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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
1.65 jufi 19: href="#com">companies</a> and organizations 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>
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1.56 louis 37: <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="edu">Research and other Non-Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
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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
1.72 miod 45: Virtual Private Networks (IPsec) between its sections around the world.<p>
1.50 louis 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>
1.65 jufi 57: There are two additional OpenBSD computers, in our development area. One of
1.58 louis 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:
1.66 jufi 69: <li><a href="http://www.hus.fi/group/">Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland</a><br>
70: The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), with staff totaling approx. 18.000,
71: provides specialized medical care for the residents of the capital and other member
72: local authorities. OpenBSD is used for DNS, mail gateway, VPN and firewall solutions both
73: on the internal campus network and on the Internet.
74: <p>
75:
1.60 louis 76: <li><u>INFN Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, Florence, Italy</u><br>
77: This non-profit government research and academic institution uses OpenBSD
78: for domain name service and IPF firewall packet filtering.
79: <p>
80:
1.56 louis 81: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
82: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
83: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
84: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
85: <p>
1.43 deraadt 86:
1.53 louis 87: <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
88: México</a><br>
89: El Consejo Estatal Electoral del Estado de Sonora usa OpenBSD para proteger
1.56 louis 90: sus sistemas, estas aplicaciones estan en linea a traves de Internet, dando
1.53 louis 91: resultados electorales al usuario, su red privada esta protegida por
92: usuarios internos y externos.<br>
93: <i>This government agency uses OpenBSD as a means to protect its
94: network as well as for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD based VPN
95: provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.</i>
96: <p>
97:
1.56 louis 98: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
99: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
100: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
101: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
102: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
103: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
104: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
105: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
106: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
107: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
108: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
109: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
110:
111: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
112: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
113: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
114: for many intensive research projects.
115: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
116: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
117: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
118: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
119: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
120: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
121: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
122: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
123: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
124: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
125: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
126: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
127: their primary operating system. <p>
128:
129: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
130: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
131: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
132: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
133: processing each month.<p>
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1.56 louis 135: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
136: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
137: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 138: <p>
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142: <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
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1.56 louis 144: <dl>
145: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
146: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
147: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 148:
1.43 deraadt 149: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
150: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 151: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 152: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 153:
1.43 deraadt 154: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
155: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
156: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 157: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 158: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
159: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 160: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
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1.56 louis 162: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
163: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
164: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
165: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
166: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
167: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
168: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
169: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
170: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
171: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
172: committed to."<p>
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1.56 louis 174: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
175: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
176: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
177: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
178: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
179: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 180:
1.56 louis 181: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
182: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
183: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
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1.56 louis 185: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
186: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
187: TIMEngine ™. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
188: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
189: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
190: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
191: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
192: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
193: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
194: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
195: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.
196: <p>
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1.56 louis 200: <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
201: <p>
202: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
203: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
204: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
205: many, if not most, of their services.
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1.71 ian 208: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70 ian 209: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.71 ian 210: services. All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
1.70 ian 211: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.
212: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
213: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
214: <p>
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1.56 louis 216: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
217: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
218: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
219: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68 jsyn 220: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56 louis 221: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
222: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 223: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
224: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
225: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
226: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
227: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
228: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
229: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
230: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
231: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 232: <p>
233:
234: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
235: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
236: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
237: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
238: sites such as
239: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
240: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
241: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 242:
1.43 deraadt 243: <li><a href=http://www.crown.net>Crown.Net</a><br>
244: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 245: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
246: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
247: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 248: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
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1.56 louis 250: <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
251: Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
252: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
253: <p>
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1.56 louis 255: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
256: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72 miod 257: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 258: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
259: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
260: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
261: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
262: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 263: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
264: handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
265: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<P>
1.27 ian 266:
1.63 louis 267: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
268: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
269: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
270: <p>
271:
1.43 deraadt 272: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73 ian 273: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74 ! ian 274: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73 ian 275: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
276: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
277: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
278: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43 deraadt 279: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
280: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 281: <p>
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1.56 louis 283: <li><a href="http://www.hurontario.net">Hurontario.net</a><br>
284: In the Headwaters region of Ontario, Canada, Hurontario.net uses OpenBSD
285: on several of their own and their customers' machines.
286: <p>
287:
288: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
289: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
290: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
291: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
292: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
293: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
294: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
295: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
296: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
297:
298: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
299: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
300: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
301: sites.<p>
302:
303: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
304: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
305: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
306: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
307: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
308: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
309: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
310: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
311:
312: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
313: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
314: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
315: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
316: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
317: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
318: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
319: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
320: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
321: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
322: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
323:
1.61 louis 324: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
325: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
326: <p>
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1.56 louis 328: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
329: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
330: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
331: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
332: their business DSL customers.
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