/original/BSDs_and_Solaris_BSD_01_2011.pdf'>
143: Text Terminal magic with tmux</a>
144: BSD Mag, January, 2011, p. 20
145: </strong></font>(PDF download)<br>
146: Tmux(1) is OpenBSD's replacement for GNU screen(1) terminal multiplexor.
147: Girish Venkatachalam discusses tmux's advantages and how to use it.
148: <p>
149:
150:
151: </ul>
152:
153:
1.589 ian 154: <h2>December, 2010</h2>
155: <ul>
156: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
157: <a href='http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4833'>
158: Use firewall software like PF to protect your desktop systems</a>
159: techrepublic.com, December 13, 2010
160: </strong></font><br>
161: A good overview of the importance of using a firewall for the semi-technical crowd.
162: "One of the most highly regarded suites of firewall software is the OpenBSD project's PF,
163: which has been ported to every major BSD Unix system..."
164: Gives a single example of a pf rules file; one of the comments gives
165: links to additional references.
166: <p>
167:
168: </ul>
169:
1.586 ian 170: <h2>November, 2010</h2>
171: <ul>
172:
173: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
1.606 tb 174: <a href='http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODc0NA'>
1.586 ian 175: OpenBSD 4.8 Brings Improved Hardware Support</a>
176: www.phoronix.com, November 1, 2010
177: </strong></font><br>
178: Good coverage of the release: new drivers, new features, and more.
179: <p>
180:
181: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
1.606 tb 182: <a href='http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20101101163826'>
1.586 ian 183: OpenBSD 4.8 Released!</a>
184: www.undeadly.org, November 1, 2010
185: </strong></font><br>
186: Undeadly mentions the release; this article has a full list of the
187: enhancements and improvements.
188: <p>
189:
190: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
191: <a href='http://www.osnews.com/story/23978/OpenBSD_4_8_Released'>
192: OpenBSD 4.8 Released</a>
1.587 ian 193: www.osnews.com, November 1, 2010
1.586 ian 194: </strong></font><br>
195: OSNews again is one of the first out with coverage of the 4.8 release,
196: although it's just a summary this time out.
197: <p>
198:
199: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
200: <a href='http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=openbsd'>
201: DistroWatch.com: OpenBSD</a>
202: distrowatch.com, November 1, 2010
203: </strong></font><br>
204: DistroWatch has a list of many links related to OpenBSD,
205: and have updated their site to reflect the 4.8 release.
206: <p>
207:
208: </ul>
1.584 jasper 209:
210: <h2>September, 2009</h2>
211: <ul>
212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
213: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1393496">
214: Security in your pocket: OpenBSD on ARM</a>, informIT, September 11, 2009
215: </strong></font><br>
216: Interview with Dale Rahn (drahn@) about OpenBSD on ARM handheld systems and
217: why users and vendors should consider it as a real alternative.
218: <p>
219: </ul>
220:
1.582 grunk 221: <h2>January, 2009</h2>
222: <ul>
223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
224: [GERMAN]
225: <a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre105.html">
226: OpenBSD -- Technik und Entwicklerkultur des alternativen Betriebssystems
227: </a>, Chaosradio Express, January 28, 2009</strong></font><br>
228: OpenBSD developer Felix Kronlage (fkr@openbsd.org) in interview
229: with Chaosradio Express host Tim Pritlove from the Chaos Computer Club.
230: <p>
231: </ul>
232:
1.581 ian 233: <h2>April, 2008</h2>
234: <ul>
235:
236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
237: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/19700/OpenBSD_4.3_Released">
238: OpenBSD 4.3 Released</a>, OSNews, April 30, 2008
239: </strong></font><br>
240: OSNews is among the first to mention the newest release:
241: "Theo de Raadt has lifted the veil off OpenBSD 4.3. <i>We are pleased
242: to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.3. This is our 23nd
243: release on CD-ROM (and 24rd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's
244: record of more than ten years with only two remote holes in the
245: default install.</i> Boasting as always, but when it's justified,
246: arrogance is a virtue."
247: <p>
248:
249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
250: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2008/04/29/puffy-and-the-crytonauts-whats-new-in-openbsd-43.html">
251: Puffy and the Cryptonauts: What's New in OpenBSD 4.3</a>, onLamp, April 29, 2008
252: </strong></font><br>
253: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD developers
254: about the changes in the 4.3 release, providing a more comprehensive overview
255: than others.
256: Topics range across
257: networking (including new and improved drivers, and our own SNMP implementation),
258: storage (faster flash, bigger disk support),
259: platforms (Sparc64 SMP, audio drivers),
260: kernel improvements, malloc support, read/write cleanups, and much more.
261: <p>
262:
263: </ul>
264:
1.573 ian 265: <h2>November, 2007</h2>
266: <ul>
267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.574 ian 268: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/87">
269: Using OpenBSD 4.2</a>, Software In Review, November 5, 2007
270: </strong></font><br>
271: Jem Matzem advocates using OpenBSD and shows readers how to get
272: started and some hints on using the system after it's installed,
273: including setting up ports/packages to use third-party software.
274: Under the "For More Information" category, he acknowledges that
275: "OpenBSD has the most thorough, easy to follow native documentation
276: of any Unix-like operating system..."
277: <p>
278:
279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
280: <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/a_few_cheers_fo.html">
281: A Few Cheers For OpenBSD</a>, Information Week, November 2, 2007
282: </strong></font><br>
283: "With all of the hollering about Linux..., there's another open-source
284: operating system that just celebrated getting a new 4.2 release out
285: the door. It's one that hasn't been quite as widely-celebrated as
286: Linux but is still deeply important in its own way: OpenBSD"
287: Talks about how BSD is real UNIX, and what that means, and our
288: security policy "secure by default".
289: Ends with a reminder that Linux is
290: "not the only open-source, Unix-like game in town."
291: <p>
292:
293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.573 ian 294: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/7155">
295: Puffy's Marathon: What's New in OpenBSD 4.2</a>, onLamp, Nov 1, 2007
296: </strong></font><br>
297: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed almost two dozen OpenBSD developers
298: and combined their comments into this interview. Opens with:
299: "...this release comes with some amazing performance improvements: basic
300: benchmarks showed PF being twice as fast, a rewrite of the TLB
301: shootdown code for i386 and amd64 cut the time to do a full package
302: build by 20 percent (mostly because all the forks in configure
303: scripts have become much cheaper), and the improved frequency scaling
304: on MP systems can help save nearly 20 percent of battery power.
305: <p>
306: "And then the new features: FFS2, support for the Advanced Host
307: Controller Interface, IP balancing in CARP, layer 7 manipulation
308: with hoststated, Xenocara, and more!"
309: <p>
310: And goes on to discuss each of these and more with the good folk
311: who make it happen.
312: <p>
313:
314: </ul>
315:
1.572 ian 316: <h2>July, 2007</h2>
317: <ul>
318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
319: <a href="http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/797/openbsd-encrypted-nas-howto">
1.578 ian 320: OpenBSD Encrypted NAS How-To</a>, geektechnique.org, July 15, 2007
1.572 ian 321: </strong></font><br>
322: Mark Hoekstra gives a detailed step-by-step description of how to
323: build an encrypted
324: network storage box using off-the-shelf hardware and OpenBSD software.
325: <br>
326: Also reported in
327: <a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/07/16/002203.shtml">SlashDot
328: </a> and
329: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/news.php?id=14877">net-security</a>.
330: <p>
331:
332: </ul>
333:
1.569 ian 334: <h2>May, 2007</h2>
335: <ul>
336:
337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.570 simon 338: [GERMAN]
339: OpenBSD 4.1 bietet Lastverteilung auf Layer 7,
340: iX magazine, May 18, 2007
341: </strong></font><br>
342: The German IT magazine iX reviews the new hoststated(8) Host Status Daemon that
343: comes with OpenBSD 4.1. The article describes various configurations including
344: SSL acceleration and gives a good insight into what hoststated(8) can do for the
345: reader.
346: <p>
347:
348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.569 ian 349: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html">
350: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again</a>, ONLamp, May 5, 2007
351: </strong></font><br>
352: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a number of developers about the major
353: changes in 4.1: Mark Kettenis on UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC T1;
354: Otto Moerbeek on the landisk port and fsck_ffs;
355: Artur Grabowski on rthreads and AMD64 timekeeping;
356: Kurt Miller on pthreads and, with Robert Nagy, on OpenOffice;
357: Marc Espie on the changes "under the hood" in
358: the package tools and on the new pkg_config;
359: Matthieu Herrb on our new X11 build system xenocara,
1.575 tobias 360: Henning Brauer on syslogd, hoststated and RSTP;
1.569 ian 361: Henning and Claudio Jeker on a variety of topics in routing and PF;
362: Bob Beck on spam fighting;
363: and Jonathan Gray on WEP and on why authpf is better than WPA/WPA2.
364: Quite readable overview of some of the main issues in this release.
1.582 grunk 365: <br>
366: Linked to from
1.569 ian 367: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17851/OpenBSD-4.1-Puffy-Strikes-Again/">OSNews</a>.
368: Mentions of the release also appeared in
369: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1483">Tectonic</a>,
370: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/07/05/02/1320248.shtml">Newsforge</a>
371: and
372: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/07/05/01/2231229.shtml">SlashDot</a>
373: (the latter two include pointers to official release announcements).
374: <p>
375:
376: </ul>
377:
1.565 ian 378: <h2>April, 2007</h2>
379: <ul>
380:
381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
382: <a href="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1522252">
383: Reducing spam with OpenBSD and spamd</a>, Linux.com, April 11, 2007
384: </strong></font><br>
385: This is the first installment of a multi-part article on using OpenBSD's
386: anti-spam tools. This part contains a general overview of spamd, greylisting
387: and tarpitting. Later installments will cover the how-to details.
388: <p>
389:
390:
391: </ul>
392:
1.560 ian 393: <h2>March, 2007</h2>
394: <ul>
395:
396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.564 ian 397: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/bsdtalk105-intro-to-pf-with-jason-dixon.html">
398: Introduction to PF with Jason Dixon</a>, BSDTalk 105, March 26, 2007
399: </strong></font><br>
400: Jason provides a nice general overview of OpenBSD's Packet Filter PF,
401: emphasizing the "why" rather than the "how" of using PF.
402: Goes over pf's history, initial setup, stateful filtering,
403: normalization with "scrub", use of synproxy, authpf,
404: CARP and pfsync, GUI configurations vs config files, the pfsense project,
1.576 martynas 405: logging, transparent bridges, AltQ queuing, macros, lists and tables,
1.579 ian 406: and the tie-in to spamd.
1.564 ian 407: <p>
408:
409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.582 grunk 410: <a href="http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=30120&hilite=">
1.560 ian 411: Welsh Government Agency demonstrates Open Source best practice</a>,
412: SourceWire, March 8, 2007
413: </strong></font><br>
1.562 ian 414: The Countryside Council for Wales, the UK Government's regional wildlife
415: conservation authority for Wales, has hired UK Open Source service provider Sirius
1.561 saad 416: Corporation to extend OpenBSD's interoperability with the proprietary
417: Cisco IOS software; part of the agreement calls for Sirius to contribute
418: its source changes back to the OpenBSD project.
1.560 ian 419: <p>
420:
421: </ul>
1.558 ian 422:
1.556 matthieu 423: <h2>February, 2007</h2>
424: <ul>
425:
426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.558 ian 427: <a href="http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/is_symantecs_vista_security_assessment_credible.html">
428: Is Symantec's Vista Security Assessment Credible?</a>, Microsoft Watch, February 28, 2007
429: </strong></font><br>
430: This paper is nominally about the relationship between Symantec and Microsoft,
431: talking about a white paper released by the former.
432: But it's quite revealing about Microsoft itself.
433: "Even Microsoft... now acknowledges that UAC (User Account Control) -
434: Vista's most [high-]profile security feature - is vulnerable to subversion,
435: particularly through social-engineering tactics."
436: And while the Symantec report says some good things about Vista security,
437: "its criticisms are brutal - for their clarity and foreboding:
438: <blockquote>
439: "Many of the technologies that Microsoft has employed to bolster
440: the security of Windows Vista are not new. In fact, most are
441: derived from the groundwork originally laid by open-source
442: operating systems such as Linux and OpenBSD, the PaX and
443: Stackguard projects, as well as numerous academic publications....
444: The majority of these technologies first appeared in Windows
445: XP SP2 [Service Pack 2]. Windows XP SP2, at the time of its
446: release, was also billed as the most secure version of Windows."
447: </blockquote>
448: So remember, folks, if it's about security, you may well have heard it
449: here first, long before Microsoft "invented" it.
450: <p>
451:
452:
453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.557 reyk 454: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85495">
1.600 bentley 455: OpenBSD und Linux: Kritik an Stillhalteabkommen für Treiberentwicklung</a>, heise online, February 2, 2007
1.557 reyk 456: </strong></font><br>
457:
458: Short article about OpenBSD's clear statement against device driver
459: development under non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
460: It attempts to summarize the reaction of the OpenBSD community against the
461: <a href="http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html">"Free Linux Driver Development"</a>
462: under NDA offered by the linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman which previously raised some
463: discussion.
464: Code written under NDA will make it difficult to improve it in the future
465: because somebody signed an agreement to keep the required hardware
466: documentation secret. For the OpenBSD project
1.608 ! tb 467: <a href="goals.html">NDAs are never acceptable</a>.
1.557 reyk 468: <p>
469:
470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.556 matthieu 471: [FRENCH]
472: <a href="http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?produit=462">GNU/Linux
473: Magazine France</a> special issue number 29
474: </strong></font>
475: is dedicated to BSD systems. It features several articles about
476: OpenBSD: a pf tutorial, an article on IPSec and two articles on
477: high-availability with pf and CARP and with dynamic routing protocols
478: using OpenOSPFd and OpenBGPd.
479: <p>
480:
481: </ul>
482:
1.558 ian 483: <h2>January, 2007</h2>
484: <ul>
485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
486: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html">
487: Greylisting with PF</a>, O'Reilly onLAMP, January 18, 2007
488: </strong></font><br>
489: This onLAMP article by Dan Langille leads you through the process of
1.559 ian 490: setting up greylisting using OpenBSD's pf and spamd, which has now been ported
1.558 ian 491: to most other BSD systems. The article is
492: quite detailed, but readers should ignore the FreeBSD-specific stuff
493: like kldload (OpenBSD uses modload, but, OpenBSD always has pf built-in
494: so you don't need this). Parts of the article are based on Bob Beck's
495: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/speakers#Beck">spamd talk at NYCBSDCon</a>.
496: <p>
497:
498: </ul>
499:
1.550 mbalmer 500: <h2>December, 2006</h2>
501: <ul>
502:
503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.554 reyk 504: [GERMAN]
505: <a href="http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=15206">
506: 23C3: Interview mit Henning und Reyk von OpenBSD</a>,
507: Radio Unerhört Marbug, December 29, 2006
508: </strong></font><br>
509: Interview with Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter about OpenBSD and
510: the latest changes since 4.0 during the 23rd Chaos Communications
511: Congress in Berlin.
512: <p>
513:
514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.552 ian 515: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/01OPsecadvise_1.html">
1.553 ian 516: New Year's Resolution No. 1: Get OpenBSD</a>,
1.552 ian 517: InfoWorld, December 29, 2006
518: </strong></font><br>
519: InfoWorld's Security Advisor columnist Roger A. Grimes says:
520: "Kick off 2007 with a new, more secure operating system."
521: Citing OpenBSD's code-auditing security process and its
522: excellent security record, Grimes advises readers to give the system a try.
523: Despite repeating some old canards about the "unfriendly" install, he
524: notes favorably that
525: "OpenBSD is shipped secure-by-default, with all non-essential services disabled.
526: You won't find NFS, mountd, or Apache [httpd] enabled by default.
527: The /bin and /sbin folders will be emptier than other Linux or BSD distros.
528: Install OpenBSD and you can be assured that it doesn't default to an insecure state."
529: <p>
530:
531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.551 xsa 532: [GERMAN]
1.550 mbalmer 533: <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2007/01/074/">
534: OpenBSD 4.0 - Kanadische Eröffnung</a>
535: iX magazine, December 14, 2006
536: </strong></font><br>
1.570 simon 537: The German IT magazine iX reviews the 4.0 release of OpenBSD and also mentions
1.550 mbalmer 538: why we don't support blobs and why this is beneficial to our users.
539: The article gives OpenBSD a very good rating for being strictly free software,
540: its swift installation, the support for upgrades, and the large number of
541: platforms and architectures it runs on.
542: <p>
543:
544: </ul>
545:
1.546 ian 546: <h2>November, 2006</h2>
547: <ul>
548:
1.549 ian 549: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
1.582 grunk 550: <a href='http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061110204834'>
1.549 ian 551: Official support for OpenBSD in Parallels Workstation</a>
552: undeadly.org, November 10, 2006
553: </strong></font><br>
554: OpenBSD is now supported by Parallels, a commercial OS
555: virtualization product for Mac OS X, Linux or MS-Windows.
556: In addition to allowing users to run both OpenBSD and one of those other
557: systems concurrently, the announcement means that developers with Intel Mac
558: hardware can run multiple test systems; the Undeadly Editor adds:
559: "I've had up to six OpenBSD guest systems operating simultaneously,
560: versions 3.8 through 4.0 (and -current)."
561: This also reinforces the increasing commercial acceptance of our favorite OS.
562: <p>
563:
564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
565: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/bsdtalk082-openbsd-developer-jason.html">
566: Interview with Jason Wright</a>, BSDTalk 82, November 8, 2006
567: </strong></font><br>
568: Jason talks about the OpenBSD development process (particularly for device drivers
569: and getting hardware documentation from vendors), Sun SPARC hardware (particularly
570: the Ultra III), ham radio (APRS) with OpenBSD, and more.
571: <p>
572:
573: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
574: <a href='http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132572.html'>
575: OpenBSD turns 4.0</a>
576: CNET News.com, November 3, 2006
577: </strong></font><br>
578: Stephen Shankland talks about the UltraSPARC III code in 4.0, and notes that
579: OpenBSD has chosen to stay with stable GCC versions rather than moving to
580: the latest and most bloated GCC versions like Linux did.
581: Quotes Theo as saying: OpenBSD doesn't aim for particular niches,
582: but it's popular in network applications... "The biggest
583: users of OpenBSD these days are people who need our fancy networking
584: features..."
585: <p>
586:
1.546 ian 587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
588: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/55/">
589: OpenBSD 4.0 Review</a>, Software In Review, November 1, 2006
590: </strong></font><br>
591: "In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed
592: back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are
593: almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or
594: months, it's nice to know that at least one operating system releases
595: on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems.
596: OpenBSD 4.0 was released on November 1 with its usual mix of new
597: hardware support and enhanced operating system features."
598: So opens Jem Matzam's review of the new 4.0 release.
599: Jem gives a brief overview of the project, discusses
600: several of the most important new features, evaluates
601: his installation and use of the system on a desktop and a notebook.
1.548 saad 602: He also offers a few recommendations for future developments to make
1.546 ian 603: the project even better.
604: There's even a link to the Wikipedia article on
605: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa">
606: Humppa</a>, for those who may have heard this term but not
607: the music behind it.
608: <p>
609:
1.547 ian 610: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
611: <a href='http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1243'>
612: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today</a>
613: Tectonic, November 1, 2006
614: </strong></font><br>
615: "With his characteristic no-frills approach OpenBSD team leader
616: Theo de Raadt this morning announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0."
617: This article lists the highlights of the 4.0 release and
618: tells readers where to order CD's or download the release.
619: Quotes Theo: ""We are pleased to announce the official release of
620: OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-Rom (and 21st via FTP).
621: We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single
622: remote hole in the default install,"
623: <p>
624:
625: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
626: <a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8123.html'>
627: OpenBSD 4.0 released</a>
628: Ars Technica, November 1, 2006
629: </strong></font><br>
630: A short note about the 4.0 release; refers to the O'ReillyNet article below.
631: <p>
632:
1.546 ian 633: </ul>
634:
1.539 ian 635: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
636: <ul>
1.540 ian 637:
638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.546 ian 639: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6769">
640: OpenBSD 4.0: Pufferix's Adventures</a>, O'Reilly Network, October 26, 2006
641: </strong></font><br>
642: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a dozen and a half developers and compiled
643: the results into this report, all while listening to the obligatory Humppa.
1.548 saad 644: Topics include the new blob-free wireless drivers, pf and pf/dhcp interaction,
1.546 ian 645: CARP demotion, ipsecctl replacing ipsecadm, hardware support for disk/bioctl,
646: USB serial, new installation customization features, ports/packages, RCS, X,
647: CPU support for Sparc/64, AMD/Intel "speed step" techniques, and more.
648: <p>
649:
650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 mbalmer 651: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
652: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
653: </strong></font><br>
654: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
655: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
656: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
657: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
658: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
659: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
660: for his many customers.
661: <p>
662:
663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.544 ian 664: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/olpc-under-fire-for-proprietary-components/">
665: OLPC under fire for proprietary components</a>, Engadget, October 11, 2006
666: </strong></font><br>
667: Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy
668: from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists.
669: Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments:
670: "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children
671: need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented
672: hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to
673: convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about
674: the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you
675: also do."
676: The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside
677: seats already."
678: <p>
679:
680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
681: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/">
682: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row</a>,
683: The Jem Report, October 9, 2006
684: </strong></font><br>
685: Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with
686: Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt.
687: Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in
688: getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware
689: so that users can use hardware they have paid for.
690: Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of
691: the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection,
692: I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts."
693: And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all:
694: "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open;
695: they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd
696: code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end.
697: Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that
698: no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..."
699: <p>
700:
701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.582 grunk 702: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
1.541 ian 703: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
704: </strong></font><br>
705: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
706: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
707: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
708: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
709: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
710: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
711: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 712: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 713: <p>
714:
715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 716: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
717: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
718: </strong></font><br>
719: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
720: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
721: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
1.582 grunk 722: <br>
1.540 ian 723: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
724: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
725: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
726: overflows and vulnerabilities."
1.582 grunk 727: <br>
1.540 ian 728: And, Grimes generalizes,
729: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
730: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
731: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
732: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
733: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
734: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
735: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
736: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
737: happened."
738: Worth reading!
739: <p>
740:
1.539 ian 741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
742: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
743: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
744: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
745: </strong></font><br>
746: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
747: redistributable firmware from Intel.
748: <p>
749:
750: </ul>
751:
1.536 grunk 752: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
753: <ul>
754:
755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 756: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
757: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
758: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
759: </strong></font><br>
760: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
761: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
762: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
763: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
764: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
765: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
766: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
767: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
768: for ages over these chipsets.
769: Quotes Theo as saying:
770: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
771: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
772: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
773: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
774: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
775: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
776: <p>
777:
778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
779: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
780: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
781: </strong></font><br>
782: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
783: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
784: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
785: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
786: <p>
787:
788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 789: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
790: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
791: </strong></font><br>
792: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
793: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
794: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
795: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
796: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
797: <p>
798:
1.537 ian 799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.582 grunk 800: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
1.537 ian 801: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
802: </strong></font><br>
803: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
804: (the official release date is November 1).
805: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
806: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
807: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
808: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
809: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.608 ! tb 810: <a href="orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 811: <p>
812:
1.536 grunk 813: </ul>
814:
1.534 ian 815: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
816: <ul>
817:
818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 819: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
820: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
821: </strong></font><br>
822: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
823: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
824: as a guest operating system under
825: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
826: or "virtualization" system.
827: <p>
828:
829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 830: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
831: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
832: </strong></font><br>
833: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
834: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
835: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
836: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
837: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
838: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
839: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
840: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
841: <p>
842:
843: </ul>
844:
1.531 ian 845: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
846: <ul>
847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
848: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
849: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
850: </strong></font><br>
851: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
852: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
853: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
854: The article quotes Theo as saying
855: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
856: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
857: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
858: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
859: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
860: and describes the funding issues as well.
861: <p>
862:
863: </ul>
864:
1.525 ian 865: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
866: <ul>
867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 868: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 869: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
870: </strong></font><br>
871: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
872: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
873: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
874: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
875: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
876: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
877: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
878: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
879: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
880: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
881: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
882: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
883: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
884: <p>
885:
886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 887: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 888: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
889: </strong></font><br>
890: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
891: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
892: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
893: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
894: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
895: <p>
896:
1.526 ian 897: </ul>
1.525 ian 898:
1.514 ian 899: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
900: <ul>
1.524 ian 901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
902: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
903: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
904: </strong></font><br>
905: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
906: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
907: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
908: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
909: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
910: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
911: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
912: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
913: to make them useful.
914: <p>
1.518 ian 915:
916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 917: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 918: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
919: and
920: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 921: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 922: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 923: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 924: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 925: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
926: their plans for the week.
927: <p>
928:
929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 930: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
931: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
932: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
933: </strong></font><br>
934: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
935: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
936: <p>
937:
938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 939: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
940: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
941: </strong></font><br>
942: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
943: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
944: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
945: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 946: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 947: (introduced with 3.9).
948: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
949: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
950: <p>
951:
952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 953: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
954: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
955: </strong></font><br>
956: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
957: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
958: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
959: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
960: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
961: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
962: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
963: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
964: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
965: <p>
966:
967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
968: [GERMAN]
969: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
970: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
971: </strong></font><br>
972: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
1.580 tobias 973: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peereboom's
1.535 steven 974: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 975: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
976: is connected to OpenBSD.
977: <p>
978:
1.514 ian 979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
980: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
981: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
982: </strong></font><br>
983: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
984: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
985: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 986: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 987: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 988: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 989: running this project) is so important to Theo,
990: and even why he does mountain biking!
991: <p>
992:
993: </ul>
994:
1.503 ian 995: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
996: <ul>
997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 998: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
999: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
1000: </strong></font><br>
1001: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
1002: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
1003: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
1004: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
1005: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
1006: <blockquote>
1007: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
1008: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
1009: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
1010: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
1011: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
1012: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
1013: </blockquote>
1014: This is just plain cool."
1015: <p>
1016:
1017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 1018: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
1019: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
1020: </strong></font><br>
1021: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
1022: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
1023: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 1024: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 1025: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
1026: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
1027: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
1028: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
1029: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
1030: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 1031: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 1032: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
1033: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
1034: <p>
1035:
1036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 1037: [GERMAN]
1038: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
1039: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
1040: </strong></font><br>
1041: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
1042: are and why they are bad.
1043: <p>
1044:
1045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 1046: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
1047: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
1048: </strong></font><br>
1049: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
1050: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
1051: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
1052: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
1053: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
1054: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
1055: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
1056: pages."
1057: <p>
1058:
1059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 1060: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
1061: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
1062: </strong></font><br>
1063: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
1064: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
1065: and continues:
1066: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
1067: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
1068: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
1069: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
1070: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
1071: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
1072: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
1073: and more. Final thought:
1074: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
1075: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
1076: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
1077: true for business environments."
1078: <p>
1079:
1080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 1081: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 1082: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.600 bentley 1083: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1084: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.509 djm 1085: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
1086: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 1087: for funding.
1.509 djm 1088: <p>
1089:
1090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 1091: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
1092: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
1093: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
1094: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
1095: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
1096: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
1097: <p>
1098:
1099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 1100: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
1101: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
1102: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
1103: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
1104: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
1105: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
1106: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
1107: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
1108: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
1109: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
1.582 grunk 1110: <br>
1.529 ian 1111: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 1112: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 1113: hostsearch.com</a> and
1114: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
1115: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 1116: <p>
1117:
1118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 1119: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
1120: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
1121: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
1122: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 1123: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 1124: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 1125: is punctuated with examples.
1126: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.605 sthen 1127: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
1128: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 1129: and
1.605 sthen 1130: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 1131: <p>
1132:
1133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 1134: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
1.600 bentley 1135: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
1.503 ian 1136: </strong></font><br>
1137: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
1138: further OpenSSH development.
1139: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
1140: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
1141: project's funding needs for all time.
1142: <p>
1.504 bernd 1143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1144: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
1145: April 3, 2006
1146: </strong></font><br>
1147: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
1148: this could compromise future hackathons.
1149: <p>
1.503 ian 1150:
1151: </ul>
1152:
1.487 ian 1153: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
1154: <ul>
1.495 ian 1155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 1156: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 1157: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 1158: </strong></font><br>
1159: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
1160: on topics including "Puffy",
1161: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
1162: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
1163: what's new in 3.9,
1164: and of course project expenses.
1165: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
1166: <!--
1167: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
1168: -->
1169: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
1170: <p>
1171:
1172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 1173: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
1174: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
1175: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 1176: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
1177: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 1178: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
1179: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
1180: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
1181: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
1182: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
1183: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
1184: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
1185: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
1186: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
1187: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
1188: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
1189: but Matzan does - is that
1190: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
1191: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
1192: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
1193: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
1.582 grunk 1194: <br>
1.498 ian 1195: <p>
1196:
1197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1198: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
1199: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
1200: </strong></font><br>
1201: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
1202: "blob" drivers, and more.
1203: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
1204: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
1205: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
1206: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
1207: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
1208: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
1209: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
1210: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
1211: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
1212: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
1213: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
1214: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
1215: <p>
1216:
1217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 1218: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
1219: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
1220: </strong></font><br>
1221: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
1222: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
1223: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
1224: in general temperature and environmental issues.
1225: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
1226: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
1227: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
1228: other major operating systems." ...
1229: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
1230: machines running in
1231: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
1232: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
1233: <p>
1234:
1235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1236: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
1237: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
1238: </strong></font><br>
1239: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
1240: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
1241: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
1242: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
1243: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
1244: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
1245: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
1246: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
1247: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
1248: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
1249: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
1250: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
1251: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
1252: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
1253: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
1254: <p>
1255:
1.487 ian 1256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 1257: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
1258: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
1259: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 1260: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 1261: financial situation.
1262: <p>
1263:
1264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 1265: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
1266: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
1267: </strong></font><br>
1268: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
1269: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
1270: produce our favorite operating system.
1271: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
1272: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
1273: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
1274: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
1275: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.582 grunk 1276: <br>
1.496 ian 1277: Also online at
1278: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
1279: <p>
1280:
1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1282: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
1283: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
1284: </strong></font><br>
1285: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
1286: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
1287: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
1288: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
1289: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
1290: sustain indefinitely."
1291: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
1292: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
1293: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
1294: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
1295: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 1296: <p>
1297:
1298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 1299: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
1300: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
1301: </strong></font><br>
1302: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
1303: with a reminder that
1304: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
1305: used nowadays almost everywhere."
1306: Ends with this quote from Marco:
1307: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
1308: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
1309: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
1310: <p>
1311:
1312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 1313: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 1314: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
1315: </strong></font><br>
1316: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
1317: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
1318: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
1319: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
1320: a few of them each year.
1321: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
1322: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
1323: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
1324: to the OpenBSD project.
1325: It's time for them to do so.
1326: <p>
1327:
1328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 1329: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
1330: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
1331: </strong></font><br>
1332: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
1333: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
1334: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
1335: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
1336: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
1337: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
1338: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
1339: <p>
1340:
1341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 1342: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
1343: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 1344: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
1345: <!-- North America mirror:
1346: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 1347: -->
1.490 deraadt 1348: European mirror:
1349: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
1350: <br>
1351: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 1352: <p>
1353:
1354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 1355: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
1356: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1357: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 1358: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
1359: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
1360: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
1361: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
1362: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
1363: designed to provide reliability and security.
1364: <p>
1365:
1366: </ul>
1367:
1.485 ian 1368: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
1369: <ul>
1370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 1371: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
1372: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1373: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 1374: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 1375: installations in about four minutes flat".
1376: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
1377: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 1378: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 1379: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
1380: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
1381: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
1382: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
1383: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
1384: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
1385: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
1386: the steps in the article.
1387: <p>
1388:
1389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 1390: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
1391: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
1392: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
1393: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
1394: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
1395: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
1396: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
1397: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
1398: happening in real life.
1399: <p>
1400:
1401: </ul>
1402:
1.492 ian 1403: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
1404: <ul>
1405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1406: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
1407: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1408: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
1409: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
1410: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
1411: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 1412: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 1413: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
1414: </ul>
1415:
1.483 ian 1416: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
1417: <ul>
1.555 reyk 1418:
1.483 ian 1419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.555 reyk 1420: [GERMAN]
1421: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/articles/openbsd/064-069_linux-bsd-fw.pdf">
1422: Wehrhaft abtauchen - HA-fähige Firewall mit OpenBSD/PF</a>, Linux-Magazin, December 2005
1423: </strong></font><br>
1424: High available firewall setups are considered as the high arts of network protection.
1425: Due to clustering the network stays online even if one firewall fails. This article
1426: from Stephan A. Rickauer (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University Zurich) shows
1427: how well OpenBSD/PF performs in comparison to the well-known duo Linux/Netfilter.
1428: <p>
1429:
1430: </p></li><li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 1431: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
1432: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1433: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
1434: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
1435: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
1436: <p>
1437:
1438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1439: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 1440: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
1441: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
1442: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
1443: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
1444: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
1445: to sites with more information on most topics.
1446: <p>
1447:
1448: </ul>
1449:
1450:
1.479 grunk 1451: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
1452: <ul>
1453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1454: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 1455: Goes to Venice</a>,
1456: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1457: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 1458: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
1.582 grunk 1459: <br>
1.482 ian 1460: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
1461: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
1462: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 1463: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 1464: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
1465: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
1466: Contains a link to
1.608 ! tb 1467: <a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
1.482 ian 1468: pval's summary slides</a>.
1469: <p>
1470:
1471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 1472: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
1473: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
1474: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
1475: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
1476: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
1477: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
1478: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
1479: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 1480: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 1481: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
1482: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
1483: the packages and ports system"</i>.
1484: <p>
1485:
1486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1487: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
1488: Return of The BSDs</a>,
1489: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1490: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
1491: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
1492: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
1493: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
1494: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
1495: quotes from Bob Beck.
1496: <p>
1497:
1498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 1499: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
1500: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
1501: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 1502: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
1503: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 1504: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
1505: and Linux.<br>
1506: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
1507: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
1508: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
1509: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
1510: of the release
1511: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
1512: <p>
1513: </ul>
1514:
1.476 ian 1515: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
1516: <ul>
1517:
1518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1519: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
1520: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
1521: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
1522: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
1523: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
1524: and too unreliable.
1525: This quote will rattle some cages:
1526: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
1527: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
1528: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
1529: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
1530: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
1531: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
1532: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
1533: costs without any commercial lock-in."
1534: <p>
1535:
1.477 saad 1536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1537: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
1538: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
1539: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1540: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1541: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
1542: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
1543: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
1544: discussion about future plans.
1545: <p>
1546:
1.478 grunk 1547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1548: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
1549: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
1550: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
1551: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
1552: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
1553: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
1554: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
1555: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
1556: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
1557: <p>
1558:
1.476 ian 1559: </ul>
1560:
1.470 saad 1561: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
1562: <ul>
1563:
1564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 1565: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
1566: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
1567: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1568: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
1569: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
1570: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
1571: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
1572: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
1573: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
1574: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
1575: <p>
1576:
1577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 1578: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
1579: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
1580: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
1581: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
1582: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
1583: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
1584: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
1585: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
1586: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
1587: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
1588: <p>
1589:
1590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1591: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
1592: Big debate over small packets</a>,
1593: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
1594: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
1595: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
1596: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
1597: draft.
1598: <p>
1599:
1600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 1601: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
1602: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
1603: ordinateur ?"</a>,
1604: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
1605: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
1606: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
1607: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
1608: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
1609: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
1610: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
1611: <p>
1612:
1613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 1614: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
1615: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
1616: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
1617: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
1618: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
1619: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
1620: performance data with pfstat.
1621: <p>
1622:
1623: </ul>
1624:
1.461 grunk 1625: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
1626: <ul>
1627:
1628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 1629: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
1630: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 1631: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 1632: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
1633: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
1634: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 1635: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 1636: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 1637: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
1638: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
1639: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 1640: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
1641: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 1642: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 1643: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
1644: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 1645: <p>
1646:
1647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 1648: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
1649: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1650: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 1651: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
1652: poor security:
1.467 grunk 1653: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 1654: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 1655: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 1656: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
1657: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
1658: <p>
1659:
1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 1661: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
1662: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1663: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 1664: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
1665: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 1666: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
1667: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
1668: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
1669: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
1670: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
1671: commercial vendors.
1672: <p>
1673:
1674: </ul>
1675:
1.454 ian 1676: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
1677: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1678:
1679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1680: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1681: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1682: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1683: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1684: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1685: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1686: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1687: <br>
1688: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1689: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1690: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1691: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1692: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1693: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1694: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1695: <p>
1696:
1.454 ian 1697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1698: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1699: Free Bird</a>,
1700: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1701: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1702: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1703: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1704: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1705: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1706: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1707: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1708: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1709: room will only be available in the print edition.
1710: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1711:
1.458 niallo 1712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1713: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1714: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1715: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1716: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1717: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1718: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1719: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1720: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1721: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1722:
1.456 niallo 1723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1724: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1725: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1726: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1727: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1728: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1729: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1730: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1731: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1732: interview.</a>
1733: <p>
1734:
1735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1736: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1737: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1738: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1739: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1740: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1741: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1742: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1743: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1744: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1745: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1746: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1747: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1748: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1749: "I have never used it."
1750: <p>
1751:
1752: </ul>
1753:
1.441 deraadt 1754: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1755: <ul>
1756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1757: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1758: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1759: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1760: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1761: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1762: future enhancements.
1763: <p>
1764:
1765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1766: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1767: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1768: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1769: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1770: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1771: North America mirror:
1772: <ul>
1.452 marco 1773: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1774: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1775: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1776: </ul>
1777: European mirror:
1778: <ul>
1.452 marco 1779: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1780: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1781: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1782: </ul>
1783: <p>
1784:
1785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1786: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1787: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1788: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1789: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1790: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1791: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1792: <p>
1793:
1794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1795: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1796: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1797: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1798: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1799: first-hand account.
1800: <p>
1801:
1802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1803: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1804: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1805: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1806: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1807: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1808: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1809: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1810: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1811: <p>
1812:
1813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1814: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1815: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1816: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1817: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1818: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1819: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1820: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1821: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1822: <p>
1823:
1824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1825: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1826: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1827: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1828: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1829: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1830: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1831: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1832: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1833: <p>
1834:
1835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1836: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1837: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1838: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1839: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1840: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1841: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1842: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1843: <p>
1844:
1845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1846: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1847: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1848: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1849: </strong></font><br>
1850: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1851: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1852: with OpenBSD.
1853: </ul>
1854:
1.436 henning 1855: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1856: <ul>
1857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1858: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1859: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1860: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1861: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1862: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1863: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1864: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1865: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1866: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1867: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1868: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1869: <p>
1870: This article can also be found online as
1871: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1872: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1873: <p>
1874:
1875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1876: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1877: </strong></font><br>
1878: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1.600 bentley 1879: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
1.439 espie 1880: <p>
1881:
1882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1883: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1884: </strong></font><br>
1885: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1886: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1887: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1888: the issues we had with IETF.
1889: </ul>
1890:
1.431 ian 1891: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1892: <ul>
1893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1894: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1895: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1896: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1897: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1898: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1899: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1900: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1901: <p>
1902:
1903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1904: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1905: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1906: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1907: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1908: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1909: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1910: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1911: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1912: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1913: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1914: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1915: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1916: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1917: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1918: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1919:
1920: </ul>
1921:
1.427 matthieu 1922: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1923: <ul>
1924:
1925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1926: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1927: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1928: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1929: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1930: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1931: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1932: firmware.
1.434 ian 1933: Similar articles can be found online at:
1934: <ul>
1935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1936: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1937: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1938: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1940: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1941: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1942: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1944: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1945: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1946: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1948: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1949: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1950: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1951: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1952: </ul>
1953:
1.426 ian 1954: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1955: <ul>
1956:
1957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1958: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1959: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1960: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1961: This article talks about our systrace
1.605 sthen 1962: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1963: mechanism: what it is and why and
1964: how to use it, with examples.
1965: Another excerpt from the book
1.588 deraadt 1966: "Secure Architectures with OpenBSD" by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1.426 ian 1967: <p>
1968:
1969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1970: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1971: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1972: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1973: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1974: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1975: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1976: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1977: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1978: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1979: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1980: This article is a sample chapter from
1.588 deraadt 1981: "Secure Architectures with OpenBSD" by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1.426 ian 1982: <p>
1.443 ian 1983:
1984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1985: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1986: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1987: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1988: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1989: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1990: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1991: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1992: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1993: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1994: ends with a sidebar on security.
1995: <p>
1.426 ian 1996: </ul>
1997:
1.424 ian 1998: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1999: <ul>
2000:
2001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 2002: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
2003: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
2004: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
2005: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
2006: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
2007: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
2008: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
2009: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
2010: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
2011: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
2012: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
2013: <p>
2014: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
2015: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
2016: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
2017: <p>
2018:
2019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 2020: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
2021: Closed Source Hardware</a>
2022: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
2023: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
2024: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
2025: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
2026: operating systems.
2027: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
2028: OpenBSD on his firewall.
2029: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
2030: systems, he writes:
2031: <blockquote>
2032: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
2033: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
2034: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
2035: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
2036: to the operating system...
1.582 grunk 2037: <br>
1.424 ian 2038: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
2039: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
2040: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
2041: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
2042: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
2043: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
2044: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
2045: in a closed source operating system).
1.606 tb 2046: <br>
1.424 ian 2047: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
2048: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
2049: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
2050: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
2051: </blockquote>
2052: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
2053: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
2054: their hardware and software operates.
2055: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
2056: reverse-engineering the
1.605 sthen 2057: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 2058: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
2059: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
2060: <p>
2061: </ul>
2062:
1.417 pvalchev 2063: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
2064: <ul>
1.421 ian 2065:
1.417 pvalchev 2066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 2067: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
2068: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
2069: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
2070: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
2071: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
2072: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
2073: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
2074: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
2075: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
2076: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
2077: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 2078: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 2079: <p>
2080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 2081: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
2082: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
2083: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
2084: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
2085: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
2086: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
2087: it claims to do".
2088: <p>
2089:
2090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 2091: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 2092: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
2093: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
2094: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
2095: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 2096: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 2097: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
2098: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
2099: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
2100: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
2101: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
2102: (yes, this is a hint).
2103: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
2104: picked up on the
2105: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
2106: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 2107: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 2108: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
2109: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
2110: <p>
2111:
2112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 2113: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
2114: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
2115: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
2116: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
2117: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
2118: questions about the significance and rationale behind
2119: the current efforts.
2120: <p>
2121: </ul>
2122:
1.407 henning 2123: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
2124: <ul>
2125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 2126: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
2127: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
2128: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
2129: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
2130: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
2131: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
2132: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
2133: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
2134: <p>
2135:
2136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 2137: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
2138: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
2139: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2140: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
2141: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
2142: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
2143: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
2144: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
2145: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 2146: <p>
1.415 ian 2147:
2148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2149: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 2150: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
2151: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
2152: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
2153: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
2154: overflow attacks... because
2155: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
2156: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
2157: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
2158: and propolice.
2159: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
2160: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
2161: and that's when the science falls apart."
2162: <p>
2163:
2164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 2165: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
2166: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
2167: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
2168: Starts with the question:
2169: <blockquote>
2170: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1.606 tb 2171: <br>
1.412 ian 2172: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
2173: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1.606 tb 2174: <br>
1.412 ian 2175: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
2176: Should we believe them?"
2177: </blockquote>
2178: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
2179: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
2180: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
2181: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
2182: for your mail, web and other online activities.
2183: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
2184: <p>
2185:
2186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 2187: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
2188: Simple Simon</a>,
2189: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
2190: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
2191: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
2192: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
2193: routing/firewall, and more.
2194: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
2195: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
2196: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
2197: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
2198: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
2199: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
2200: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
2201: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
2202: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
2203: </blockquote>
2204: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
2205: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
2206: <p>
2207:
2208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 2209: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
2210: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 2211: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 2212: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 2213: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
2214: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
2215: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 2216: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 2217: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
2218: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
2219: in spite of it
2220: (registration required, but worth it).
2221: <p>
2222:
2223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2224: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
2225: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
2226: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
2227: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
2228: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
2229: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1.588 deraadt 2230: "The Power of Many",
1.408 nick 2231: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
2232: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
2233: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
2234: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
2235: <p>
2236:
2237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 2238: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
2239: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
2240: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
2241: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
2242: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
2243: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
2244: <blockquote>
2245: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
2246: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
2247: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
2248: a lot of analysis.
2249: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
2250: </blockquote>
2251: <p>
2252: </ul>
2253:
1.400 marco 2254: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
2255: <ul>
2256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 2257: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
2258: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
2259: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
2260: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
2261: UNIX-like systems.
2262: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
2263: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
2264: <p>
2265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 2266: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
2267: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 2268: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2269: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
2270: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
2271: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
2272: At one point, the article states:
2273: <blockquote>
2274: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
2275: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
2276: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
2277: </blockquote>
2278: And then quotes Theo as saying:
2279: <blockquote>
2280: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
2281: fewer are reading or auditing code."
2282: </blockquote>
2283: <p>
2284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2285: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
2286: marks its fifth birthday</a>
2287: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2288: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
2289: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
2290: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
2291: required).
2292: <p>
2293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 2294: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
2295: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
2296: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
2297: </strong></font><br>
2298: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
2299: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
2300: <p>
2301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 2302: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
2303: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 2304: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 2305: </strong></font><br>
2306: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
2307: <p>
2308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 2309: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
2310: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 2311: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 2312: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 2313: 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 2314: <p>
2315: </ul>
2316:
1.396 henning 2317: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
2318: <ul>
2319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 2320: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
2321: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
2322: Unix Review, July, 2004
2323: </strong></font><br>
2324: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
2325: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 2326: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 2327: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
2328: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
2329: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
2330: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
2331: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
2332: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
2333: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
2334: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
2335: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
2336: and even spelling/wording errors.
2337: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
2338: <p>
2339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2340: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 2341: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
2342: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
2343: </strong></font><br>
2344: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
2345: <p>
2346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2347: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 2348: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
2349: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
2350: </strong></font><br>
2351: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
2352: <p>
2353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 2354: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
2355: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
2356: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
2357: </strong></font><br>
2358: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
2359: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
2360: <p>
2361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.595 schwarze 2362: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/press/archiv/pis/20040630.html">
2363: genua moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
2364: German security company genua moves its firewall product line
2365: "genugate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1.396 henning 2366: <p>
2367: </ul>
2368:
1.405 jolan 2369: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
2370: <ul>
1.545 tom 2371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2372: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 2373: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 2374: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
2375: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
2376: details on how funds are dispersed.
2377: <p>
2378: </ul>
2379:
1.393 david 2380: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
2381: <ul>
2382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 2383: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
2384: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
2385: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
2386: </strong></font><br>
2387: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
2388: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
2389: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
2390: on inserting large number of SQL records.
2391: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
2392: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
2393: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
2394: <p>
2395:
2396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2397: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
2398: Secure by Default</a>,
2399: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
2400: </strong></font><br>
2401: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
2402: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
2403: <p>
2404:
2405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2406: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
2407: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
2408: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
2409: </strong></font><br>
2410: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
2411: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
2412: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
2413: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
2414: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
2415: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
2416: <p>
2417:
2418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2419: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
2420: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
2421: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
2422: </strong></font><br>
2423: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
2424: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
2425: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
2426: <p>
2427:
2428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2429: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
2430: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
2431: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
2432: </strong></font><br>
2433: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
2434: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
2435: <p>
2436: </ul>
2437:
1.388 mcbride 2438: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
2439: <ul>
1.394 jolan 2440:
2441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2442: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
2443: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
2444: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
2445: </strong></font><br>
2446: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
2447: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
2448: available for sparc64.
2449: <p>
2450:
1.390 beck 2451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2452: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
2453: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
2454: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
2455: </strong></font><br>
2456: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
2457: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
2458: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
2459: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
2460: <p>
2461:
2462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 2463: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
2464: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 2465: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 2466: </strong></font><br>
2467: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
2468: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
2469: it does: CARP provides sharing
2470: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
2471: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
2472: detail to get you started using it.
2473: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
2474: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
2475: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
2476: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
2477: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
2478: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
2479: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 2480: <p>
1.391 ian 2481:
2482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 2483: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 2484: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
2485: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 2486: </strong></font><br>
2487: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 2488: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 2489: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 2490: <p>
1.388 mcbride 2491:
2492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2493: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
2494: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 2495: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 2496: </strong></font><br>
2497: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
2498: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
2499: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
2500: unencumbered by patents.
2501: <p>
2502: </ul>
2503:
1.378 henning 2504: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
2505: <ul>
1.384 jose 2506:
2507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 2508: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
2509: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
2510: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
2511: </strong></font><br>
2512: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
2513: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
2514: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
2515: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
2516: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
2517: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
2518: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
2519: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
2520: in the page tables."
2521: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
2522: <p>
2523:
2524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2525: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
2526: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
2527: </strong></font><br>
2528: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
2529: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
2530: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
2531: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 2532: <p>
1.384 jose 2533:
1.378 henning 2534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2535: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
2536: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 2537: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
2538: </strong></font><br>
2539: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
2540: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
2541: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
2542: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
2543: (quote:
2544: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
2545: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 2546: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 2547: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
2548: the other developers for their work on the system.
2549: <p>
2550:
2551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2552: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
2553: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
2554: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 2555: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 2556: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
2557: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
2558: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
2559: too.
2560: <p>
2561:
2562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 2563: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
2564: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 2565: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 2566: OpenBSD source code using
2567: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
2568: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
2569: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
2570: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
2571: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
2572: <p>
2573: </ul>
2574:
1.374 jose 2575: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
2576: <ul>
2577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 2578: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 2579: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
2580: </strong></font><br>
2581: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
2582: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
2583: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
2584: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
2585: it."
2586: <p>
2587:
2588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 2589: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
2590: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
2591: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1.606 tb 2592: </strong></font><br>
1.374 jose 2593: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
2594: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
2595: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
2596: <p>
2597: </ul>
2598:
1.369 ian 2599: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
2600: <ul>
2601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2602: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
2603: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1.606 tb 2604: </strong></font><br>
1.384 jose 2605: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
2606: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
2607: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
2608: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
2609: <p>
2610:
2611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2612: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
2613: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
2614: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1.606 tb 2615: </strong></font><br>
1.371 jose 2616: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
2617: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
2618: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
2619: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
2620: form factor.
2621: <p>
2622:
2623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2624: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
2625: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
2626: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
2627: Features</a>,
2628: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1.606 tb 2629: </strong></font><br>
1.371 jose 2630: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
2631: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
2632: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
2633: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
2634: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
2635: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
2636: <p>
2637: This article can also be found online at:
2638: <ul>
2639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2640: <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 2641: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
2642: </strong></font>
2643: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2644: </ul>
2645: <p>
1.392 david 2646:
1.371 jose 2647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2648: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
2649: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 2650: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1.606 tb 2651: </strong></font><br>
1.371 jose 2652: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
2653: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
2654: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 2655: <p>
1.371 jose 2656:
2657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 2658: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 2659: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 2660: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.606 tb 2661: </strong></font><br>
1.369 ian 2662: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
2663: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
2664: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
2665: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
2666: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
2667: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
2668: and its history with OpenBSD.
2669: </ul>
2670:
1.567 kurt 2671: <h2>September, 2003</h2>
2672: <ul>
2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2674: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/rosenthal/rosenthal_html/">
2675: A Digital Preservation Network Appliance Based on OpenBSD</a>, BSDcon, September, 2003.
2676: </strong></font><br>
2677: David S. H. Rosenthal's paper on the design, implementation and deployment of the
2678: <a href="http://www.lockss.org">LOCKSS</a> network appliance based on OpenBSD.
2679: </ul>
2680:
1.368 henning 2681: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
2682: <ul>
2683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2684: [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 2685: </strong></font><br>
2686: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2687: </ul>
2688:
1.364 jose 2689: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2690: <ul>
2691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2692: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2693: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2694: UNIX Review,
2695: July, 2003.
2696: </strong></font><br>
2697: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2698: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2699: who want more information.
2700: <p>
2701:
2702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2703: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2704: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2705: Government Computer News,
2706: July 22, 2003.
2707: </strong></font><br>
2708: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2709: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2710: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2711: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2712: <p>
2713:
2714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2715: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2716: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2717: SANS Institute,
2718: July 22, 2003.
2719: </strong></font><br>
2720: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2721: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2722: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2723: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2724: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2725: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2726: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2727: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2728: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2729: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2730: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2731: <p>
2732:
2733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2734: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2735: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2736: OnLamp.com,
2737: July 17, 2003.
2738: </strong></font><br>
2739: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2740: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2741: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2742: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2743: have been working on.
2744:
2745: </ul>
2746:
1.356 jose 2747: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2748: <ul>
2749:
2750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2751: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2752: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2753: UNIX Review,
2754: June, 2003.
2755: </strong></font><br>
2756: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2757: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2758: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2759: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2760: <p>
2761:
2762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2763: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2764: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2765: eWeek,
2766: June 23, 2003.
2767: </strong></font><br>
2768: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2769: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2770: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2771: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2772: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2773: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2774: <p>
2775:
2776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2777: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2778: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2779: Software Development Online,
2780: June, 2003.
2781: </strong></font><br>
2782: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2783: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2784: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2785: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2786: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2787: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2788: current activities.
2789: <p>
2790:
2791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2792: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2793: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2794: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2795: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2796: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2797: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2798: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2799: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2800: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2801: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2802: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2803: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2804: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2805: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2806: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2807: decisions.
2808: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2809: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2810: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2811: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2812: <p>
2813:
2814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2815: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2816: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2817: Page 58, eWeek,
2818: June 2, 2003.
2819: </strong></font><br>
2820: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2821: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2822: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2823: been addressed in -current.
2824: <p>
2825:
1.356 jose 2826: </ul>
2827:
2828: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2829: <ul>
2830:
1.355 jose 2831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2832: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2833: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2834: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2835: </strong></font><br>
2836: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2837: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2838: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2839: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2840: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2841: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2842: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2843: <p>
2844:
2845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2846: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2847: Beyond Linux</a>,
2848: InfoWorld,
2849: May 23, 2003.
2850: </strong></font><br>
2851: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2852: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2853: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2854: compared to the GPL.
2855: <p>
2856:
2857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2858: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2859: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2860: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2861: May 17, 2003.
2862: </strong></font><br>
2863: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2864: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2865: the business section and half of another page inside
2866: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2867: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2868: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2869: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2870: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2871: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2872: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2873: <br>
2874: This article can also be found online at:
2875: <ul>
2876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2877: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2878: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2879: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2880: May 17, 2003
2881: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2882: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2884: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2885: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2886: Montreal Gazette,
2887: May 21, 2003
2888: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2889: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2890: <p>
1.346 ian 2891:
2892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2893: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2894: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2895: May 7, 2003.
2896: </strong></font><br>
2897: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2898: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2899: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2900: <p>
2901:
2902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2903: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2904: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2905: OsOpinion,
2906: May 6, 2003.
2907: </strong></font><br>
2908: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2909: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2910: <br>
2911: This article can also be found online at:
2912: <ul>
2913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2914: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2915: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2916: NewsFactor Network.
2917: </strong></font>
2918: </ul>
2919: <p>
2920:
2921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2922: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2923: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2924: ITBusiness,
2925: May 2, 2003.
2926: </strong></font><br>
2927: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2928: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2929: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2930: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2931: <p>
2932:
2933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2934: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2935: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2936: InfoWorld,
2937: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2938: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2939: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2940: <br>
2941: This article can also be found online at:
2942: <ul>
2943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2944: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2945: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2946: IDG Singapore.
2947: </strong></font>
2948: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2949: <p>
2950:
1.339 jose 2951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2952: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2953: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2954: ZDNet,
2955: May 1, 2003.
2956: </strong></font><br>
2957: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2958: someone using parts from previous articles.
2959: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2960: This article can also be found online at:
2961: <ul>
2962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2963: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2964: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2965: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2966: </strong></font>
2967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2968: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2969: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2970: CNET News.com.
2971: </strong></font>
2972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2973: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2974: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2975: ZDNet UK.
2976: </strong></font>
2977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2978: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2979: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2980: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2981: </strong></font>
2982: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2983: <p>
1.339 jose 2984:
1.341 deraadt 2985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 2986: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2987: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2988: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2989: May 1, 2003.
2990: </strong></font><br>
2991: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2992: that have been added
2993: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2994: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2995: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2996: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2997: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2998: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2999: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 3000: <p>
3001:
3002: </ul>
3003:
1.253 ian 3004: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
3005: <ul>
1.255 ian 3006:
1.260 ian 3007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 3008: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 3009: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
3010: TechRepublic,
3011: April 28, 2003.
3012: </strong></font><br>
3013: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
3014: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 3015: work.<br>
3016: Can also be found online at:
3017: <ul>
3018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3019: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
3020: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
3021: ZDNet UK.
3022: </strong></font>
3023: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 3024: <p>
3025:
3026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 3027: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
3028: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
3029: IDG,
3030: April 24, 2003.
3031: </strong></font><br>
3032: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
3033: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
3034: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
3035: Can also be found online at:
3036: <ul>
3037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3038: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
3039: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 3040: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 3041: </strong></font>
3042: </ul>
3043: <p>
3044:
3045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3046: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 3047: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 3048: Slate,
3049: April 24, 2003.
3050: </strong></font><br>
3051: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
3052: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
3053: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
3054: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
3055: <p>
3056:
3057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 3058: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
3059: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
3060: April 24, 2003.
3061: </strong></font><br>
3062: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1.606 tb 3063: <br>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1.325 ian 3064: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
3065: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
3066: <p>
3067:
3068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 3069: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
3070: April 24, 2003.
3071: </strong></font><br>
3072: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
3073: the free software community".
3074: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
3075: other articles.
3076: <p>
3077:
3078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 3079: <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 3080: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
3081: </strong></font><br>
3082: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
3083: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
3084: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
3085: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
3086: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
3087: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
3088: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 3089: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 3090: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1.606 tb 3091: <br>
1.324 ian 3092: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
3093: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
3094: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
3095: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 3096: <br>
3097: Can also be found online at:
3098: <ul>
3099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3100: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
3101: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
3102: Common Dreams NewsCenter
3103: </strong></font>
3104: </ul>
1.324 ian 3105: <p>
3106:
3107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3108: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
3109: Wired, April 24, 2003.
3110: </strong></font><br>
3111: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
3112: article above.
3113: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
3114: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
3115: wasting them."
1.332 ian 3116: <br>
3117: Can also be found online at:
3118: <ul>
3119: <li>
3120: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
3121: </strong></font>
3122: </ul>
1.324 ian 3123: <p>
3124:
3125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 3126: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
3127: </strong></font><br>
3128: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
3129: <p>
3130:
3131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 3132: <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.
3133: </strong></font><br>
3134: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
3135: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
3136: <p>
3137:
3138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 3139: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
3140: April 23, 2003.
3141: </strong></font><br>
3142: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
3143: <p>
3144:
3145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 3146: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 3147: April 22, 2003.
3148: </strong></font><br>
3149: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
3150: <p>
3151:
3152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 3153: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
3154: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
3155: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 3156: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 3157: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
3158: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
3159: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
3160: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
3161: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
3162: Can also be found online at:
3163: <ul>
3164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3165: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 3166: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
3167: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 3168: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 3169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3170: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 3171: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
3172: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 3173: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 3174: </ul>
3175: <p>
3176:
3177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 3178: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
3179: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 3180: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3181: </strong></font><br>
3182: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 3183: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
3184: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
3185: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
3186: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
3187: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
3188: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 3189: <p>
3190:
3191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 3192: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
3193: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 3194: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
3195: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 3196: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
3197: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
3198: at UPenn and DARPA.
3199: <p>
3200:
3201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 3202: [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,
3203: France
1.315 deraadt 3204: April 18, 2003.
3205: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 3206: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 3207: <p>
3208:
3209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.600 bentley 3210: [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 3211: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3212: </strong></font><br>
3213: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
3214: <p>
3215:
3216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 3217: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
3218: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
3219: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3220: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 3221: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
3222: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
3223: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
3224: <p>
3225:
3226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 3227: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
3228: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3229: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 3230: </strong></font><br>
3231: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3232: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
3233: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 3234: American century.
1.267 deraadt 3235: <p>
3236:
3237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 3238: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
3239: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3240: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 3241: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 3242: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
3243: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
3244: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
3245: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
3246: Can also be found online at:
3247: <ul>
3248: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
3249: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 3250: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 3251: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 3252: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 3253: <p>
3254:
3255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 3256: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 3257: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 3258: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 3259: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 3260: </strong></font><br>
3261: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 3262: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
3263: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
3264: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
3265: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 3266:
3267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3268: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
3269: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
3270: New York Times.
3271: </strong></font>(free registration required)
3272:
1.273 deraadt 3273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3274: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 3275: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 3276: ABC News.
3277: </strong></font>
3278:
3279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3280: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 3281: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 3282: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 3283: </strong></font>
3284:
3285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3286: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 3287: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 3288: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 3289: </strong></font>
3290:
3291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 3292: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
3293: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3294: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 3295: </strong></font>
3296:
3297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3298: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 3299: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 3300: Times Daily, AL.
3301: </strong></font>
3302:
3303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3304: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
3305: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
3306: Boston.com, MA.
3307: </strong></font>
3308:
3309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3310: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 3311: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 3312: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
3313: </strong></font>
3314:
3315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 3316: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
3317: [Article was pulled]</a>
3318: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 3319: </strong></font>
3320:
3321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3322: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
3323: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
3324: Infoshop News.
3325: </strong></font>
3326:
3327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3328: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
3329: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3330: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
3331: </strong></font>
3332:
3333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 3334: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
3335: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
3336: Raleigh News, NC.
3337: </strong></font>
3338:
3339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 3340: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 3341: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
3342: Napa News, CA.
3343: </strong></font>
3344:
3345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3346: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 3347: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3348: NEPA News, PA.
3349: </strong></font>
3350:
3351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3352: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
3353: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
3354: Wired News.
3355: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 3356: <br>
3357: <li>
1.333 deraadt 3358: <font color="#009000"><strong>
3359: [JAPANESE]
3360: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
3361: Wired News Japan</a>
3362: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 3363:
1.271 deraadt 3364: </ul>
3365: <p>
1.272 deraadt 3366: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
3367: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 3368: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
3369: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
3370: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
3371: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
3372: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
3373: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 3374: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 3375: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
3376: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
3377: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 3378: <p>
3379: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 3380:
3381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3382: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 3383: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
3384: Indianapolis Star, IN.
3385: </strong></font>
3386:
3387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 3388: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
3389: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3390: Miami Herald, FL.
3391: </strong></font>
3392:
3393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 3394: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3395: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
3396: </strong></font>
3397:
3398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3399: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 3400: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3401: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 3402: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 3403:
3404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3405: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
3406: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
3407: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
3408: ABC News.
3409: </strong></font>
3410:
1.276 deraadt 3411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3412: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 3413: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3414: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 3415: </strong></font>
3416:
1.286 dhartmei 3417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3418: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 3419: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3420: Wilmington Star, NC.
3421: </strong></font>
3422:
1.300 jose 3423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3424: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
3425: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
3426: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
3427: </strong></font>
3428:
1.309 jose 3429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3430: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
3431: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
3432: Globe Technology.
3433: </strong></font>
3434:
1.263 deraadt 3435: </ul>
1.262 beck 3436: <p>
3437:
3438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 3439: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
3440: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3441: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 3442: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 3443: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 3444: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
3445: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
3446: <p>
3447:
3448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 3449: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
3450: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
3451: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3452: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 3453: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
3454: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
3455: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
3456: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
3457: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
3458: and simply restates other press reports.
3459: <p>
3460:
3461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 3462: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
3463: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
3464: OS News, April 18, 2003.
3465: </strong></font><br>
3466: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
3467: <p>
3468:
3469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 3470: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
3471: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3472: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 3473: </strong></font><br>
3474: Another report on the DARPA funding.
3475: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
3476: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
3477: <p>
3478:
3479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 3480: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
3481: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
3482: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
3483: April 17, 2003.
3484: </strong></font><br>
3485: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
3486: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
3487: Tech Anthems</a>
3488: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
3489: 4 so far.
3490: <p>
3491:
3492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 3493: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
3494: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3495: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3496: </strong></font><br>
3497: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
3498: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
3499: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
3500: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
3501: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
3502: Goes on to say:
3503: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
3504: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
3505: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
3506: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 3507: This article is also found online at:
3508: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 3509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3510: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
3511: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
3512: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3513: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3515: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
3516: ZDnet</a>,
3517: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3518: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3520: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
3521: ZDnet Australia</a>,
3522: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 3523: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 3524: </ul>
1.260 ian 3525: <p>
1.279 deraadt 3526:
1.260 ian 3527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3528: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 3529: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 3530: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3531: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 3532: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 3533: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
3534: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
3535: without notice or justification.
3536: <p>
3537:
3538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 3539: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 3540: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 3541: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3542: </strong></font><br>
3543: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
3544: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 3545: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 3546: effective today, without any warning..."
3547: <p>
1.257 ian 3548:
3549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 3550: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
3551: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3552: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 3553: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 3554: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
3555: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
3556: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
3557: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
3558: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 3559: <p>
3560:
3561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 3562: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
3563: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3564: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 3565: </strong></font><br>
3566: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
3567: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
3568: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
3569: quoting two of them:
1.606 tb 3570: <br>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1.257 ian 3571: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
3572: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
3573: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1.606 tb 3574: <br>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1.257 ian 3575: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
3576: <p>
3577:
1.255 ian 3578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3579: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
3580: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 3581: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3582: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 3583: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 3584: <p>
3585:
3586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 3587: [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 3588: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3589: </strong></font><br>
3590: New security concepts in OpenBSD
3591: <p>
3592:
3593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 3594: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
3595: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3596: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 3597: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 3598: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 3599: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
3600: security experts for more than three decades."
3601: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
3602: <p>
1.261 ian 3603:
1.254 drahn 3604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 3605: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 3606: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3607: </strong></font><br>
3608: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3609: <p>
3610:
3611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 3612: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
3613: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
3614: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
3615: </strong></font><br>
3616: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
3617: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
3618: discussion OpenBSD's path.
3619: <p>
3620:
3621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 3622: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
3623: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3624: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 3625: </strong></font><br>
3626: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
3627: from US DARPA.
3628: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
3629: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
3630: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
3631: the BSD license.
3632: <p>
3633: </ul>
3634:
1.251 ian 3635: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3636: <ul>
3637:
3638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3639: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
3640: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
3641: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
3642: </strong></font><br>
3643:
3644: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3645: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3646: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3647: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3648: <p>
3649:
3650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 3651: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
3652: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 3653: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 3654: </strong></font><br>
3655: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
3656: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
3657: Mentions
3658: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
3659: and
3660: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
3661: programs.
3662: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 3663: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 3664: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
3665: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
3666: <p>
1.325 ian 3667: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
3668: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 3669:
3670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3671: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
3672: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
3673: </strong></font><br>
3674: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
3675: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
3676: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
3677: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
3678: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
3679: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
3680: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
3681: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
3682: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
3683: put into service."
3684: <p>
3685: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3686: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3687: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3688: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3689: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3690: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3691: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3692: computers with security features."
3693: <p>
1.329 ian 3694:
3695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3696: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3697: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3698: Slate,
3699: March 3, 2003.
3700: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3701: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3702: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3703: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3704: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3705: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3706: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3707: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3708: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3709: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3710: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3711: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3712: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3713: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3714: of more secure open-source solutions like
1.608 ! tb 3715: <a href="index.html">OpenBSD</a>?"
1.329 ian 3716: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3717: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3718: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3719: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3720: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3721: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3722: the Beltway."
3723: <p>
1.251 ian 3724: </ul>
3725:
1.249 jufi 3726: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3727: <ul>
3728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3729: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3730: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3731: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3732: </strong></font><br>
3733: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3734: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3735: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3736: <p>
1.334 ian 3737:
3738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3739: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3740: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3741: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3742: </strong></font><br>
3743: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3744: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3745: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3746: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3747: "... the hypothetical question ...
3748: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3749: <br>
3750: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3751: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3752: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3753: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3754: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3755: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.608 ! tb 3756: <a href="index.html">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3757: support network security.
3758: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3759: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3760: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3761: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3762: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3763: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3764: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3765: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3766: <br>
3767: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3768: <p>
3769:
1.249 jufi 3770: </ul>
3771:
1.246 jufi 3772: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3773: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3774:
1.247 jufi 3775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3776: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3777: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3778: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3779: </strong></font><br>
3780: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3781: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3782: <p>
3783:
1.247 jufi 3784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3785: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3786: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3787: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3788: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3789: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3790: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3791: <p>
3792:
3793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3794: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3795: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3796: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3797: </strong></font><br>
3798: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3799: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3800: <p>
1.247 jufi 3801: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3802:
1.244 jufi 3803: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3804: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3805:
1.247 jufi 3806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3807: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3808: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3809: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3810: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3811: </strong></font><br>
3812: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3813: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3814: md5 digests.
3815: <p>
3816:
1.247 jufi 3817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3818: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3819: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3820: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3821: </strong></font><br>
3822: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3823: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3824: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3825: right the first time."
3826: <p>
1.247 jufi 3827: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3828:
3829:
3830: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3831: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3832:
1.247 jufi 3833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3834: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3835: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3836: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3837: </strong></font><br>
3838: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3839: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3840: part 6</a>.
3841: <p>
3842:
1.247 jufi 3843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3844: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3845: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3846: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3847: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3848: </strong></font><br>
3849: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3850: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3851: <p>
1.301 jose 3852:
3853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3854: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3855: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3856: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3857: </strong></font><br>
3858:
3859: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3860: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3861: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3862: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3863: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3864: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3865: <i>Here's the
3866: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3867: <p>
1.247 jufi 3868: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3869:
3870: <h2>July, 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/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3875: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3876: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3877: </strong></font><br>
3878: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3879: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3880: <p>
3881:
1.247 jufi 3882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3883: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3884: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3885: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3886: </strong></font><br>
3887: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3888: this time using pf.
3889: <p>
1.247 jufi 3890: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3891:
3892: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3893: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3894:
1.247 jufi 3895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3896: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3897: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3898: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3899: </strong></font><br>
3900: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3901: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3902: their rotation.
3903: <p>
3904:
1.247 jufi 3905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3906: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3907: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3908: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3909: </strong></font><br>
3910: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3911: <p>
1.247 jufi 3912: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3913:
1.239 jufi 3914: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3915: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3916:
1.247 jufi 3917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3918: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3919: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3920: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3921: </strong></font><br>
3922: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3923: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3924: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3925: <p>
3926:
1.247 jufi 3927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3928: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3929: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3930: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3931: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3932: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3933: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3934: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3935: <p>
1.247 jufi 3936: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3937:
1.235 lebel 3938: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3939: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3940:
1.239 jufi 3941:
1.247 jufi 3942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3943: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3944: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3945: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3946: </strong></font><br>
3947: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3948: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3949: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3950: <p>
1.301 jose 3951:
1.247 jufi 3952: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3953:
1.228 horacio 3954: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3955: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3956:
1.247 jufi 3957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3958: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3959: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3960: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3961: </strong></font><br>
3962: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3963: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3964: <p>
3965:
1.247 jufi 3966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3967: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3968: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3969: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3970: </strong></font><br>
3971: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3972: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3973: <p>
3974:
1.247 jufi 3975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3976: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3977: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3978: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3979: </strong></font><br>
3980: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3981: on the desktop of his parents.
3982: <p>
3983:
1.247 jufi 3984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3985: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3986: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3987: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3988: </strong></font><br>
3989: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3990: using IPFilter.
3991:
3992: <p>
3993:
1.247 jufi 3994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3995: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3996: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3997: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3998: </strong></font><br>
3999: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
4000: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
4001: perspectives of the four OS.
4002: <br>
4003: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 4004: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 4005: <p>
4006:
1.247 jufi 4007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 4008: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
4009: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 4010: software and security</a>,
4011: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 4012: </strong></font><br>
4013:
4014: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
4015: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
4016: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
4017: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
4018: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
4019: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
4020: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
4021: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
4022: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
4023: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
4024: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
4025: security conscious team beyond doubt.
4026: <p>
1.247 jufi 4027: </ul>
1.228 horacio 4028:
1.225 horacio 4029: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 4030: <ul>
1.225 horacio 4031:
1.247 jufi 4032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4033: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
4034: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 4035: Interview</a>,
4036: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 4037: </strong></font><br>
4038:
4039: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
4040: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
4041: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 4042: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 4043: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
4044: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
4045: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
4046: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
4047: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 4048: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 4049: of choice.
4050: <p>
1.247 jufi 4051: </ul>
1.225 horacio 4052:
4053: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4054: <ul>
1.225 horacio 4055:
1.247 jufi 4056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4057: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 4058: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
4059: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 4060: </strong></font><br>
4061:
4062: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
4063: <p>
4064:
1.247 jufi 4065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4066: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 4067: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
4068: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 4069: </strong></font><br>
4070:
4071: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
4072: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
4073: <p>
1.247 jufi 4074: </ul>
1.225 horacio 4075:
1.218 horacio 4076: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4077: <ul>
1.218 horacio 4078:
1.247 jufi 4079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 4080: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 4081: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 4082: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 4083: </strong></font><br>
4084:
4085: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
4086: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
4087: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
4088: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
4089: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
4090: subjects. Worth a read.
4091: <p>
4092:
4093:
1.247 jufi 4094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 4095: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 4096: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
4097: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 4098: </strong></font><br>
4099:
4100: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
4101: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
4102: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
4103: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
4104: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
4105: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
4106: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
4107: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
4108: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 4109: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 4110: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
4111: on other operating systems.<br>
4112: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
4113: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
4114: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
4115: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
4116: <p>
4117:
1.247 jufi 4118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4119: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 4120: Operating System 2010</a>,
4121: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 4122: </strong></font><br>
4123:
4124: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
4125: covering the level of software integration into the core
4126: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
4127: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
4128: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
4129: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
4130: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
4131: <p>
4132:
1.247 jufi 4133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 4134: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 4135: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
4136: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 4137: </strong></font><br>
4138:
4139: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
4140: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
4141: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
4142: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
4143: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
4144: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
4145: <p>
1.247 jufi 4146: </ul>
1.221 horacio 4147:
1.210 jufi 4148: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4149: <ul>
1.215 horacio 4150:
1.247 jufi 4151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4152: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 4153: Already a Contender</a>,
4154: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 4155: </strong></font><br>
4156:
4157: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
4158: source software in response to an article which claimed that
4159: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
4160: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
4161: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
4162: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
4163: <p>
4164:
1.247 jufi 4165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 4166: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 4167: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
4168: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 4169: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4170:
1.224 horacio 4171: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
4172: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
4173: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
4174: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
4175: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
4176: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 4177: <p>
1.247 jufi 4178: </ul>
1.215 horacio 4179:
4180: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4181: <ul>
1.215 horacio 4182:
1.247 jufi 4183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4184: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
4185: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 4186: Division</a>,
4187: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 4188: </strong></font><br>
4189:
4190: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
4191: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 4192: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 4193: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
4194: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
4195: investment</em>.<br>
4196: The implementation details can be seen on their
4197: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
4198: <p>
4199:
1.247 jufi 4200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4201: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
4202: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
4203: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
4204: </strong></font><br>
4205:
4206: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
4207: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
4208: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 4209: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 4210: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
4211: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
4212: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
4213: <p>
4214:
4215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4216: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 4217: Thinking about Security</a>,
4218: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 4219: </strong></font><br>
4220:
4221: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
4222: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
4223: security and says that even secured operating systems running
4224: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
4225: to time.<br>
4226: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
4227: system and just the most secure system.
4228: <p>
4229:
1.247 jufi 4230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4231: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 4232: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
4233: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 4234: </strong></font><br>
4235:
4236: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
4237: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
4238: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
4239: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
4240: choice:<br>
4241: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
4242: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
4243: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
4244: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
4245: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
4246: network security devices and as such must be well
4247: armored."</em><br>
4248: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
4249: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
4250: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
4251: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
4252: <br>
4253: Bravo!
4254: <p>
1.247 jufi 4255: </ul>
1.210 jufi 4256:
1.207 ian 4257: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4258: <ul>
1.215 horacio 4259:
1.247 jufi 4260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 4261: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
4262: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
4263: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 4264:
1.207 ian 4265: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
4266: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 4267: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 4268: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
4269: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
4270: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 4271: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 4272: <p>
1.247 jufi 4273: </ul>
1.207 ian 4274:
1.194 jufi 4275: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4276: <ul>
1.194 jufi 4277:
1.247 jufi 4278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4279: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 4280: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
4281: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 4282: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4283:
1.240 miod 4284: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 4285: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
4286: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
4287: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
4288: <p>
4289:
1.247 jufi 4290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4291: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
4292: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
4293: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
4294:
4295: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
4296: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
4297: <p>
4298:
4299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4300: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
4301: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4302: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
4303:
4304: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
4305: <p>
4306:
4307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4308: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 4309: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
4310: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
4311: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4312:
1.240 miod 4313: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 4314: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 4315: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
4316: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 4317: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 4318: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 4319: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
4320: <br>
1.413 deraadt 4321: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 4322: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
4323: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
4324: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
4325: <p>
4326:
1.247 jufi 4327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 4328: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
4329: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 4330: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 4331: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4332:
1.194 jufi 4333: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
4334: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
4335: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
4336: <br>
4337: The new
4338: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 4339: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 4340: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
4341: <p>
1.247 jufi 4342: </ul>
1.194 jufi 4343:
1.190 horacio 4344: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4345: <ul>
1.190 horacio 4346:
1.247 jufi 4347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 4348:
4349: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
4350: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
4351:
1.301 jose 4352:
1.191 jufi 4353: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
4354: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
4355:
4356: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
4357: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
4358:
1.582 grunk 4359: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20010527142347">
1.212 horacio 4360: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 4361: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
4362:
1.211 horacio 4363: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
4364: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 4365: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
4366:
1.247 jufi 4367: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 4368: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
4369:
1.247 jufi 4370: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 4371: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
4372:
1.212 horacio 4373: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
4374: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 4375: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
4376:
4377: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
4378: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
4379:
4380: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
4381: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
4382:
1.301 jose 4383: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
4384: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
4385:
1.191 jufi 4386: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
4387: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
4388:
4389: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 4390: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 4391:
1.192 jufi 4392: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
4393: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 4394: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 4395:
1.193 deraadt 4396: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
4397: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 4398: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 4399:
1.247 jufi 4400: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 4401: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
4402:
1.247 jufi 4403: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 4404: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
4405: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
4406:
1.213 horacio 4407: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.605 sthen 4408: OpenBSD gets brand-new packet filter</a> <em>(Slashdot echoes OpenBSD <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a> development.)</em>,
1.213 horacio 4409: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
4410:
1.190 horacio 4411: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 4412: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
4413: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
4414: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
4415: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
4416: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
4417: <p>
1.190 horacio 4418:
1.247 jufi 4419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4420: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
4421: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
4422: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 4423: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4424:
1.195 jufi 4425: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 4426: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
4427: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
4428: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 4429: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
4430: <p>
4431:
1.247 jufi 4432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4433: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 4434: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
4435: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
4436: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4437:
1.191 jufi 4438: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 4439: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
4440: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
4441: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
4442: <p>
4443:
4444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4445: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
4446: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4447: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
4448:
4449: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
4450: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 4451: <p>
1.247 jufi 4452: </ul>
1.190 horacio 4453:
1.191 jufi 4454:
1.186 jufi 4455: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4456: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 4457:
1.247 jufi 4458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 4459: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 4460: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
4461: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 4462: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 4463:
1.188 jufi 4464: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 4465: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 4466: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 4467: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
4468: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 4469: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 4470: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 4471: <p>
4472:
1.301 jose 4473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4474: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
4475: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4476: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
4477:
4478: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
4479: <p>
1.191 jufi 4480:
1.247 jufi 4481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 4482: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
4483: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 4484: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 4485: </strong></font><br>
4486:
4487: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
4488: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
4489: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
4490: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
4491: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
4492: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
4493: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
4494: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
4495: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
4496: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
4497: familiar?
4498: <p>
1.247 jufi 4499: </ul>
1.191 jufi 4500:
1.178 louis 4501: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4502: <ul>
1.178 louis 4503:
1.247 jufi 4504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 4505: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 4506: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
4507: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 4508: </strong></font><br>
4509:
4510: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
4511: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
4512: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
4513: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
4514: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
4515: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
4516: <p>
4517:
1.247 jufi 4518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4519: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
4520: Open source under the hood</a>,
4521: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 4522: </strong></font><br>
4523:
4524: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
4525: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
4526: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
4527: <p>
4528:
1.247 jufi 4529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4530: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
4531: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
4532: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 4533: </strong></font><br>
4534:
4535: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
4536: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
4537: <p>
1.247 jufi 4538: </ul>
1.179 louis 4539:
1.174 louis 4540:
1.175 louis 4541: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4542: <ul>
1.175 louis 4543:
1.247 jufi 4544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4545: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
4546: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
4547: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 4548: </strong></font><br>
4549:
4550: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
4551: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
4552: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
4553: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
4554: <p>
4555:
1.247 jufi 4556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4557: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
4558: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
4559: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 4560: </strong></font><br>
4561:
4562: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 4563: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 4564: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
4565: <p>
1.247 jufi 4566: </ul>
1.175 louis 4567:
1.176 louis 4568:
1.172 mickey 4569: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4570: <ul>
1.172 mickey 4571:
1.247 jufi 4572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4573: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
4574: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 4575: </strong></font><br>
4576:
4577: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
4578: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
4579: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 4580: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 4581: <p>
4582:
1.247 jufi 4583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 4584: <a
1.269 deraadt 4585: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
4586: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
4587: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 4588: </strong></font><br>
4589:
4590: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
4591: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
4592: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
4593: <p>
4594:
1.247 jufi 4595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4596: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 4597: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
4598: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 4599: </strong></font><br>
4600:
4601: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
4602: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
4603: <p>
4604:
1.247 jufi 4605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4606: <a
1.269 deraadt 4607: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
4608: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 4609: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
4610: </strong></font><br>
4611:
4612: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
4613: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
4614: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
4615: our own Theo de Raadt.
4616: <p>
4617:
1.247 jufi 4618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4619: <a
1.269 deraadt 4620: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
4621: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
4622: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 4623: </strong></font><br>
4624:
4625: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
4626: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
4627: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
4628: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
4629: shut down.]
4630: <p>
4631:
1.247 jufi 4632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4633: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 4634: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 4635: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
4636: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 4637: </strong></font><br>
4638:
4639: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
4640: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
4641: <p>
1.247 jufi 4642: </ul>
1.172 mickey 4643:
1.161 louis 4644: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4645: <ul>
1.161 louis 4646:
1.247 jufi 4647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4648: <a
1.269 deraadt 4649: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
4650: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
4651: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 4652: </strong></font><br>
4653:
4654: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
4655: by John Wolley
4656: <p>
4657:
1.247 jufi 4658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4659: <a
1.269 deraadt 4660: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
4661: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
4662: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 4663: </strong></font><br>
4664:
4665: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
4666: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
4667: OpenBSD).
4668: <p>
4669:
1.247 jufi 4670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4671: <a
1.247 jufi 4672: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 4673: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
4674: </strong></font><br>
4675:
4676: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
4677: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1.585 steven 4678: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports
1.171 louis 4679: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
4680: and hindsight.
4681: <p>
4682:
1.247 jufi 4683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4684: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4685: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4686: </strong></font><br>
4687:
4688: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4689: <p>
4690:
1.247 jufi 4691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4692: <a
1.168 provos 4693: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4694: December 7, 2000
4695: </strong></font><br>
4696:
4697: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4698: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4699: us explain.
4700: <p>
4701:
1.247 jufi 4702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4703: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4704: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4705: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4706: December 6, 2000
4707: </strong></font><br>
4708:
4709: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4710: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4711: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4712: <p>
4713:
1.247 jufi 4714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4715: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4716: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4717: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4718: </strong></font><br>
4719:
4720: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4721: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4722: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4723: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4724: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4725: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4726: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4727: <p>
4728:
4729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4730: <a
1.226 horacio 4731: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4732: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4733: </strong></font><br>
4734:
4735: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4736: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4737: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4738: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4739: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4740: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4741: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4742: <p>
1.162 millert 4743:
1.247 jufi 4744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4745: <a
1.161 louis 4746: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4747: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4748: </strong></font><br>
4749:
4750: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4751: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4752: <p>
4753:
1.247 jufi 4754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4755: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4756: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4757: </strong></font><br>
4758:
4759: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4760: <p>
4761:
4762:
1.247 jufi 4763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4764: <a
1.226 horacio 4765: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4766: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4767: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4768: </strong></font><br>
4769:
4770: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4771: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4772: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4773: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4774: <p>
1.247 jufi 4775: </ul>
1.169 louis 4776:
1.158 louis 4777: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4778: <ul>
1.147 louis 4779:
1.247 jufi 4780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4781: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4782: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4783: </strong></font><br>
4784:
4785: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4786: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4787: <p>
4788:
1.247 jufi 4789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4790: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4791: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4792: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4793: </strong></font><br>
4794: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4795: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4796: <p>
4797:
1.247 jufi 4798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4799: <a
4800: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4801: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4802: </strong></font><br>
4803:
4804: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4805: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4806: <p>
4807:
1.247 jufi 4808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4809: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4810: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4811: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4812:
1.213 horacio 4813: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4814: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4815: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4816: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4817: <p>
1.215 horacio 4818:
1.247 jufi 4819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4820: <a
4821: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4822: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4823: </strong></font><br>
4824:
4825: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4826: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4827: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4828: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4829: much of the attitude too).
4830: <p>
1.161 louis 4831:
1.247 jufi 4832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4833: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4834: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4835: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4836:
1.157 louis 4837: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4838: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4839: <p>
1.247 jufi 4840: </ul>
1.157 louis 4841:
4842: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4843: <ul>
1.157 louis 4844:
1.247 jufi 4845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4846: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4847: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4848: </strong></font><br>
4849:
4850: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4851: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4852: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4853: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4854: <p>
4855:
1.247 jufi 4856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4857: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4858: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4859: </strong></font><br>
4860:
4861: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4862: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4863: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4864: it because they love coding...
4865: <p>
4866:
1.247 jufi 4867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4868: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4869: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4870: </strong></font><br>
4871:
4872: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4873: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4874: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4875: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4876: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4877: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4878: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4879: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4880: <p>
4881:
1.247 jufi 4882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4883: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4884: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4885: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4886: </strong></font><br>
4887:
4888: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4889: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4890: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4891: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4892: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4893: the pizza.
4894: <p>
4895:
1.247 jufi 4896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4897: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4898: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4899: </strong></font><br>
4900:
4901: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4902: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4903: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4904: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4905: problems.
4906: <p>
4907:
1.247 jufi 4908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.568 ian 4909: <a href="https://osuny.co.uk/txt/zines/napalm/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba
4910: to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
1.154 louis 4911: </strong></font><br>
4912:
1.222 miod 4913: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4914: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4915: - whether they like it or not.
4916: <p>
4917:
1.247 jufi 4918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4919: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4920: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4921: </strong></font><br>
4922:
4923: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4924: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4925: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4926: <p>
1.148 aaron 4927:
1.247 jufi 4928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4929: <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 4930: </strong></font><br>
4931:
4932: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4933: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4934: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4935: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4936: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4937: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4938: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4939: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4940: <p>
4941:
1.247 jufi 4942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4943: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4944: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4945: </strong></font><br>
4946:
4947: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4948: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4949: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4950: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4951: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4952: <p>
1.247 jufi 4953: </ul>
1.147 louis 4954:
1.138 louis 4955: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4956: <ul>
1.138 louis 4957:
1.247 jufi 4958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4959: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4960: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4961: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4962: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4963: </strong></font><br>
4964:
1.227 horacio 4965: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4966: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4967: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4968: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4969: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4970: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4971: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4972: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4973: <p>
4974:
1.247 jufi 4975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4976: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4977: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4978: </strong></font><br>
4979:
4980: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4981: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4982: groups, and even Linux.
4983: <p>
4984:
1.247 jufi 4985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4986: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4987: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4988: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4989: </strong></font><br>
4990:
4991: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4992: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4993: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4994: library after installing the OS.
4995: <p>
4996:
1.247 jufi 4997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4998: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4999: Sys Admin, September 2000
5000: </strong></font><br>
5001:
5002: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
5003: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
5004: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
5005: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.605 sthen 5006: (<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=vpn&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">vpn(8)</a>,
5007: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
5008: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=isakmpd&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">isakmpd(8)</a>) and the OpenBSD
1.189 horacio 5009: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 5010: out of the system.
5011: <p>
5012:
1.247 jufi 5013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 5014: <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
5015: </strong></font><br>
5016:
5017: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 5018: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 5019: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
5020: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
5021: the IP filtering and address translation.
5022: <p>
1.301 jose 5023:
5024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5025: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
5026: </strong></font><br>
5027:
1.585 steven 5028: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">Ports</a> system that gives
1.301 jose 5029: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
5030: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
5031: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
5032: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
5033: <p>
1.247 jufi 5034: </ul>
1.200 niklas 5035:
1.131 louis 5036: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5037: <ul>
1.131 louis 5038:
1.247 jufi 5039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5040: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
5041: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
5042: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 5043: </strong></font><br>
5044:
5045: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
5046: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
5047: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
5048: <p>
5049:
1.247 jufi 5050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 5051: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
5052: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
5053: </strong></font><br>
5054:
5055: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
5056: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
5057: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
5058: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
5059: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
5060: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
5061: note of"</i>.
5062: <p>
5063:
1.247 jufi 5064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 5065: <a
1.247 jufi 5066: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 5067: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
5068: </strong></font><br>
5069:
5070: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
5071: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
5072: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
5073: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
5074: <p>
5075:
1.247 jufi 5076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 5077: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 5078: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
5079: </strong></font><br>
5080:
5081: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
5082: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
5083: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
5084: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
5085: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
5086: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
5087: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
5088: <p>
5089:
1.247 jufi 5090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 5091: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
5092: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
5093: 2000
5094: </strong></font><br>
5095:
5096: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
5097: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
5098: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
5099: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
5100: against current industry practices.
5101: <p>
5102:
1.247 jufi 5103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 5104: <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
5105: </strong></font><br>
5106:
5107: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
5108: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
5109: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
5110: <p>
5111:
1.247 jufi 5112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 5113: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
5114: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
5115: </strong></font><br>
5116:
5117: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
5118: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
5119: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
5120: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
5121: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
5122: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
5123: careful code reviews, he concludes.
5124: <p>
5125:
1.247 jufi 5126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 5127: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
5128: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
5129: </strong></font><br>
5130:
5131: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
5132: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
5133: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
5134: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
5135: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 5136: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
5137: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
5138: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 5139: <p>
1.247 jufi 5140: </ul>
1.131 louis 5141:
1.118 louis 5142: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5143: <ul>
1.118 louis 5144:
1.247 jufi 5145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 5146: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
5147: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
5148: </strong></font><br>
5149:
5150: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
5151: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
5152: about time. The article mentions that
5153: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
5154: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
5155: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 5156: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 5157: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
5158: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 5159: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 5160: <p>
5161:
1.247 jufi 5162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5163: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 5164: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 5165: </strong></font><br>
5166:
5167: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
5168: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
5169: of OpenSSH.
5170: <p>
5171:
1.247 jufi 5172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5173: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 5174: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 5175: </strong></font><br>
5176:
5177: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 5178: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 5179: bridging.
5180: <p>
5181:
1.247 jufi 5182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5183: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
5184: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 5185: </strong></font><br>
5186:
1.121 deraadt 5187: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
5188: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 5189: <p>
5190:
1.247 jufi 5191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5192: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
5193: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
5194: </strong></font><br>
5195:
5196: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
5197: <p>
5198:
1.247 jufi 5199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.594 nick 5200: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1.120 deraadt 5201: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 5202: </strong></font><br>
5203:
1.120 deraadt 5204: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
5205: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 5206: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
5207: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
5208: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
5209: <p>
5210:
1.247 jufi 5211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 5212: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
5213: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
5214: </strong></font><br>
5215:
1.222 miod 5216: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 5217: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
5218: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
5219: protocols and their quirks.
5220: <p>
5221:
1.247 jufi 5222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5223: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
5224: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 5225: </strong></font><br>
5226:
5227: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
5228: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
5229: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 5230: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 5231: <p>
5232:
1.247 jufi 5233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 5234: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
5235: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
5236: </strong></font><br>
5237:
5238: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
5239: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
5240: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
5241: <p>
5242:
1.247 jufi 5243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.594 nick 5244: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1.120 deraadt 5245: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 5246: </strong></font><br>
5247:
5248: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
5249: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
5250: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
5251: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
5252: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
5253: <p>
1.247 jufi 5254: </ul>
1.118 louis 5255:
1.104 louis 5256: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5257: <ul>
1.104 louis 5258:
1.247 jufi 5259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 5260: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
5261: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
5262: </strong></font><br>
5263:
5264: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
5265: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
5266: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
5267: be a bit dry.
5268: <p>
5269:
1.247 jufi 5270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 5271: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
5272: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
5273: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
5274: </strong></font><br>
5275: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
5276: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
5277: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
5278: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
5279: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
5280: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
5281: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
5282: <p>
5283:
1.247 jufi 5284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5285: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
5286: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 5287: 2000
1.128 louis 5288: </strong></font><br>
5289:
5290: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
5291: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
5292: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
5293: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
5294: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 5295: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 5296: <p>
5297:
1.247 jufi 5298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5299: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
5300: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 5301: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 5302:
5303: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
5304: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
5305: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
5306: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.585 steven 5307: <a href="faq/ports/index.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1.113 naddy 5308: <p>
1.110 louis 5309:
1.247 jufi 5310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 5311: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
5312: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
5313: </strong></font><br>
5314:
5315: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
5316: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
5317: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
5318: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
5319: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
5320: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
5321: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
5322: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
5323: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
5324: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
5325: <p>
5326:
1.247 jufi 5327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 5328: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5329: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 5330:
5331: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
5332: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 5333: <p>
1.108 louis 5334:
1.247 jufi 5335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 5336: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
5337: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 5338: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 5339:
5340: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
5341: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
5342: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 5343: <p>
1.106 louis 5344:
1.247 jufi 5345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 5346: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
5347: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 5348: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 5349:
5350: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
5351: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
5352: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
5353: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 5354: <p>
1.107 louis 5355:
1.247 jufi 5356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5357: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
5358: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5359: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 5360:
5361: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
5362: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 5363: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 5364: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
5365: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 5366: <p>
1.105 louis 5367:
1.247 jufi 5368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 5369: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 5370: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 5371: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 5372:
1.113 naddy 5373: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
5374: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 5375: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 5376: <p>
1.104 louis 5377:
1.247 jufi 5378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5379: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
5380: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
5381: </strong></font><br>
5382:
5383: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
5384: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
5385: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
5386: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
5387: <p>
1.301 jose 5388:
5389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5390: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.577 tobias 5391: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
1.301 jose 5392: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
5393:
5394: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
5395: hardware-supported cryptography.
5396: <p>
1.247 jufi 5397: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 5398:
1.85 louis 5399: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5400: <ul>
1.85 louis 5401:
1.247 jufi 5402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5403: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 5404: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 5405: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5406:
5407: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
5408: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
5409: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
5410: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
5411: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
5412: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
5413: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 5414: <p>
1.99 louis 5415:
1.247 jufi 5416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5417: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 5418: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5419: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 5420:
5421: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
5422: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
5423: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
5424: conditions.
1.113 naddy 5425: <p>
1.100 louis 5426:
1.247 jufi 5427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5428: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 5429: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5430: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 5431:
5432: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
5433: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
5434: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
5435: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 5436: <p>
1.95 louis 5437:
1.247 jufi 5438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5439: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 5440: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5441: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 5442:
5443: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
5444: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 5445: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 5446: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
5447: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5448: <p>
1.92 louis 5449:
1.247 jufi 5450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5451: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 5452: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5453: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 5454:
5455: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
5456: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
5457: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
5458: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
5459: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
5460: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 5461: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 5462: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 5463: <p>
1.91 louis 5464:
1.247 jufi 5465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5466: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
5467: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 5468: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5469:
5470: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
5471: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
5472: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
5473: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
5474: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
5475: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
5476: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
5477: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
5478: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 5479: <p>
1.90 louis 5480:
1.247 jufi 5481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5482: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
5483: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
5484: </strong></font><br>
5485: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
5486: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
5487: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
5488: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
5489: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
5490: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
5491: <p>
5492:
1.247 jufi 5493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 5494: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
5495: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5496: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 5497:
1.113 naddy 5498: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
5499: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 5500: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
5501: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
5502: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
5503: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
5504: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 5505: <p>
1.87 louis 5506:
1.247 jufi 5507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 5508: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
5509: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 5510: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5511:
5512: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 5513: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 5514: <p>
1.85 louis 5515:
1.247 jufi 5516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5517: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
5518: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
5519: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
5520:
5521: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
5522: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
5523: <p>
5524:
5525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 5526: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
5527: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5528: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 5529:
5530: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.577 tobias 5531: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 5532: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
5533: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 5534: <p>
1.89 louis 5535:
1.247 jufi 5536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5537: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 5538: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5539: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5540:
5541: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
5542: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
5543: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
5544: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
5545: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 5546: </ul>
1.85 louis 5547:
1.78 deraadt 5548: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5549: <ul>
1.74 louis 5550:
1.247 jufi 5551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5552: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 5553: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 5554: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 5555: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5556:
5557: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
5558: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
5559: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5560: <p>
1.83 louis 5561:
1.247 jufi 5562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 5563: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
5564: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5565: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 5566:
5567: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
5568: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 5569: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 5570: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
5571: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 5572: <p>
1.93 louis 5573:
1.247 jufi 5574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5575: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
5576: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
5577: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5578: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 5579:
1.83 louis 5580: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
5581: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
5582: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
5583: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
5584: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 5585: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
5586: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
5587: <p>
1.82 aaron 5588:
1.247 jufi 5589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5590: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 5591: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5592: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 5593:
1.83 louis 5594: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
5595: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
5596: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 5597: <p>
1.80 louis 5598:
1.247 jufi 5599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5600: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 5601: Bad Press</a>,
5602: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 5603: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 5604:
5605: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 5606: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 5607: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
5608: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
5609: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 5610: <p>
1.247 jufi 5611: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 5612:
5613: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5614: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 5615:
1.247 jufi 5616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5617: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
5618: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 5619: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 5620: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 5621:
5622: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
5623: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
5624: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
5625: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 5626: <p>
1.74 louis 5627:
1.247 jufi 5628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 5629: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
5630: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 5631: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5632:
1.219 horacio 5633: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
5634: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
5635: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
5636: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
5637: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
5638: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
5639: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 5640: <p>
1.88 louis 5641:
1.247 jufi 5642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 5643: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 5644: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 5645: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 5646:
5647: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
5648: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
5649: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
5650: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 5651: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 5652: <p>
1.81 louis 5653:
1.247 jufi 5654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5655: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 5656: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5657: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5658:
5659: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
5660: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
5661: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
5662: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
5663: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
5664: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
5665: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 5666: <p>
1.90 louis 5667:
1.247 jufi 5668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5669: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 5670: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5671: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 5672:
5673: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
5674: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
5675: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 5676: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 5677: <p>
1.247 jufi 5678: </ul>
1.71 louis 5679:
1.69 deraadt 5680: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5681: <ul>
1.70 louis 5682:
1.247 jufi 5683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5684: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5685: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5686: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5687:
5688: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5689: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5690: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5691: <p>
1.70 louis 5692:
1.247 jufi 5693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5694: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5695: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5696: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5697:
5698: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5699: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5700: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5701: <p>
1.68 louis 5702:
1.247 jufi 5703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5704: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5705: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5706: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5707: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5708:
1.111 jufi 5709: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5710: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5711: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5712: "secure by default" installation.
5713: <p>
1.64 louis 5714:
1.247 jufi 5715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5716: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5717: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5718: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5719:
1.113 naddy 5720: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5721: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5722: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5723: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5724: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5725: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5726: <p>
1.66 louis 5727:
1.247 jufi 5728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5729: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5730: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5731: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5732:
5733: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5734: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5735: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5736: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5737: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5738: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5739: <p>
1.83 louis 5740:
1.247 jufi 5741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5742: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5743: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5744: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5745:
5746: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5747: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5748: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5749: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5750: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5751: <p>
1.64 louis 5752:
1.247 jufi 5753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5754: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5755: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5756: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5757:
5758: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5759: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5760: <p>
1.301 jose 5761:
5762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5763: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5764: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5765: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5766: </strong></font><br>
5767:
5768: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5769: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5770: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5771: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5772: Giving way to
5773: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5774: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5775: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5776: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5777: <p>
1.247 jufi 5778: </ul>
1.65 louis 5779:
1.69 deraadt 5780: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5781: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5782:
1.247 jufi 5783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5784: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5785: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5786: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5787:
5788: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5789: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5790: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5791: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5792: <p>
1.88 louis 5793:
1.247 jufi 5794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5795: <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 5796: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5797:
5798: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5799: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5800: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5801: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5802: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5803: <p>
1.60 louis 5804:
1.247 jufi 5805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5806: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5807: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5808: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5809: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5810:
5811: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5812: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5813: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5814: <p>
1.58 louis 5815:
1.247 jufi 5816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5817: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5818: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5819:
5820: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5821: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5822: <p>
1.53 louis 5823:
1.247 jufi 5824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5825: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5826: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5827: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5828:
5829: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5830: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5831: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5832: <p>
1.99 louis 5833:
1.247 jufi 5834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5835: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5836: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5837:
5838: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5839: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5840: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5841: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5842: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5843:
1.247 jufi 5844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5845: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5846: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5847: </strong></font><br>
5848:
5849: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5850: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5851: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5852: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5853: <p>
5854:
1.247 jufi 5855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5856: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5857: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5858: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5859:
5860: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5861: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5862: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5863:
1.247 jufi 5864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5865: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5866: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5867:
5868: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5869: in
1.247 jufi 5870: <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 5871: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5872: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5873: <p>
1.53 louis 5874:
1.247 jufi 5875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5876: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5877: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5878: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5879: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5880:
1.58 louis 5881: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5882: <p>
1.301 jose 5883:
5884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5885: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5886: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5887: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5888: Informacyjny, January 2000
5889: </strong></font><br>
5890:
5891: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5892: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5893: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5894: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5895: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5896: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5897: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5898: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5899: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5900: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5901: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5902: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5903: <p>
5904:
5905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5906: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5907: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5908: </strong></font><br>
5909:
5910: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5911: <p>
5912: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5913:
1.69 deraadt 5914: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5915: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5916:
1.247 jufi 5917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5918: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5919: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5920: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5921: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5922:
1.58 louis 5923: Kurt Seifried
5924: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5925: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5926: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5927: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5928:
1.247 jufi 5929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5930: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5931: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5932: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5933:
5934: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5935: <p>
1.96 louis 5936:
1.247 jufi 5937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5938: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5939: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5940: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5941: </strong></font><br>
5942:
5943: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5944: <p>
5945:
5946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5947: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5948: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5949: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5950:
5951: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1.602 deraadt 5952: and cryptography. He notes the lack of multiprocessor support
1.86 louis 5953: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5954: <p>
1.247 jufi 5955: </ul>
1.86 louis 5956:
1.69 deraadt 5957: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5958: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5959:
1.247 jufi 5960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5961: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5962: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5963: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5964:
5965: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5966: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5967: <p>
1.61 louis 5968:
1.247 jufi 5969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5970: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5971: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5972: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5973: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5974:
5975: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5976: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5977: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5978: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5979: right -- or at least strives to".
5980: <p>
1.48 louis 5981:
1.247 jufi 5982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5983: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5984: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5985: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5986: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5987: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5988: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5989: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5990: <p>
1.61 louis 5991:
1.247 jufi 5992: <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 5993: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5994: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5995:
5996: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5997: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5998: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5999: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 6000: <p>
1.46 louis 6001:
1.247 jufi 6002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 6003: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
6004: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 6005: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 6006:
6007: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
6008: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 6009: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 6010:
1.247 jufi 6011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 6012: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
6013: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 6014: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 6015:
6016: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
6017: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
6018: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
6019: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 6020: <p>
1.247 jufi 6021: </ul>
1.70 louis 6022:
1.69 deraadt 6023: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6024: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6025:
1.247 jufi 6026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 6027: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
6028: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 6029: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 6030: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 6031:
6032: Kurt Seifried
6033: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
6034: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
6035: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 6036: <p>
1.44 philen 6037:
1.247 jufi 6038: <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 6039: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 6040: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 6041:
6042: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 6043: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 6044:
1.247 jufi 6045: <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 6046: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 6047: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 6048:
6049: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 6050: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 6051:
1.247 jufi 6052: <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 6053: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 6054: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 6055:
6056: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
6057: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
6058: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
6059: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 6060: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 6061:
1.247 jufi 6062: <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 6063: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 6064: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 6065:
1.36 louis 6066: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 6067: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 6068:
1.247 jufi 6069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6070: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 6071: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 6072: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 6073:
6074: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 6075: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 6076: </ul>
1.38 louis 6077:
1.69 deraadt 6078: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6079: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6080:
1.247 jufi 6081: <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 6082: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 6083: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 6084:
6085: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
6086: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 6087: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 6088:
1.113 naddy 6089: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 6090: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 6091: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 6092: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 6093:
6094: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
6095: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 6096: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
6097: terminal:
1.113 naddy 6098: <blockquote>
6099: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
6100: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
6101: <br>
6102: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
6103: </code>
6104: </blockquote>
6105: <p>
6106:
1.247 jufi 6107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 6108: <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 6109: <p>
6110:
6111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6112: <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 6113: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 6114:
6115: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
6116: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 6117: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 6118: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 6119:
1.247 jufi 6120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 6121: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
6122: Sept. 28, 1999
6123: </strong></font><br>
6124:
6125: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
6126: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
6127: translating and reprinting articles from
6128: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
6129: <p>
6130:
6131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 6132: <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 6133: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 6134:
6135: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
6136: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
6137: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
6138: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
6139: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 6140: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 6141: <p>
1.19 louis 6142:
1.113 naddy 6143: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 6144: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 6145: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 6146:
6147: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
6148: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
6149: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 6150: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
6151: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 6152: <p>
1.16 louis 6153:
1.247 jufi 6154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6155: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 6156: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 6157: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 6158:
1.57 louis 6159: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
6160: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
6161: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 6162: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 6163:
1.247 jufi 6164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6165: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 6166: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 6167: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6168:
1.113 naddy 6169: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 6170:
1.247 jufi 6171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 6172: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
6173: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 6174: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 6175:
1.23 louis 6176: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
6177: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
6178: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
6179: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
6180: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 6181: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 6182:
1.247 jufi 6183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 6184: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
6185: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 6186: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 6187:
1.199 pvalchev 6188: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 6189: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
6190: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
6191: installation.
1.113 naddy 6192: <p>
1.47 louis 6193:
1.247 jufi 6194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6195: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 6196: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 6197: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6198:
1.301 jose 6199: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
6200: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
6201: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 6202: </ul>
1.57 louis 6203:
1.69 deraadt 6204: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6205: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6206:
1.247 jufi 6207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 6208: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 6209: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 6210: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 6211:
6212: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
6213: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 6214: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6215: <p>
1.12 louis 6216:
1.247 jufi 6217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 6218: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 6219: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 6220: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 6221:
6222: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
6223: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 6224: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
6225: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
6226: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
6227: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
6228: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 6229: <p>
1.247 jufi 6230: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 6231:
1.69 deraadt 6232: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6233: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 6234:
1.247 jufi 6235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 6236: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 6237: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 6238:
6239: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
6240: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
6241: available."
1.113 naddy 6242: <p>
1.301 jose 6243:
6244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6245: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
6246: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
6247: </strong></font><br>
6248:
6249: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
6250: <p>
1.247 jufi 6251: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 6252:
1.69 deraadt 6253: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6254: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6255:
1.247 jufi 6256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 6257: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 6258: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 6259:
6260: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
6261: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
6262: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
6263: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
6264: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 6265: <p>
1.33 louis 6266:
1.247 jufi 6267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6268: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 6269: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 6270: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6271:
1.113 naddy 6272: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
6273: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 6274: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
6275: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
6276: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 6277: <p>
1.247 jufi 6278: </ul>
1.57 louis 6279:
1.69 deraadt 6280: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6281: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6282:
1.247 jufi 6283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6284: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 6285: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 6286: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6287:
6288: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
6289: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 6290: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6291:
1.247 jufi 6292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 6293: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
6294: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
6295: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 6296: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 6297:
6298: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 6299: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 6300:
1.247 jufi 6301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6302: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6303:
1.113 naddy 6304: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 6305:
1.247 jufi 6306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6307: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 6308: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 6309: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6310:
6311: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 6312: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 6313: </ul>
1.23 louis 6314:
1.69 deraadt 6315: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6316: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6317:
1.247 jufi 6318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 6319: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 6320: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6321:
6322: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
6323: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 6324: <p>
1.2 deraadt 6325:
1.247 jufi 6326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6327: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 6328: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 6329: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6330:
6331: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
6332: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 6333: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 6334: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 6335: </ul>
1.57 louis 6336:
1.69 deraadt 6337: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6338: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6339:
1.247 jufi 6340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6341: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 6342: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 6343: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 6344:
6345: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
6346: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
6347: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
6348: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6349: <p>
1.15 louis 6350:
1.247 jufi 6351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6352: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
6353: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 6354: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6355:
6356: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
6357: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
6358: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
6359: columns."
1.113 naddy 6360: <p>
1.247 jufi 6361: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6362:
1.69 deraadt 6363: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6364: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6365:
1.247 jufi 6366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6367: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 6368: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 6369: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 6370:
6371: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 6372: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 6373:
1.113 naddy 6374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6375: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 6376: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6377:
6378: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
6379: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 6380: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 6381: </ul>
1.57 louis 6382:
1.69 deraadt 6383: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6384: <ul>
1.301 jose 6385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6386: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
6387: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6388: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
6389:
6390: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
6391: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
6392: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
6393: <p>
6394:
6395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6396: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
6397: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6398: Nov 13, 1998 and
6399: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
6400: Datateknik</a>,
6401: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
6402:
1.380 saad 6403: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 6404: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
6405: explains the licensing issues and points to our
6406: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
6407: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6408:
1.113 naddy 6409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6410: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 6411: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 6412: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6413:
1.222 miod 6414: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 6415: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
6416: Implementation, including a brief interview with
6417: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 6418: <p>
1.247 jufi 6419: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6420:
1.69 deraadt 6421: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6422: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6423:
1.247 jufi 6424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6425: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 6426: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6427:
1.69 deraadt 6428: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
6429: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 6430: <p>
1.247 jufi 6431: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6432:
1.69 deraadt 6433: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6434: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 6435:
1.247 jufi 6436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6437: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
6438: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 6439: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6440:
1.383 jcs 6441: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 6442: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 6443: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6444:
1.247 jufi 6445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 6446: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 6447: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
6448: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 6449: <p>
1.247 jufi 6450: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6451:
1.69 deraadt 6452: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6453: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6454:
1.247 jufi 6455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6456: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 6457: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
6458: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 6459: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 6460: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6461:
6462: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
6463: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
6464: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 6465: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 6466: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 6467: <p>
1.247 jufi 6468: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 6469:
6470: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6471: <ul>
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