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OpenBSD Journal: A resource for the OpenBSD community
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In what can only be called a great stride forward in routing security, Sebastian Benoit (benno@) announced the availability of rpki-client version 9.0.The announcement reads, Subject: rpki-client 9.0 released From: Sebastian Benoit <benno openbsd ! org> Date: 2024-03-03 17:24:06 rpki-client 9.0 has just been released and will be available in the rpki-client directory of any OpenBSD mirror soon.
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2024-02-29T00:00:00.0000000
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Using a Yubikey as smartcard for SSH public key authentication
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It's in -current only, so it will be available in 6.5, out in two months or so. Right now your options are: build it yourself (easy), port the port to 6.4 or upgrade to a snapshot (which is is 6.5-beta since last week).
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190302235509
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OpenBSD 7.0 released
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Contributed by rueda on 2021-09-20 from the Undeadly-SYNs dept. The OpenBSD project has released OpenBSD 7.0 , the project's 51 st release. As usual, the release page offers highlights, installation and upgrade instructions, as well as links to other resources such as the detailed changelog. Notable improvements include, but are not limited to:
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About the OpenBSD Journal
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OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. About the OpenBSD Journal Purpose. The OpenBSD Journal is a site dedicated to providing news and information of interest to members of the OpenBSD community.. The site is run by a small group of volunteers. Although several OpenBSD developers are registered users of the site, and the site receives frequent contributions ...
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OpenSSH 9.3p2 released
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OpenSSH 9.3p2 released. Contributed by grey on 2023-07-19 from the It's Wednesday, but you should still patch this now. dept. As announced by Damien Miller: "We've just made an OpenSSH release to fix a remotely exploitable RCE vulnerability in ssh-agent's PKCS#11 support (CVE-2023-38408).
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230719180438
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OpenBSD 7.4 Released
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The OpenBSD project has announced the release of OpenBSD 7.4, the 55 th release of the OpenBSD operating system.. The new release contains a number of innovations and improvements across a number of areas, including Mandatory enforcement of indirect branch targets [See earlier report].; viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver [See earlier report]. vmd(8) has moved to a multi-process model for virtio(4 ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20231016130614&ref=upstract.com
2023-09-27T00:00:00.0000000
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Index for 2021
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OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2021. January. Preliminary OpenBSD Support Added to OBS Studio; Block spammers/abusive IPs with Pf-badhost in OpenBSD. A 'must have' security tool!
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OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutable userland ...
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In a September 1st post to tech@ titled immutable userland mappings, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) gave us a preview of code that may soon land in -current.The message leads in, In the last few years, I have been improving the strictness of userland memory layout. An example is the recent addition of MAP_STACK and msyscall().
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220902100648
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Next steps toward mimmutable, from deraadt@
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In a recent message to the tech mailing list, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) summarized the state of the new memory protections work.The thread also includes a followup from Otto Moerbeek (otto@) on consequent changes to the memory allocation mechanisms.. Theo writes, From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt openbsd ! org> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:10:05 +0000 To: openbsd-tech Subject: More on mimmutable ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20221120115616
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OpenBGPD 7.5 released
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We have released OpenBGPD 7.5, which will be arriving in the OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. This release includes the following changes to the previous release: Implement RFC 9234 - Route Leak Prevention and Detection Using Roles in UPDATE and OPEN Messages. Full support for RFC 7911 - Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP .
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20 years since "and we're just starting": undeadly.org turns 20 (2024 ...
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Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2024-04-07 from the 20 years a Puffyist dept. It's been 20 years since the first undeadly.org post appeared. At that point in our history, we had been enjoying frequent updates to the OpenBSD Journal at the deadly.org site for more than four years, and most of us thought it was an April's Fool prank when ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240409044953
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OpenBSD KDE Status Report
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OpenBSD has managed to drop KDE3 and KDE4 in the 6.8 -> 6.9 release cycle. That makes me very happy because it was a big piece of work and long discussions. This of course brings questions: Kde Plasma 5 package missing. After half a year of work, I managed to successfully update the Qt5 stack to the last LTS version 5.15.2. On the whole, the most work was updating QtWebengine.
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Index for 2022 - undeadly.org
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OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2022. January. DRM updated; LibreSSL update; A proof of concept: running OpenBSD on the PinePhone; February. New 'Reckless guide to OpenBSD' published
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How to create a USB flash installer for OpenBSD
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The isolinux method is quite interesting, they provide an HD-compatible MBR and post-process the ISO with a program which searches for the location of the actual isolinux boot loader and patches it in.
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OpenBSD 6.7 and ffs2 FAQs - undeadly.org
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In OpenBSD 6.7, ffs2 is the default for new filesystems during install (with some exceptions). In OpenBSD 6.7, if you create a new filesystem manually (using newfs (8)) you will still get an FFS1 filesystem unless you force -O2 or if the filesystem will be larger than 1 TB. He also points out that this last point has been changed in -current ...
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OpenBSD gains Wi-Fi "auto-join"
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In a change which is bound to be welcomed widely, -current has gained "auto-join" for Wi-Fi networks. Peter Hessler (phessler@) has been working on this for quite some time and he wrote about it in his p2k18 hackathon report.He has committed the work from the g2k18 hackathon in Ljubljana: CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: phessler@cvs.openbsd.org 2018/07/11 14:18:09 Modified files ...
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Index for 2020
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OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2020. January. Firefox pkg for 6.6-stable will not receive latest updates. [Updated] u2k20 Hackathon Report: Alexandr Nedvedicky on PF anchors work
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OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support in base - undeadly.org
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support to base and tweaked OpenSSH to use them directly. This means. there will be no additional configuration hoops to jump through to use. U2F/FIDO2 security keys. Hardware backed keys can be generated using " ssh-keygen -t ecdsa-sk". (or "ed25519-sk" if your token supports it). Many tokens require to be. touched/tapped to confirm this step.
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20191115064850
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EuroBSDCon 2023 presentations
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Coimbra! dept. EuroBSDCon 2023 has now ended, and slides for many of the OpenBSD developer presentations are now available in the usual place. Video of the presentations can be expected somewhat later. Slides from the tutorial "Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset" are also available. (Comments are closed)
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230919063240
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Wayland on OpenBSD
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Wayland on OpenBSD. Contributed by rueda on 2023-07-10 from the way to go to land dept. Matthieu Herrb ( matthieu@) has written some notes on his work at the (recently-concluded) g2k23 hackathon in Tallinn, Estonia . His article, Wayland on OpenBSD , starts: These are my notes from experimenting with building Wayland bits on OpenBSD during ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230711113344
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OpenBSD Developer: Ted Unangst
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OpenBSD Developer: Ted Unangst. Date: 2015-10-25. On October 18th 20 years ago the first commits to the OpenBSD project landed in the CVS repository. Today on the anniversary the beastie.pl team invites all readers to a series of interviews that our staff conducted with the project developers. We continue with our eight interview - Ted Unangst. 1.
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Index for 2024 - undeadly.org
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Archive Index for. 2024. January. TSO for em(4) committed to -current. OpenBSD workstation hardening tips. DSA removal from OpenSSH. Effortless OpenBSD Audio and Desktop Screen Recording Guide. pinsyscalls(2) working in anger. KMS for Apple silicon machines.
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