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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:
1.59 jufi 47: <li><A HREF="http://www.iztacala.unam.mx">ENEP Iztacala</A><br>
1.58 louis 48: ENEP Iztacala is one of <A HREF="http://www.unam.mx">UNAM</A>'s peripheral
49: schools. UNAM is Mexico's largest University, with over 250,000 students,
50: and at ENEP Iztacala we have a bit over 10,000 students. This is mostly
51: a health-oriented campus, so the computer area is not a big one.
52: <br>
53: We run as servers currently two OpenBSD, one Solaris and two Linux boxes.
54: With OpenBSD we handle the main web site (happily running on a 7-year old
55: Sparcstation 5), part of our mail accounts and our firewall.
56: <br>
57: There are two aditional OpenBSD computers, in our development area. One of
58: them acts as a network monitor (using Snort) and will shortly be moved to
59: sit next to the firewall, and the other one serves as an OpenBSD CVS
60: mirror (<strong>CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.mx.openbsd.org:/cvs</strong>).
61: <br>
62: We do not do run very creative stuff, we just use OpenBSD for what it does
63: best: run smoothly, even on older hardware, freeing us from most concerns
64: and doubts we have about our other operating systems.
65: <br>
66: We also host a Spanish OpenBSD mailing list (openbsd@tlali.iztacala.unam.mx).
67: <p>
68:
1.60 louis 69: <li><u>INFN Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, Florence, Italy</u><br>
70: This non-profit government research and academic institution uses OpenBSD
71: for domain name service and IPF firewall packet filtering.
72: <p>
73:
1.56 louis 74: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
75: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
76: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
77: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
78: <p>
1.43 deraadt 79:
1.57 louis 80: <li><a href="http://vorpal.mcs.drexel.edu/">Justin Smith</a>, Drexel
81: University<br> Justin Smith teaches in the department of Mathematics and
82: Computer Science at Drexel University. He writes: <br>
83: <i>"After several break-ins, I converted my system from Linux to OpenBSD. Now
84: it runs all the software I used to use in Linux, including a full-featured
85: desktop (Helix Gnome), research and productivity software; Web pages for
86: courses I teach; and software to administer and grade exams (the break-ins on
87: my old Linux system always occurred during exam times). I was also attracted to
88: OpenBSD because of the superiority of its UVM virtual memory algorithm (also
89: used by NetBSD)."</i>
90: <p>
91:
1.53 louis 92: <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
93: México</a><br>
94: El Consejo Estatal Electoral del Estado de Sonora usa OpenBSD para proteger
1.56 louis 95: sus sistemas, estas aplicaciones estan en linea a traves de Internet, dando
1.53 louis 96: resultados electorales al usuario, su red privada esta protegida por
97: usuarios internos y externos.<br>
98: <i>This government agency uses OpenBSD as a means to protect its
99: network as well as for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD based VPN
100: provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.</i>
101: <p>
102:
1.56 louis 103: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
104: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
105: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
106: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
107: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
108: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
109: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
110: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
111: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
112: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
113: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
114: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
115:
116: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
117: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
118: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
119: for many intensive research projects.
120: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
121: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
122: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
123: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
124: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
125: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
126: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
127: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
128: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
129: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
130: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
131: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
132: their primary operating system. <p>
133:
134: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
135: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
136: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
137: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
138: processing each month.<p>
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1.56 louis 140: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
141: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
142: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 143: <p>
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146:
147: <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.44 deraadt 148:
1.56 louis 149: <dl>
150: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
151: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
152: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 153:
1.43 deraadt 154: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
155: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 156: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 157: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 158:
1.43 deraadt 159: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
160: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
161: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 162: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 163: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
164: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 165: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43 deraadt 166:
1.56 louis 167: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
168: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
169: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
170: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
171: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
172: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
173: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
174: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
175: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
176: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
177: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 178:
1.56 louis 179: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
180: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
181: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
182: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
183: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
184: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 185:
186: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX Incorporated</a><br>
187: This vendor produces an OpenBSD derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended
188: system solution. RTMX fully re-implemented previously developed
189: in-house IEEE POSIX realtime extensions using OpenBSD as a root source
190: tree. Nearly all of the IEEE POSIX extensions have been
191: added. Currently all OpenBSD features are supported, but only on the
192: m68k, MIPS and PowerPC cpu types. Pentium and Alpha cpu versions are
193: to be released soon. RTMX Inc. is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and
194: has ported Motif 1.2.3 to most of the supported platforms.<p>
195:
1.56 louis 196: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
197: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
198: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12 ivan 199:
1.56 louis 200: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
201: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
202: TIMEngine ™. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
203: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
204: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
205: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
206: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
207: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
208: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
209: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
210: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.
211: <p>
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1.1 jkatz 214:
1.56 louis 215: <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
216: <p>
217: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
218: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
219: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
220: many, if not most, of their services.
221: <dl>
1.18 deraadt 222:
1.56 louis 223: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
224: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
225: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
226: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
227: LDAP Authentification Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
228: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
229: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 230: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
231: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
232: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
233: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
234: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
235: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
236: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
237: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
238: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 239: <p>
240:
241: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
242: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
243: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
244: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
245: sites such as
246: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
247: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
248: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 249:
1.43 deraadt 250: <li><a href=http://www.crown.net>Crown.Net</a><br>
251: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 252: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
253: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
254: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 255: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24 deraadt 256:
1.56 louis 257: <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
258: Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
259: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
260: <p>
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1.56 louis 262: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
263: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.62 chris 264: for routing, firewalling, IPSec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 265: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
266: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
267: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
268: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
269: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 270: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
271: handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
272: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<P>
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1.63 ! louis 274: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
! 275: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
! 276: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
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1.43 deraadt 279: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
280: This ISP uses OpenBSD to run their free shell server, as well as other
281: systems. The shell server, a single AMD K6/233, handles well over
282: 10,000 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
283: problems with other operating systems", says Hobbiton's Leif
284: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
285: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 286: <p>
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1.56 louis 288: <li><a href="http://www.hurontario.net">Hurontario.net</a><br>
289: In the Headwaters region of Ontario, Canada, Hurontario.net uses OpenBSD
290: on several of their own and their customers' machines.
291: <p>
292:
293: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
294: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
295: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
296: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
297: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
298: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
299: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
300: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
301: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
302:
303: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
304: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
305: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
306: sites.<p>
307:
308: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
309: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
310: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
311: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
312: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
313: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
314: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
315: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
316:
317: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
318: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
319: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
320: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
321: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
322: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
323: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
324: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
325: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
326: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
327: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
328:
1.61 louis 329: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
330: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
331: <p>
332:
1.56 louis 333: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
334: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
335: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
336: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
337: their business DSL customers.
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