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1.61      deraadt    19: "The mantra of any good security engineer is: "Security is not a
1.45      deraadt    20: product, but a process." It's more than designing strong cryptography
                     21: into a system; it's designing the entire system such that all security
                     22: measures, including cryptography, work together."<br>
                     23: <br>
                     24: -- Bruce Schneier, author of "Applied Cryptography".
                     25: <br clear=all>
1.37      deraadt    26: <h2><font color=#e00000>Cryptography</font><hr></h2>
1.32      deraadt    27:
                     28: <strong>Index</strong><br>
1.41      louis      29: <a href=#why>Why do we ship cryptography?</a>.<br>
1.47      provos     30: <a href=#ssh>OpenSSH</a>.<br>
1.32      deraadt    31: <a href=#prng>Pseudo Random Number Generators</a> (PRNG): ARC4, ...<br>
                     32: <a href=#hash>Cryptographic Hash Functions</a>: MD5, SHA1, ...<br>
                     33: <a href=#trans>Cryptographic Transforms</a>: DES, Blowfish, ...<br>
1.51      deraadt    34: <a href=#hardware>Cryptographic Hardware support</a><br>
1.32      deraadt    35: <a href=#people>International Cryptographers wanted</a><br>
1.33      deraadt    36: <a href=#papers>Further Reading</a><br>
1.1       deraadt    37: <p>
1.32      deraadt    38: <hr>
                     39:
                     40: <a name=why></a>
1.42      deraadt    41: <h3><font color=#e00000>Why do we ship cryptography?</font></h3><p>
1.32      deraadt    42:
                     43: In three words:  <strong>because we can</strong>.<p>
                     44:
1.1       deraadt    45: The OpenBSD project is based in Canada.<p>
                     46:
1.23      deraadt    47: The <a href=ECL.html>Export Control List of Canada</a>
                     48: places no significant restriction on the export of
1.5       deraadt    49: cryptographic software, and is even more explicit about the free
                     50: export of freely-available cryptographic software.  Marc Plumb has
                     51: done
1.2       deraadt    52: <a href=http://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/pages/doc/crypto-export.html>
1.31      aaron      53: some research to test the cryptographic laws</a>.
1.2       deraadt    54: <p>
1.1       deraadt    55:
1.3       deraadt    56: Hence the OpenBSD project has embedded cryptography into numerous places
                     57: in the operating system.  We require that the cryptographic software we
                     58: use be <a href=policy.html>freely available and with good licenses</a>.
1.32      deraadt    59: We do not directly use cryptography with nasty patents.
1.13      deraadt    60: We also require that such software is from countries with useful export
1.16      deraadt    61: licenses because we do not wish to break the laws of any country.
                     62: The cryptographic software components which we use currently were
                     63: written in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece, Norway, and
                     64: Sweden.
                     65: <p>
1.7       deraadt    66:
1.15      deraadt    67: When we create OpenBSD releases or snapshots we build our release
                     68: binaries in free countries to assure that the sources and binaries we
                     69: provide to users are free of tainting.  In the past our release binary
                     70: builds have been done in Canada, Sweden, and Germany.<p>
                     71:
1.85      hin        72: OpenBSD ships with Kerberos IV included.  The codebase
1.83      pvalchev   73: we use is the exportable KTH-based release from Sweden.  Our X11 source
                     74: has been extended to make use of Kerberos IV as well.<p>
                     75:
1.85      hin        76: The next release will ship with the Heimdal implementation of Kerberos V,
                     77: also from KTH in Sweden.
1.81      hin        78: <p>
1.16      deraadt    79:
1.67      deraadt    80:
1.66      deraadt    81: <img align=right src="images/vpnc-test-partner.gif">
1.87      brad       82: OpenBSD was the first operating system to ship with an IPsec stack.
                     83: We've been including IPsec since early OpenBSD 2.1 release in 1997.
                     84: Our fully conformant in-kernel IPsec stack, with hardware acceleration
1.66      deraadt    85: based on a number of cards, and our own free ISAKMP daemon, is used as
1.87      brad       86: one of the machines in the IPsec conformance testbed run by
1.67      deraadt    87: <a href="http://www.vpnc.org">VPNC</a>.
1.66      deraadt    88: <br clear=all>
                     89: <p>
                     90:
1.15      deraadt    91: Today cryptography is an important means for enhancing the <a
                     92: href=security.html>security</a> of an operating system.  The
1.42      deraadt    93: cryptography utilized in OpenBSD can be classified into various
                     94: aspects, described as follows.<p>
1.10      deraadt    95:
1.39      louis      96: <a name=ssh></a>
1.47      provos     97: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenSSH</font></h3><p>
1.39      louis      98:
1.40      deraadt    99: What is the first thing most people do after installing OpenBSD?
1.55      deraadt   100: They install Secure Shell
                    101: (<a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh>ssh</a>)
1.46      deraadt   102: from the ports tree or the packages on the FTP sites. Until now, that is.<p>
1.39      louis     103:
1.55      deraadt   104: As of the 2.6 release, OpenBSD contains
1.50      provos    105: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, an absolutely free and
                    106: patent unencumbered version of ssh.
1.55      deraadt   107: As of the OpenBSD 2.6 release date,
                    108: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a> interoperated with ssh
                    109: version 1 and had many added features,
1.47      provos    110: <ul>
                    111: <li>
1.88      brad      112: all components of a restrictive nature (i.e., patents, see
1.47      provos    113: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssl>ssl</a>))
1.55      deraadt   114: had been directly removed from the source code; any licensed or
                    115: patented components used external libraries.
1.47      provos    116: </li>
                    117: <li>
1.55      deraadt   118: had been updated to support ssh protocol 1.5.
1.47      provos    119: </li>
                    120: <li>
1.55      deraadt   121: contained added support for
1.47      provos    122: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=kerberos>kerberos</a>
                    123: authentication and ticket passing.
                    124: </li>
                    125: <li>
1.55      deraadt   126: supported one-time password authentication with
1.47      provos    127: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=skey>skey</a>.
                    128: </li>
                    129: </ul>
                    130: <p>
                    131:
1.55      deraadt   132: Roughly, we took a free license release of ssh and OpenBSD-ifyed it.
                    133: We get around the USA-based RSA patent by providing an easy way to
1.47      provos    134: automatically download and install a RSA-enabled package containing
                    135: shared library versions of libcrypto and libssl.  These packages are
                    136: based on OpenSSL.  People living outside the USA can freely use the
1.40      deraadt   137: RSA patented code, while people inside the USA can freely use it for
1.47      provos    138: non-commercial purposes.  It appears as if companies inside the USA
                    139: can use the RSA libraries too, as long as RSA is not used in a profit
                    140: generating role.<p>
1.39      louis     141:
1.55      deraadt   142: But this way almost everyone will get ssh built into their OS.<p>
                    143:
                    144: <strong>NEW!  OpenSSH supports protocol 2.0!</strong><p>
                    145:
                    146: Recently, we have extended OpenSSH so that it also does SSH 2 protocol.
                    147: Having a ssh daemon which can do all 3 major SSH protocols
                    148: (1.3, 1.5, 2.0) permits us much flexibility.  Protocol 2.0 does not
                    149: use RSA for it's public key cryptography, relying instead on the DH
                    150: and DSA algorithms.  In OpenBSD 2.7 -- which will ship with the new
                    151: OpenSSH -- you get protocol 2.0 support right out of the box!  If
                    152: you wish to also support protocol 1.3 and 1.5, you simply add the
                    153: RSA package (as described our
                    154: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssl>ssl</a>
                    155: manual page), and restart the daemon.
1.39      louis     156:
1.18      deraadt   157: <a name=prng></a>
1.42      deraadt   158: <h3><font color=#e00000>Pseudo Random Number Generators</font></h3><p>
1.32      deraadt   159:
1.10      deraadt   160: A Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) provides applications with a stream of
                    161: numbers which have certain important properties for system security:<p>
                    162:
                    163: <ul>
1.11      deraadt   164: <li>It should be impossible for an outsider to predict the output of the
                    165:        random number generator even with knowledge of previous output.
                    166: <li>The generated numbers should not have repeating patterns which means
                    167:        the PRNG should have a very long cycle length.
1.10      deraadt   168: </ul>
1.32      deraadt   169: <p>
1.10      deraadt   170:
1.13      deraadt   171: A PRNG is normally just an algorithm where the same initial starting
                    172: values will yield the same sequence of outputs. On a multiuser
                    173: operating system there are many sources which allow seeding the PRNG
                    174: with random data. The OpenBSD kernel uses the mouse interrupt timing,
                    175: network data interrupt latency, inter-keypress timing and disk IO
                    176: information to fill an entropy pool.  Random numbers are available for
                    177: kernel routines and are exported via devices to userland programs.
1.36      deraadt   178: So far random numbers are used in the following places:<p>
1.13      deraadt   179:
1.10      deraadt   180: <ul>
1.14      deraadt   181: <li>Dynamic sin_port allocation in bind(2).
                    182: <li>PIDs of processes.
1.26      aaron     183: <li>IP datagram IDs.
1.14      deraadt   184: <li>RPC transaction IDs (XID).
                    185: <li>NFS RPC transaction IDs (XID).
                    186: <li>DNS Query-IDs.
                    187: <li>Inode generation numbers, see getfh(2) and fsirand(8).
1.31      aaron     188: <li>Timing perturbance in traceroute(8).
1.14      deraadt   189: <li>Stronger temporary names for mktemp(3) and mkstemp(3)
                    190: <li>Randomness added to the TCP ISS value for protection against
                    191:        spoofing attacks.
1.87      brad      192: <li>random padding in IPsec esp_old packets.
1.14      deraadt   193: <li>To generate salts for the various password algorithms.
                    194: <li>For generating fake S/Key challenges.
1.44      provos    195: <li>In <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/photuris/>photurisd</a>
1.28      angelos   196:         and <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd>isakmpd</a>
                    197:        to provide liveness proof of key exchanges.
1.10      deraadt   198: </ul>
1.1       deraadt   199:
1.10      deraadt   200: <p>
1.18      deraadt   201: <a name=hash></a>
1.42      deraadt   202: <h3><font color=#e00000>Cryptographic Hash Functions</font></h3><p>
1.32      deraadt   203:
1.10      deraadt   204: A Hash Function compresses its input data to a string of
1.36      deraadt   205: constant size. For a Cryptographic Hash Function it is infeasible to find:
                    206:
1.1       deraadt   207: <ul>
1.11      deraadt   208: <li>two inputs which have the same output (collision resistant),
                    209: <li>a different input for a given input with the same output
                    210:        (2nd preimage resistant).
1.1       deraadt   211: </ul>
1.32      deraadt   212: <p>
1.10      deraadt   213:
1.12      millert   214: In OpenBSD MD5, SHA1, and RIPEMD-160 are used as Cryptographic Hash Functions,
1.36      deraadt   215: e.g:<p>
1.10      deraadt   216: <ul>
1.27      deraadt   217: <li>In <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=skey>S/Key</a>
                    218:     to provide one time passwords.
1.87      brad      219: <li>In <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec>IPsec</a>,
1.44      provos    220:     <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/photuris/>photurisd</a>
1.27      deraadt   221:     and
                    222:     <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd>isakmpd(8)</a>
                    223:     to authenticate the data origin of packets and to ensure packet integrity.
                    224: <li>For FreeBSD-style MD5 passwords (not enabled by default), see
                    225:     <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=passwd.conf&sektion=5>
                    226:     passwd.conf(5)</a>
                    227: <li>For TCP SYN cookie support (not enabled by default), see
                    228:     <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=options&sektion=4>
                    229:     options(4)</a>
1.24      niklas    230: <li>In libssl for digital signing of messages.
1.10      deraadt   231: </ul>
1.32      deraadt   232: <p>
1.10      deraadt   233:
1.6       deraadt   234: <p>
1.71      jufi      235: <a name="trans"></a>
1.42      deraadt   236: <h3><font color=#e00000>Cryptographic Transforms</font></h3><p>
1.32      deraadt   237:
1.11      deraadt   238: Cryptographic Transforms are used to encrypt and decrypt data. These
                    239: are normally used with an encryption key for data encryption and with
                    240: a decryption key for data decryption. The security of a Cryptographic
                    241: Transform should rely only on the keying material.<p>
1.6       deraadt   242:
1.24      niklas    243: OpenBSD provides transforms like DES, 3DES, Blowfish and Cast for the
1.36      deraadt   244: kernel and userland programs, which are used in many places like:<p>
1.10      deraadt   245: <ul>
1.27      deraadt   246: <li>In libc for creating
1.71      jufi      247:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=blf_key">Blowfish</a>
                    248:     passwords.  See also the <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">USENIX paper</a>
1.33      deraadt   249:     on this topic.
1.27      deraadt   250: <li>In
1.87      brad      251:     <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec>IPsec</a>
1.27      deraadt   252:     to provide confidentiality for the network layer.
                    253: <li>In Kerberos and a handful of kerberized applications, like
                    254:     <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=telnet>telnet</a>,
                    255:     <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs>cvs</a>,
                    256:     <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rsh>rsh</a>,
                    257:     <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rcp>rcp</a>,
                    258:     and
                    259:     <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rlogin>rlogin</a>.
1.44      provos    260: <li>In <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/photuris/>
1.27      deraadt   261:     photurisd</a> and
                    262:     <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd>isakmpd</a>
1.87      brad      263:     to protect the exchanges where IPsec key material is negotiated.
1.24      niklas    264: <li>In AFS to protect the messages passing over the network, providing
1.27      deraadt   265:     confidentiality of remote filesystem access.
1.24      niklas    266: <li>In libssl to let applications communicate over the de-facto standard
                    267:        cryptographically secure SSL protocol.
1.10      deraadt   268: </ul>
1.1       deraadt   269:
1.10      deraadt   270: <p>
1.51      deraadt   271: <a name=hardware></a>
                    272: <h3><font color=#e00000>Cryptographic Hardware Support</font></h3><p>
                    273:
1.58      louis     274: OpenBSD, starting with 2.7, has begun supporting some cryptography hardware
                    275: such as accelerators and random number generators.
1.51      deraadt   276: <ul>
1.87      brad      277: <li><b>IPsec crypto dequeue</b><br>
                    278:     Our IPsec stack has been modified so that cryptographic functions get
                    279:     done out-of-line.  Most simple software IPsec stacks need to do
1.82      pvalchev  280:     cryptography when processing each packet.  This results in synchronous
1.73      aaron     281:     performance.  To use hardware properly and speedily one needs to separate
1.51      deraadt   282:     these two components, as we have done.  Actually, doing this gains some
                    283:     performance even for the software case.
                    284: <p>
1.80      deraadt   285: <li><b><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hifn&sektion=4">
1.88      brad      286:     Hifn 7751</a></b><br>
                    287:     Cards using the Hifn 7751 can be used as a symmetric cryptographic
                    288:     accelerator (i.e., <a href="http://www.powercrypt.com">PowerCrypt</a>).
1.51      deraadt   289:     Current performance using a single Hifn 7751 on each end of a tunnel
1.88      brad      290:     is 64Mbit/sec for 3DES/SHA1 ESP, nearly a 600% improvement over
                    291:     using a P3/550 CPU.  Further improvements are under way to resolve a
1.51      deraadt   292:     few more issues, but as of April 13, 2000 the code is considered
1.53      deraadt   293:     stable.  We wrote our own driver for supporting this chip, rather
                    294:     than using the (USA-written)
1.88      brad      295:     <a href="http://www.powercrypt.com">PowerCrypt</a> driver, as well
1.87      brad      296:     our driver links in properly to the IPsec stack.
1.53      deraadt   297:     The 7751 is now considered slow by industry standards and many vendors
1.88      brad      298:     have faster chips (even Hifn now has a faster but more expensive
1.89    ! jufi      299:     chip).  Peak performance with 3DES SHA1 ESP is around 64Mbit/sec.
1.60      deraadt   300:     <p>
1.88      brad      301:     (As an aside, Hifn was a difficult company to deal with; they even
1.60      deraadt   302:     threatened to sue us over our non-USA reverse engineering of their
                    303:     crypto unlock algorithm).
1.53      deraadt   304:     <p>
1.69      deraadt   305:
                    306: <li><b>Hifn 6500</b><br>
1.86      brad      307:     This device is an asymmetric crypto unit.  It has support for RSA, DSA,
1.69      deraadt   308:     and DH algorithms, as well as other major big number functions.  It also
                    309:     contains a very high performance random number generator.  We have one
                    310:     device, full documention, and sample code.  Development has not yet
                    311:     started.
                    312:     <p>
                    313:
1.80      deraadt   314: <li><b><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ubsec&sektion=4">
                    315:     Broadcom BCM5805 (or beta chip Bluesteelnet 5501)</a></b><br>
1.65      deraadt   316:     Just after the OpenBSD 2.7 release, we succeeded at adding preliminary
                    317:     support for these early release parts provided to us by the vendor,
1.76      deraadt   318:     specifically starting with the test chip 5501.
1.69      deraadt   319:     These devices provide the highest performance symmetric cryptography
                    320:     we have seen.
                    321:     <p>
1.59      deraadt   322:     Bluesteelnet was bought by Broadcom and started making real parts.
1.84      pvalchev  323:     Their new BCM5805 is similar, except that they also add an asymmetric
1.65      deraadt   324:     engine for running DSA, RSA, and other such algorithms.  With approximate
1.88      brad      325:     performance starting at more than four times as fast as the Hifn,
1.65      deraadt   326:     hopefully this chip will become more common soon.
1.60      deraadt   327:     <p>
                    328:     The Broadcom/Bluesteelnet people have been great to deal with.  They gave
1.69      deraadt   329:     us complete documentation and sample code for their chips and a
                    330:     sufficient number of cards to test with.
1.60      deraadt   331:     <p>
1.74      deraadt   332:     Post 2.8, this driver was also modified to generate random numbers on
                    333:     the BCM5805 and similar versions, and feed that data into the kernel
                    334:     entropy pool.
                    335:     <p>
1.60      deraadt   336:
1.80      deraadt   337: <li><b><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ises&sektion=4">
1.88      brad      338:     Securealink PCC-ISES</a></b><br>
                    339:     The <a href="http://www.securealink.com/pcc-ises.html">PCC-ISES</a> is
                    340:     a new chipset from the Netherlands.  We have received sample hardware
                    341:     and documentation, and work on a driver is in progress.  At the moment,
                    342:     the driver is capable of feeding random numbers into the kernel entropy
                    343:     pool.
1.60      deraadt   344:     <p>
                    345:
1.88      brad      346: <li><b>SafeNet SafeXcel 2141</b><br>
1.60      deraadt   347:     We have received documentation and sample hardware for the
1.88      brad      348:     <a href="http://www.safenet-inc.com/technology/chips/Chip2141.asp">SafeNet</a>
1.72      deraadt   349:     crypto cards.  Work to support at least the symmetric cryptography of
                    350:     these devices has started.
1.57      deraadt   351:     <p>
                    352:
1.80      deraadt   353: <li><b><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=txp&sektion=4">
                    354:     3com 3c990</a></b><br>
1.77      deraadt   355:     3com gave us a driver to support the ethernet component of this chipset,
1.79      ericj     356:     and based on that, we have written our own ethernet driver. This driver
                    357:     has now been integrated once we were able to get a free license on the
1.88      brad      358:     microcode. We have also received the information needed for supporting
                    359:     the cryptographic functions, which will require a little bit of IPsec
                    360:     subsystem rearranging. Check back later..
1.69      deraadt   361:     <p>
                    362:
1.87      brad      363: <li><b>Intel IPsec card</b><br>
1.77      deraadt   364:     Much like Intel does for all their networking division components, and
                    365:     completely unlike most other vendors, Intel steadfastly refuse to provide
                    366:     us with documentation.  We have talked to about five technical people who
                    367:     are involved in the development of those products.  They all want us to
                    368:     have documentation.  They commend us on what we have done.  But their hands
                    369:     are tied by management who does not perceive a benefit to themselves for
                    370:     providing documentation.  Forget about Intel.  (If you want to buy gigabit
                    371:     ethernet hardware, we recommend anything else... for the same reason:
                    372:     most drivers we have for Intel networking hardware were written without
                    373:     documentation).
1.52      deraadt   374:     <p>
1.69      deraadt   375:
1.80      deraadt   376: <li><b><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pchb&sektion=4">
                    377:     Intel 82802AB/82802AC Firmware Hub RNG</a></b><br>
1.74      deraadt   378:     The 82802 FWH chip (found on i810, i820, i840, i850, and i860 motherboards)
1.87      brad      379:     contains a random number generator (RNG).  High-performance IPsec
1.74      deraadt   380:     requires more random number entropy.  As of April 10, 2000, we support
                    381:     the RNG.  We will add support for other RNG's found on crypto chips.
1.69      deraadt   382:     <p>
                    383:
1.52      deraadt   384: <li><b>OpenSSL</b><br>
                    385:     We have grand schemes for supporting crypto cards that can do RSA or DSA,
                    386:     and exporting the functions of all crypto cards to OpenSSL so that
1.88      brad      387:     userland programs (i.e., <a href="http://www.openssh.com">ssh</a>,
1.52      deraadt   388:     <a href="http://www.modssl.org/">apache https</a>, etc)
                    389:     can benefit.
1.51      deraadt   390: </ul>
                    391:
                    392: <p>
1.69      deraadt   393: <b>If people wish to help with writing drivers,
                    394: <a href=#people>come and help us</a>.</b>
                    395:
                    396: <p>
1.32      deraadt   397: <a name=people></a>
1.42      deraadt   398: <h3><font color=#e00000>International Cryptographers Wanted</font></h3><p>
1.32      deraadt   399:
                    400: Of course, our project needs people to work on these systems.  If any
                    401: non-American cryptographer who meets the constraints listed earlier is
                    402: interested in helping out with embedded cryptography in OpenBSD,
                    403: please contact us.<p>
                    404:
1.33      deraadt   405: <p>
                    406: <a name=papers></a>
1.42      deraadt   407: <h3><font color=#e00000>Further Reading</font></h3><p>
1.33      deraadt   408:
                    409: A number of papers have been written by OpenBSD team members, about
                    410: cryptographic changes they have done in OpenBSD.  The postscript
1.34      deraadt   411: versions of these documents are available as follows.<p>
1.33      deraadt   412:
                    413: <ul>
1.43      deraadt   414: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.49      deraadt   415:     <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.71      jufi      416:     by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.43      deraadt   417:     <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
1.33      deraadt   418:     <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
                    419:     <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.43      deraadt   420: <p>
                    421: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.49      deraadt   422:     <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.43      deraadt   423:     by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
                    424:     <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
                    425:     <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
                    426:     <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
                    427:     <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.33      deraadt   428:     <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
                    429:     <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.62      niklas    430: <p>
                    431: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange (IKE).<br>
                    432:     <a href=events.html#usenix2000>Usenix 2000</a>,
                    433:     by <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a> and
                    434:     <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>.<br>
                    435:     <a href=papers/ikepaper.ps>paper</a> and
                    436:     <a href=papers/ikeslides.ps>slides</a>.
1.63      deraadt   437: <p>
                    438: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
                    439:     <a href=events.html#sec2000>Usenix Security 2000</a>,
                    440:     <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.64      provos    441:     <a href=papers/swapencrypt.ps>paper</a> and
                    442:     <a href=papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.33      deraadt   443: </ul>
                    444:
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