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• Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview

  http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/deraadt.html
  Whitepaper presented at USENIX 99 by OpenBSD developers Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski, Angelo D. Keromytis, and Niels Provos discussing the cryptography employed in OpenBSD.

• Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks

  http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html
  Whitepaper from the University of Alberta on using OpenBSD to block unauthorized users on unprotected Ethernet jacks.

• Design and Performance of the OpenBSD Stateful Packet Filter (pf)

  http://www.benzedrine.ch/pf-paper.html
  This paper from Usenix 2002 describes the design of the new OpenBSD packet filter (pf) and compares performance of stateful vs. stateless filtering.

• Future-Adaptable Password Scheme

  http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/provos.html
  Whitepaper by OpenBSD developers Niels Provos and David Mazières discussing ways of building systems in which password security keeps up with hardware speeds.

• Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers

  http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/
  Tutorial on hardening and improving security on OpenBSD systems.

• OpenBSD Packet Filter (pf)

  http://www.benzedrine.ch/pf.html
  Information regarding history and design of the new OpenBSD packet filter (pf).

• OpenBSD Security

  http://www.openbsd.org/security.html
  Official OpenBSD security advisories.

• Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD

  http://www.openbsd.org/papers/oreilly2000/
  Outline notes for the half-day tutorial presented at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Monterey, California on July 17, 2000.

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