Design and Performance of the OpenBSD Stateful Packet Filter (pf) This paper from Usenix 2002 describes the design of the new OpenBSD packet filter (pf) and compares performance of stateful vs. stateless filtering. popular (hits: 238)
Url: http://www.benzedrine.cx/pf-paper.html
Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview 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.(hits: 173)
Url: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/deraadt.html
Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks Whitepaper from the University of Alberta on using OpenBSD to block unauthorized users on unprotected Ethernet jacks.(hits: 167)
Url: http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html
Future-Adaptable Password Scheme Whitepaper by OpenBSD developers Niels Provos and David Mazières discussing ways of building systems in which password security keeps up with hardware speeds.(hits: 171)
Url: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/provos.html
Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers Tutorial on hardening and improving security on OpenBSD systems.(hits: 141)
Url: http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden
IP Filter HOWTO Usage guide for the IP Filter firewall software formerly included with OpenBSD.(hits: 151)
Url: http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf