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15: <i><font color="#0000ff">Open</font></i><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
16: <font color="#e00000">Innovations</font>
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1.32 tj 19: <p>
20:
21: This is a list of software developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project,
22: sorted in order of introduction, approximately.
1.1 schwarze 23:
1.16 deraadt 24: <p>
1.32 tj 25: <hr>
1.1 schwarze 26:
1.16 deraadt 27: <h3>Programs and subsystems</h3>
1.1 schwarze 28:
29: <ul>
1.29 beck 30: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ypbind.8">ypbind(8)</a>,
31: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ypset.8">ypset(8)</a>,
32: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/ypcat.1">ypcat(1)</a>,
33: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/ypmatch.1">ypmatch(1)</a>,
34: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/ypwhich.1">ypwhich(1)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 35: Started by Theo de Raadt.
1.20 bentley 36: Imported April 26, 1993 and first released with NetBSD 0.9.
1.29 beck 37: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ypserv.8">ypserv(8)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 38: Started by Mats O. Jansson in 1994.
39: Imported October 23, 1995 and first released with OpenBSD 2.0.
1.29 beck 40: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/mopd.8">mopd(8)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 41: Started by Mats O. Jansson in 1993.
42: Imported September 21, 1996 and first released with OpenBSD 2.0.
1.35 tb 43: <li><a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>:
1.1 schwarze 44: Designed and implemented by Chuck Cranor and Theo de Raadt in 1995
1.35 tb 45: (<a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf">paper</a>,
46: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.pdf">slides</a>)
1.29 beck 47: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/aucat.1">aucat(1)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 48: Started by Kenneth Stailey.
49: Imported January 2, 1997 and first released with OpenBSD 2.1.
1.16 deraadt 50: Now maintained by Alexandre Ratchov.
1.22 schwarze 51: <li><a href="http://www.openssh.org/">OpenSSH</a>
1.29 beck 52: including <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>,
53: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/scp.1">scp(1)</a>,
54: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/sftp.1">sftp(1)</a>,
55: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/ssh-add.1">ssh-add(1)</a>,
56: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/ssh-agent.1">ssh-agent(1)</a>,
57: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>,
58: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>,
59: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/sftp-server.8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 60: Started by Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Dug Song, Markus Friedl,
61: Niels Provos, and Theo de Raadt
62: as a fork of SSH 1.2.12 by Tatu Ylonen.
63: Imported September 26, 1999 and first released with OpenBSD 2.6.
64: Now maintained by Markus Friedl, Damien Miller, Darren Tucker, and
65: Theo de Raadt.
1.29 beck 66: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/mg.1">mg(1)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 67: Started by Dave Conroy in November 1986.
68: Imported February 25, 2000 and first released with OpenBSD 2.7.
69: Now maintained by Mark Lumsden.
1.29 beck 70: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/m4.1">m4(1)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 71: Originally implemented by Ozan Yigit and Richard A. O'Keefe for 4.3BSD-Reno.
72: Considerably extended and maintained by Marc Espie since 1999.
1.29 beck 73: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/pf.4">pf(4)</a>,
74: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/pfctl.8">pfctl(8)</a>,
75: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/pflogd.8">pflogd(8)</a>,
76: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/authpf.8">authpf(8)</a>,
77: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ftp-proxy.8">ftp-proxy(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 78: Started by Daniel Hartmeier
79: as a replacement for the non-free ipf by Darren Reed.
80: Imported June 24, 2001 and first released with OpenBSD 3.0.
1.16 deraadt 81: Now maintained by Henning Brauer.
1.34 schwarze 82: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.9/systrace.4">systrace(4)</a>,
83: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.9/systrace.1">systrace(1)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 84: Started by Niels Provos.
85: Imported June 4, 2002 and first released with OpenBSD 3.2.
1.34 schwarze 86: Deleted after OpenBSD 5.9 because
87: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2">pledge(2)</a> is even better.
1.29 beck 88: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/spamd.8">spamd(8)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 89: Written by Bob Beck. Imported December 21, 2002 and first released with OpenBSD 3.3.
1.29 beck 90: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/dc.1">dc(1)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 91: Written and maintained by Otto Moerbeek.
92: Imported September 19, 2003 and first released with OpenBSD 3.5.
1.29 beck 93: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/bc.1">bc(1)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 94: Written and maintained by Otto Moerbeek.
95: Imported September 25, 2003 and first released with OpenBSD 3.5.
1.29 beck 96: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/sensorsd.8">sensorsd(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 97: Started by Henning Brauer.
1.16 deraadt 98: Imported September 24, 2003 and first released with OpenBSD 3.5.
1.25 schwarze 99: Reworked by Constantine A. Murenin.
1.29 beck 100: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/pkg_add.1">pkg_add(1)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 101: Written and maintained by Marc Espie.
1.16 deraadt 102: Imported October 16, 2003 and first released with OpenBSD 3.5.
1.29 beck 103: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/carp.4">carp(4)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 104: Written by Mickey Shalayeff, Markus Friedl, Marco Pfatschbacher,
105: and Ryan McBride.
106: Imported October 17, 2003 and first released with OpenBSD 3.5.
1.16 deraadt 107: <li><a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>
1.29 beck 108: including <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a>
109: and <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/bgpctl.8">bgpctl(8)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 110: Written and maintained by Henning Brauer and Claudio Jeker.
111: Imported December 17, 2003 and first released with OpenBSD 3.5.
1.29 beck 112: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 113: Started by Ted Lemon and Elliot Poger in 1996.
114: Imported January 18, 2004 and first released with OpenBSD 3.5.
115: Reworked by Henning Brauer.
116: Now maintained by Kenneth Westerback.
1.29 beck 117: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/dhcpd.8">dhcpd(8)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 118: Started by Ted Lemon in 1995.
119: Imported April 13, 2004 and first released with OpenBSD 3.6.
120: Reworked by Henning Brauer.
121: Now maintained by Kenneth Westerback.
1.29 beck 122: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/hotplugd.8">hotplugd(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 123: Started by Alexander Yurchenko.
1.16 deraadt 124: Imported May 30, 2004 and first released with OpenBSD 3.6.
125: <li><a href="http://www.openntpd.org/">OpenNTPD</a>
1.29 beck 126: including <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ntpd.8">ntpd(8)</a>
127: and <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ntpctl.8">ntpctl(8)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 128: Written and maintained by Henning Brauer.
129: Imported May 31, 2004 and first released with OpenBSD 3.6.
130: Portable version maintained by Brent Cook.
1.29 beck 131: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/dpb.1">dpb(1)</a>:
1.2 schwarze 132: Started by Nikolay Sturm on August 10, 2004; first available for OpenBSD 3.6.
1.16 deraadt 133: Rewritten and maintained by Marc Espie since August 20, 2010.
1.29 beck 134: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ospfd.8">ospfd(8)</a>,
135: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ospfctl.8">ospfctl(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 136: Started by Esben Norby and Claudio Jeker.
1.16 deraadt 137: Imported January 28, 2005 and first released with OpenBSD 3.7.
1.29 beck 138: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ifstated.8">ifstated(8)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 139: Started by Marco Pfatschbacher and Ryan McBride.
140: Imported January 23, 2004 and first released with OpenBSD 3.8.
1.29 beck 141: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/bioctl.8">bioctl(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 142: Started by Marco Peereboom.
1.16 deraadt 143: Imported March 29, 2005 and first released with OpenBSD 3.8.
1.29 beck 144: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/hostapd.8">hostapd(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 145: Written and maintained by Reyk Floeter.
1.16 deraadt 146: Imported May 26, 2005 and first released with OpenBSD 3.8.
1.29 beck 147: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/watchdogd.8">watchdogd(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 148: Started by Marc Balmer.
1.16 deraadt 149: Imported August 8, 2005 and first released with OpenBSD 3.8.
1.29 beck 150: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/sdiff.1">sdiff(1)</a>:
1.5 schwarze 151: Written by Ray Lai.
1.16 deraadt 152: Imported December 27, 2005 and first released with OpenBSD 3.9.
1.29 beck 153: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/dvmrpd.8">dvmrpd(8)</a>,
154: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/dvmrpctl.8">dvmrpctl(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 155: Started by Esben Norby.
1.16 deraadt 156: Imported June 1, 2006 and first released with OpenBSD 4.0.
1.29 beck 157: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ripd.8">ripd(8)</a>,
158: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ripctl.8">ripctl(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 159: Started by Michele Marchetto.
1.16 deraadt 160: Imported October 18, 2006 and first released with OpenBSD 4.1.
1.29 beck 161: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/pkg-config.1">pkg-config(1)</a>:
1.10 schwarze 162: Started by Chris Kuethe and Marc Espie.
163: Imported November 27, 2006 and first released with OpenBSD 4.1.
1.16 deraadt 164: Now maintained by Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse.
1.29 beck 165: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/relayd.8">relayd(8)</a>
166: with <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/relayctl.8">relayctl(8)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 167: Started by Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Reyk Floeter.
168: Imported December 16, 2006 and first released with OpenBSD 4.1.
169: Now maintained by Reyk Floeter and Sebastian Benoit.<br/>
1.29 beck 170: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/cwm.1">cwm(1)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 171: Started by <a href="http://monkey.org/~marius/cwm/README">Marius
1.23 schwarze 172: Aamodt Eriksen</A> in 2004.
1.22 schwarze 173: Imported April 27, 2007 and first released with OpenBSD 4.2.
174: Now maintained by Okan Demirmen.
1.29 beck 175: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a>,
176: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ospf6ctl.8">ospf6ctl(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 177: Started by Esben Norby and Claudio Jeker.
1.16 deraadt 178: Imported October 8, 2007 and first released with OpenBSD 4.2.
1.29 beck 179: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/libtool.1">libtool(1)</a>:
1.10 schwarze 180: Written by Steven Mestdagh and Marc Espie.
181: Imported October 28, 2007 and first available for OpenBSD 4.3.
182: Now maintained by Marc Espie, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse,
1.16 deraadt 183: and Antoine Jacoutot.
1.29 beck 184: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/snmpd.8">snmpd(8)</a>,
185: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/snmpctl.8">snmpctl(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 186: Started by Reyk Floeter.
187: Imported December 5, 2007 and first released with OpenBSD 4.3.
1.16 deraadt 188: Maintained by Reyk Floeter and Bret Lambert.
1.29 beck 189: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/sysmerge.8">sysmerge(8)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 190: Written and maintained by Antoine Jacoutot,
191: originally forked from mergemaster by Douglas Barton.
192: Imported April 22, 2008, first released with OpenBSD 4.4.
1.29 beck 193: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ypldap.8">ypldap(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 194: Started by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
1.16 deraadt 195: Imported June 26, 2008 and first released with OpenBSD 4.4.
196: <li><a href="http://www.opensmtpd.org/">OpenSMTPD</a>
1.29 beck 197: including <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/smtpd.8">smtpd(8)</a>,
198: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/smtpctl.8">smtpctl(8)</a>,
199: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/makemap.8">makemap(8)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 200: Started by Gilles Chehade.
201: Imported November 1, 2008 and first released with OpenBSD 4.6.
202: Now maintained by Gilles Chehade and Eric Faurot.
1.22 schwarze 203: <li><a href="http://tmux.github.io/">tmux</a>,
1.29 beck 204: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 205: Started in 2007 and maintained by Nicholas Marriott.
206: Imported June 1, 2009, first released with OpenBSD 4.6.
1.29 beck 207: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ldpd.8">ldpd(8)</a>,
208: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ldpctl.8">ldpctl(8)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 209: Started by Michele Marchetto.
210: Imported June 1, 2009 and first released with OpenBSD 4.6.
211: Now maintained by Claudio Jeker.
212: <li><a href="http://mdocml.bsd.lv/">mandoc</a>
1.29 beck 213: including <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/mandoc.1">mandoc(1)</a>,
214: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/man.1">man(1)</a>,
215: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/apropos.1">apropos(1)</a>,
216: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/makewhatis.8">makewhatis(8)</a>,
217: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/mandoc/man8/man.cgi.8">man.cgi(8)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 218: Started by Kristaps Dzonsons in November 2008.
219: Imported April 6, 2009, first released with OpenBSD 4.8.
220: Now maintained by Ingo Schwarze.
1.29 beck 221: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ldapd.8">ldapd(8)</a>,
222: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ldapctl.8">ldapctl(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 223: Written by Martin Hedenfalk.
1.16 deraadt 224: Imported May 31, 2010 and first released with OpenBSD 4.8.
225: <li><a href="http://www.openiked.org/">OpenIKED</a>
1.29 beck 226: including <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/iked.8">iked(8)</a>
227: and <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ikectl.8">ikectl(8)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 228: Started by Reyk Floeter.
229: Imported June 3, 2010 and first released with OpenBSD 4.8.
230: Now maintained by Reyk Floeter and Mike Belopuhov.
1.29 beck 231: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/iscsid.8">iscsid(8)</a>,
232: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/iscsictl.8">iscsictl(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 233: Written and maintained by Claudio Jeker.
1.16 deraadt 234: Imported September 24, 2010 and first released with OpenBSD 4.9.
1.29 beck 235: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/rc.d.8">rc.d(8)</a>,
236: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/rc.subr.8">rc.subr(8)</a>:
1.3 schwarze 237: Written and maintained by Robert Nagy and Antoine Jacoutot.
1.16 deraadt 238: Imported October 26, 2010 and first released with OpenBSD 4.9.
1.29 beck 239: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/tftpd.8">tftpd(8)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 240: Written and maintained by David Gwynne.
241: Imported March 2, 2012 and first released with OpenBSD 5.2.
1.29 beck 242: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/npppd.8">npppd(8)</a>,
243: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/npppctl.8">npppctl(8)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 244: Started by Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
245: Imported January 11, 2010, first released with OpenBSD 5.3.
246: Maintained by YASUOKA Masahiko.
1.29 beck 247: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/sparc64/ldomd.8">ldomd(8)</a>,
248: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/sparc64/ldomctl.8">ldomctl(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 249: Written and maintained by Mark Kettenis.
1.16 deraadt 250: Imported October 26, 2012 and first released with OpenBSD 5.3.
1.29 beck 251: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/sndiod.8">sndiod(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 252: Written and maintained by Alexandre Ratchov.
1.16 deraadt 253: Imported November 23, 2012 and first released with OpenBSD 5.3.
1.29 beck 254: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/cu.1">cu(1)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 255: Written and maintained by Nicholas Marriott.
256: Imported July 10, 2012 and first released with OpenBSD 5.4.
1.29 beck 257: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/identd.8">identd(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 258: Written and maintained by David Gwynne.
1.16 deraadt 259: Imported March 18, 2013 and first released with OpenBSD 5.4.
1.29 beck 260: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/slowcgi.8">slowcgi(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 261: Written and maintained by Florian Obser.
1.16 deraadt 262: Imported May 23, 2013 and first released with OpenBSD 5.4.
1.29 beck 263: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/signify.1">signify(1)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 264: Written and maintained by <a href="http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/signify">Ted Unangst</a>.
1.16 deraadt 265: Imported December 31, 2013 and first released with OpenBSD 5.5.
1.29 beck 266: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/htpasswd.1">htpasswd(1)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 267: Written and maintained by Florian Obser.
1.16 deraadt 268: Imported March 17, 2014 and first released with OpenBSD 5.6.
1.22 schwarze 269: <li><a href="http://www.libressl.org/">LibreSSL</a>:
270: Started by Ted Unangst, Bob Beck, Joel Sing, Miod Vallat, Philip Guenther,
1.23 schwarze 271: and Theo de Raadt on April 13, 2014, as a fork of OpenSSL 1.0.1g.
272: First released with OpenBSD 5.6.
1.22 schwarze 273: Portable version maintained by Brent Cook.
1.29 beck 274: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 275: Started by Reyk Floeter.
276: Imported July 12, 2014 and first released with OpenBSD 5.6.
277: Maintained by Reyk Floeter and Florian Obser.
1.29 beck 278: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/rcctl.8">rcctl(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 279: Written and maintained by Antoine Jacoutot.
1.16 deraadt 280: Imported August 19, 2014 and first released with OpenBSD 5.7.
1.29 beck 281: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/file.1">file(1)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 282: Rewritten from scratch and maintained by Nicholas Marriott.
1.16 deraadt 283: Imported April 24, 2015 and first released with OpenBSD 5.8.
1.29 beck 284: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/doas.1">doas(1)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 285: Written and maintained by Ted Unangst.
1.16 deraadt 286: Imported July 16, 2015 and first released with OpenBSD 5.8.
1.29 beck 287: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/radiusd.8">radiusd(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 288: Written and maintained by YASUOKA Masahiko.
1.16 deraadt 289: Imported July 21, 2015 and first released with OpenBSD 5.8.
1.34 schwarze 290: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/eigrpd.8">eigrpd(8)</a>,
291: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/eigrpctl.8">eigrpctl(8)</a>:
292: Written and maintained by Renato Westphal.
293: Imported October 2, 2015 and first released with OpenBSD 5.9.
1.29 beck 294: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/rebound.8">rebound(8)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 295: Written and maintained by Ted Unangst.
1.16 deraadt 296: Imported October 15, 2015 and first released with OpenBSD 5.9.
1.29 beck 297: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/amd64/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a>,
298: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a>,
299: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a>:
1.21 schwarze 300: Written and maintained by Mike Larkin and Reyk Floeter.
301: Imported November 13, 2015 and first released with OpenBSD 5.9.
1.34 schwarze 302: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/pdisk.8">pdisk(8)</a>:
303: Originally written by Eryk Vershen in 1996-1998,
304: rewritten and maintained by Kenneth Westerback since January 11, 2016
305: and first released with OpenBSD 5.9.
306: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/mknod.8">mknod(8)</a>:
307: Original version from Version 6 AT&T UNIX (1975),
308: last rewritten by Marc Espie on March 5, 2016
309: and first released with OpenBSD 6.0.
310: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/audioctl.1">audioctl(1)</a>:
311: Originally written by Lennart Augustsson in 1997,
312: rewritten and maintained by Alexandre Ratchov since June 21, 2016
313: and first released with OpenBSD 6.0.
314: <li><a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/switchd/">switchd(8)</a>,
315: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/switchctl/">switchctl(8)</a>:
316: Written and maintained by Reyk Floeter.
317: Imported July 19, 2016; to be released with OpenBSD 6.1.
1.17 mlarkin 318: </ul>
1.1 schwarze 319:
1.16 deraadt 320: <h3>Concepts</h3>
1.1 schwarze 321:
322: <ul>
1.29 beck 323: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/ipsec.4">ipsec(4)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 324: Started by John Ioannidis, Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos, and
325: Niklas Hallqvist, imported February 20, 1997. OpenBSD was the first
326: free operating system to provide an IPSec stack.
1.29 beck 327: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/inet6.4">inet6(4)</a>:
1.22 schwarze 328: First complete integration and adoption of IPv6 led by
329: "Itojun" (Dr. Junichiro Hagino) [WIDE/KAME], Craig Metz [NRL], and
330: Angelos D. Keromytis starting Jan 6, 1999.
331: Almost fully operational Jun 6, 1999 during the
332: <a href="hackathons.html">first OpenBSD hackathon</a>.
333: OpenBSD 2.7.
1.16 deraadt 334: <li>Privilege separation:
335: First implemented by
336: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/ssh/privsep.html">Niels Provos</a>
337: and Markus Friedl in OpenSSH in March 2002, released with OpenBSD 3.2.
1.27 deraadt 338: The concept is now used in many OpenBSD programs, for example
1.29 beck 339: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a>,
340: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>,
341: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/dhcpd.8">dhcpd(8)</a>,
342: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/dvmrpd.8">dvmrpd(8)</a>,
343: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/eigrpd.8">eigrpd(8)</a>,
344: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/file.1">file(1)</a>,
345: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a>,
346: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/iked.8">iked(8)</a>,
347: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ldapd.8">ldapd(8)</a>,
348: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ldpd.8">ldpd(8)</a>,
349: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/mountd.8">mountd(8)</a>,
350: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/npppd.8">npppd(8)</a>,
351: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ntpd.8">ntpd(8)</a>,
352: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ospfd.8">ospfd(8)</a>,
353: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a>,
354: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/pflogd.8">pflogd(8)</a>,
355: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/radiusd.8">radiusd(8)</a>,
356: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/relayd.8">relayd(8)</a>,
357: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ripd.8">ripd(8)</a>,
358: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/script.1">script(1)</a>,
359: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/smtpd.8">smtpd(8)</a>,
360: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/syslogd.8">syslogd(8)</a>,
361: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/tcpdump.8">tcpdump(8)</a>,
362: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a>,
363: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/xconsole.1">xconsole(1)</a>,
364: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/xdm.1">xdm(1)</a>,
365: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/Xserver.1">Xserver(1)</a>,
366: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ypldap.8">ypldap(8)</a>,
367: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/pkg_add.1">pkg_add(1)</a>,
1.27 deraadt 368: etc.
369: <li>Privilege revocation:
370: Related to the work on privilege separation, some programs were refactored
371: to drop privileges while holding onto a tricky resource such as a raw socket,
372: reserved port, or modification-locked bpf(4) descriptor,
373: for example
1.29 beck 374: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ping.8">ping(8)</a>,
375: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/traceroute.8">traceroute(8)</a>,
1.27 deraadt 376: etc.
1.22 schwarze 377: <li>Stack protector: Developed since 2001 as "propolice" by Hiroaki Etoh.
378: Integrated, and implemented for additional hardware platforms,
379: by Miod Vallat and Theo de Raadt. OpenBSD 3.3 was the first operating
380: system to enable it systemwide by default.
1.16 deraadt 381: <li>W^X: First used for sparc, sparc64, alpha, and hppa in OpenBSD 3.3.
1.34 schwarze 382: Strictly enforced by default since OpenBSD 6.0: a program can only
383: violate it if the executable is marked with <tt>PT_OPENBSD_WXNEEDED</tt>
384: and it is located on a filesystem mounted with the <tt>wxallowed</tt>
385: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/mount.8">mount(8)</a> option.
1.36 guenther 386: <li>GOT and PLT protection by ld.so: first done as part of the W^X
387: work in OpenBSD 3.3, by Dale Rahn and Theo de Raadt.
388: The GOT and PLT regions are read-only outside of ld.so itself.
389: Extended to the .init/.fini sections (constructors and destructors)
390: in OpenBSD 3.4.
1.16 deraadt 391: <li>ASLR: OpenBSD 3.4 was the first widely used operating system to
392: provide it by default.
1.29 beck 393: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/gcc-local.1">gcc-local(1)</a>
1.16 deraadt 394: __attribute__((__bounded__)) static analysis annotation
395: and checking mechanism:
396: Started by Anil Madhavapeddy on June 26, 2003
397: and ported to GCC 4 by Nicholas Marriott.
398: First released with OpenBSD 3.4.
1.29 beck 399: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man3/malloc.3">malloc(3)</a>
1.16 deraadt 400: randomization implemented by Thierry Deval. Guard pages and randomized (delayed) free added by Ted Unangst.
1.35 tb 401: Reimplemented by <a href="papers/eurobsdcon2009/otto-malloc.pdf">Otto Moerbeek</a>
1.16 deraadt 402: for OpenBSD 4.4.</li>
1.22 schwarze 403: <li>PIE: OpenBSD 5.3 was the first widely used operating system to enable
404: it globally by default, on seven hardware platforms.
1.38 guenther 405: <li>Random-data memory: the ability to specify that a variable
406: should be initialized at load time with random byte values was
407: implemented in OpenBSD 5.3 by Matthew Dempsky.
408: <li>Stack protector per shared object: using the random-data memory
409: feature, each shared object was given its own stack protector
410: cookie in OpenBSD 5.3 by Matthew Dempsky.
1.16 deraadt 411: <li>Static-PIE: Position-independent static binaries for /bin, /sbin and ramdisks.
412: First released with OpenBSD 5.7.
1.34 schwarze 413: <li>SROP (<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sigreturn.2">sigreturn(2)</a>
414: oriented programming) mitigation: Researched by
415: <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/papers/srop_sp14.pdf">Eric Bosman</a>
416: and Herbert Bos in 2014, implemented by Theo de Raadt in May 2016,
417: enabled by default since OpenBSD 6.0.
418: <li>C library order randomization:
419: In <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/rc.8">rc(8)</a>, re-link
420: <tt>libc.so</tt> on startup, placing the objects in a random order.
421: Theo de Raadt and Robert Peichaer, May 2016,
422: enabled by default since OpenBSD 6.0.
1.39 ! tb 423: <li>Kernel-assisted lazy-binding for W^X safety in multi-threaded programs.
1.36 guenther 424: A new syscall <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/kbind.2">kbind(2)</a>
425: permits lazy-binding to be W^X safe in multi-threaded programs.
426: Implemented for OpenBSD 5.9 by Philip Guenther in July 2015.
427: <li>Process layouts in memory tightened to remove execute permission from
1.37 guenther 428: all segmented, non-instruction data and to remove write permission from
1.36 guenther 429: data that is only modified during loading and relocation.
1.37 guenther 430: By combining the RELRO (Read-Only after Relocation) design from the
1.36 guenther 431: GNU project with the original ASLR work from OpenBSD 3.3 and
432: strict lazy-binding work from OpenBSD 5.9, this is applied to not
433: just a subset of programs and libraries but rather to all programs
434: and libraries.
435: Implemented for OpenBSD 6.1 by Philip Guenther in August 2016.
1.16 deraadt 436: </ul>
437:
438: <h3>Functions</h3>
439:
440: <ul>
1.29 beck 441: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man3/arc4random.3">arc4random(3)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 442: David Mazieres, December 28, 1996, OpenBSD 2.1
1.29 beck 443: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man3/bcrypt.3">bcrypt(3)</a>:
1.1 schwarze 444: Implemented by <a href="https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix99/provos/provos_html/node1.html">Niels Provos and David Mazieres</a>
445: Imported February 13, 1997 and first released with OpenBSD 2.1.
1.29 beck 446: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man3/strlcpy.3">strlcpy(3)</a>,
447: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man3/strlcat.3">strlcat(3)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 448: Todd Miller and Theo de Raadt, July 1, 1998, OpenBSD 2.4
1.29 beck 449: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man3/strtonum.3">strtonum(3)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 450: Ted Unangst, Todd Miller, and Theo de Raadt, May 3, 2004, OpenBSD 3.6
1.29 beck 451: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man3/imsg_init.3">imsg</a>:
1.12 schwarze 452: Message passing API, written by Henning Brauer.
453: In libutil since May 26, 2010, OpenBSD 4.8;
1.16 deraadt 454: used by various daemons before that.
1.29 beck 455: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man3/timingsafe_bcmp.3">timingsafe_bcmp(3)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 456: Damien Miller, July 13, 2010, OpenBSD 4.9
1.29 beck 457: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man3/explicit_bzero.3">explicit_bzero(3)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 458: Ted Unangst and Matthew Dempsky, January 22, 2014, OpenBSD 5.5
1.29 beck 459: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man3/ohash_init.3">ohash</a>:
1.12 schwarze 460: Written and maintained by Marc Espie.
461: In libutil since May 12, 2014, OpenBSD 5.6;
1.16 deraadt 462: used by make(1) and m4(1) before that.
1.29 beck 463: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man3/asr_run.3">asr</a>:
1.12 schwarze 464: Replacement resolver written and maintained by Eric Faurot.
1.16 deraadt 465: Imported April 14, 2012; activated on March 26, 2014, OpenBSD 5.6.
1.29 beck 466: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man3/reallocarray.3">reallocarray(3)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 467: Theo de Raadt and Ted Unangst, April 22, 2014, OpenBSD 5.6
1.29 beck 468: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man2/getentropy.2">getentropy(2)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 469: Matthew Dempsky and Theo de Raadt, June 13, 2014, OpenBSD 5.6
1.29 beck 470: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man2/sendsyslog.2">sendsyslog(2)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 471: Theo de Raadt, July 10, 2014, OpenBSD 5.6
1.29 beck 472: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man3/timingsafe_memcmp.3">timingsafe_memcmp(3)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 473: Matthew Dempsky, July 13, 2014, OpenBSD 5.6
1.29 beck 474: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man2/pledge.2">pledge(2)</a>:
1.16 deraadt 475: Theo de Raadt, July 19, 2015, OpenBSD 5.9
1.34 schwarze 476: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/getpwnam_shadow.3">getpwnam_shadow(3)</a>,
477: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/getpwuid_shadow.3">getpwuid_shadow(3)</a>:
478: Ted Unangst and Theo de Raadt, November 18, 2015, OpenBSD 5.9
1.1 schwarze 479: </ul>
480:
1.11 deraadt 481: <h3>Projects maintained by OpenBSD developers outside OpenBSD</h3>
1.1 schwarze 482:
483: <ul>
484: <li><a href="http://www.sudo.ws/">sudo</a>:
485: Started by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff Spencer around 1980.
486: Imported November 18, 1999, first released with OpenBSD 2.7.
1.16 deraadt 487: Now maintained by Todd Miller.
1.24 schwarze 488: <li><a href="http://bulabula.org/femail/">femail</a>:
489: Written and maintained by Henning Brauer.
490: Port available since September 22, 2005.
1.1 schwarze 491: <li><a href="http://www.midish.org/">midish</a>:
492: Written and maintained by Alexandre Ratchov.
1.16 deraadt 493: Port available since November 4, 2005.
1.7 schwarze 494: <li><a href="https://github.com/nicm/fdm">fdm</a>:
1.1 schwarze 495: Written and maintained by Nicholas Marriott.
1.16 deraadt 496: Port available since January 18, 2007.
1.3 schwarze 497: <li><a href="https://github.com/ajacoutot/toad/">toad</a>:
498: Written and maintained by Antoine Jacoutot.
1.16 deraadt 499: Port available since October 8, 2013.
1.1 schwarze 500: <li><a href="http://jasperla.github.io/portroach/">portroach</a>:
501: Written and maintained by Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse,
502: originally forked from FreeBSD's portscout.
1.16 deraadt 503: Port available since September 5, 2014.
1.1 schwarze 504: </ul>
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