Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us, our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it right -- or at least strives to".
Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen OpenBSD for its security aspects.
Kurt Seifried (seifried@seifried.org), security analyst and author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.
Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of OpenSSH, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.
Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to read the NY Times on the web).
Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.
Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with a publicly-accessible Lynx server.
Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.
Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his terminal:
Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)
A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD, because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme with ours.
Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another open source operating system -- is often called the most secure operating system in the world."
Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved to the archives, free registration required.
Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.
Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a paper presented at Usenix).
Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP installation.
The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt, but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals of OpenBSD.
"CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians, who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations." The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half way down the page).
The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
"The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS available."
"IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair treatment to the alternatives.
Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.
"Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.
Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
NFR (Network Flight Recorder) package at
handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
over to OpenBSD.
"Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
columns."
A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
Implementation, including a brief interview with
Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
(the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
graphic - a cross between Superman and the BSD Daemon, which
the WebServer version in HTML does not).
Points at our security page
calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
OpenBSD is.
An article on the swedish IPSec interop event
mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
explains the licensing issues and points to our
copyright policy page.
ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
translating and reprinting articles from
Daemon News, the BSD ezine.
Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)
Japan press coverage (in Japanese)
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