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1.41 deraadt 10: <h2><font color=#e00000>Users</font><hr></h2>
1.47 ian 11: The term "users" has several connotations. <EM>End users</EM> often
12: want to meet other users of the system, to share ideas, problems and solutions,
13: and discuss the system over a meal or a beer. One of the best ways to do this
14: is with one of our
15: <a href="groups.html">User Groups worldwide</a>.
16: <p>
17: Another connotation of the term is "who is using the system, and for what?",
1.56 louis 18: and that is the subject of the rest of this page. These <a
19: href="#com">companies</a> and organisations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit
1.38 louis 20: and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls,
1.56 louis 21: intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers.
22: <a href="#edu">University researchers</a> and IT department developers often
23: have similar security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.
24: Many <a href="#isp">Internet Service Providers</a> find OpenBSD's
25: security features hard to resist.
26: <p>
1.38 louis 27:
28: If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to
29: <a href="mailto:press@openbsd.org">press@openbsd.org</a> .
30: <br><br>
31:
32: <i><b>NOTE:</b> For reasons of security, companies can ask us to withhold
33: their names, or those of their clients. They would then appear as
34: "Undisclosed Company".</i><br><br>
1.1 jkatz 35: <hr>
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1.56 louis 37: <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="edu">Research and other Non-Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.43 deraadt 38: <dl>
1.27 ian 39:
1.50 louis 40: <li><a href="http://www.amnesty.org/">Amnesty International</a><br>
41: Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works
42: to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of
43: Human Rights and other international standards.
44: Amnesty International is using OpenBSD for network firewalls and for
45: Virtual Private Networks (IPSec) between its sections around the world.<p>
46:
1.56 louis 47: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
48: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
49: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
50: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
51: <p>
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1.57 ! louis 53: <li><a href="http://vorpal.mcs.drexel.edu/">Justin Smith</a>, Drexel
! 54: University<br> Justin Smith teaches in the department of Mathematics and
! 55: Computer Science at Drexel University. He writes: <br>
! 56: <i>"After several break-ins, I converted my system from Linux to OpenBSD. Now
! 57: it runs all the software I used to use in Linux, including a full-featured
! 58: desktop (Helix Gnome), research and productivity software; Web pages for
! 59: courses I teach; and software to administer and grade exams (the break-ins on
! 60: my old Linux system always occurred during exam times). I was also attracted to
! 61: OpenBSD because of the superiority of its UVM virtual memory algorithm (also
! 62: used by NetBSD)."</i>
! 63: <p>
! 64:
1.53 louis 65: <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
66: México</a><br>
67: El Consejo Estatal Electoral del Estado de Sonora usa OpenBSD para proteger
1.56 louis 68: sus sistemas, estas aplicaciones estan en linea a traves de Internet, dando
1.53 louis 69: resultados electorales al usuario, su red privada esta protegida por
70: usuarios internos y externos.<br>
71: <i>This government agency uses OpenBSD as a means to protect its
72: network as well as for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD based VPN
73: provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.</i>
74: <p>
75:
1.56 louis 76: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
77: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
78: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
79: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
80: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
81: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
82: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
83: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
84: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
85: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
86: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
87: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
88:
89: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
90: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
91: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
92: for many intensive research projects.
93: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
94: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
95: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
96: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
97: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
98: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
99: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
100: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
101: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
102: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
103: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
104: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
105: their primary operating system. <p>
106:
107: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
108: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
109: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
110: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
111: processing each month.<p>
1.55 louis 112:
1.56 louis 113: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
114: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
115: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 116: <p>
117:
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119:
120: <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.44 deraadt 121:
1.56 louis 122: <dl>
123: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
124: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
125: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 126:
1.43 deraadt 127: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
128: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 129: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 130: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 131:
1.43 deraadt 132: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
133: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
134: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 135: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 136: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
137: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 138: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
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1.56 louis 140: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
141: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
142: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
143: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
144: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
145: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
146: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
147: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
148: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
149: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
150: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 151:
1.56 louis 152: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
153: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
154: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
155: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
156: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
157: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 158:
159: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX Incorporated</a><br>
160: This vendor produces an OpenBSD derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended
161: system solution. RTMX fully re-implemented previously developed
162: in-house IEEE POSIX realtime extensions using OpenBSD as a root source
163: tree. Nearly all of the IEEE POSIX extensions have been
164: added. Currently all OpenBSD features are supported, but only on the
165: m68k, MIPS and PowerPC cpu types. Pentium and Alpha cpu versions are
166: to be released soon. RTMX Inc. is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and
167: has ported Motif 1.2.3 to most of the supported platforms.<p>
168:
1.56 louis 169: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
170: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
171: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
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1.56 louis 173: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
174: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
175: TIMEngine ™. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
176: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
177: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
178: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
179: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
180: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
181: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
182: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
183: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.
184: <p>
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1.1 jkatz 187:
1.56 louis 188: <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
189: <p>
190: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
191: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
192: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
193: many, if not most, of their services.
194: <dl>
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1.56 louis 196: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
197: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
198: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
199: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
200: LDAP Authentification Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
201: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
202: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
203: and maxfiles, but it runs great on hardware that's not so speedy. We are using
204: AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have some
205: internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all sorts of
206: other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD, especially our
207: firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed source software, but
208: we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's behaviour under high load,
209: especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't compare to the Linux we used before
210: - Linux went extremely slow, while OpenBSD doesn't even care (same
211: hardware!)"</i>.
212: <p>
213:
214: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
215: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
216: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
217: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
218: sites such as
219: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
220: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
221: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 222:
1.43 deraadt 223: <li><a href=http://www.crown.net>Crown.Net</a><br>
224: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 225: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
226: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
227: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 228: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
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1.56 louis 230: <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
231: Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
232: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
233: <p>
1.25 angelos 234:
1.56 louis 235: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
236: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
237: for routing, firewalling, IPSec/VPN, <A
238: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
239: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
240: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
241: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
242: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
243: co-location customers and business park tenants.<P>
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1.43 deraadt 245: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
246: This ISP uses OpenBSD to run their free shell server, as well as other
247: systems. The shell server, a single AMD K6/233, handles well over
248: 10,000 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
249: problems with other operating systems", says Hobbiton's Leif
250: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
251: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 252: <p>
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1.56 louis 254: <li><a href="http://www.hurontario.net">Hurontario.net</a><br>
255: In the Headwaters region of Ontario, Canada, Hurontario.net uses OpenBSD
256: on several of their own and their customers' machines.
257: <p>
258:
259: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
260: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
261: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
262: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
263: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
264: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
265: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
266: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
267: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
268:
269: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
270: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
271: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
272: sites.<p>
273:
274: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
275: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
276: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
277: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
278: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
279: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
280: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
281: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
282:
283: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
284: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
285: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
286: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
287: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
288: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
289: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
290: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
291: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
292: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
293: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
294:
295: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
296: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
297: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
298: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
299: their business DSL customers.
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