The OpenBSD operating system focuses on security and the development of security features.: xxvii According to author Michael W. Lucas, OpenBSD "is widely...
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OpenBSD is a security-focused, free software, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created OpenBSD...
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California, Berkeley. It was forked from NetBSD in 1995. OpenBSD includes a number of security features absent or optional in other operating systems...
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Privilege separation (category Computer security procedures)
privilege separation and security in mind is Dovecot. Separation of privileges is one of the major OpenBSD security features. OpenSSH uses privilege separation...
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strictly open source licensing. The system incorporates numerous security features that are absent or optional in other versions of BSD. The OpenBSD policy...
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Corporation, 2008, OpenSSL and Apache--Software crypto(4) in OpenBSD manual de Raadt, Theo (2010-12-14). "Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC". openbsd-tech (Mailing...
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game consoles. The other current BSD systems (OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD) also contain a large amount of FreeBSD code, and vice-versa.[citation...
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Systrace (category OpenBSD)
pledge post OpenBSD 5.9). It is available for Linux and Mac OS X, although the OS X port is currently unmaintained. It was removed from NetBSD at the end...
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Communications Security. OpenSSH was first released in 1999 and is currently developed as part of the OpenBSD operating system. OpenSSH is not a single...
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"OpenBSD 4.6". openbsd.org. "OpenBSD 5.3". openbsd.org. "OpenSMTPD Audit Report". Qualys. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2015. "Announce: OpenSMTPD...
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OpenNTPD (also known as OpenBSD NTP Daemon) is a Unix daemon implementing the Network Time Protocol to synchronize the local clock of a computer system...
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Darwin (operating system) (redirect from Darwin BSD)
independent open-source operating system, first released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code derived from NeXTSTEP, FreeBSD and other BSD operating...
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MySQL. It is available on Solaris, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, QNX, macOS and Windows XP and later. OpenVPN is available for mobile operating systems...
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Retrieved 26 October 2011. "OpenBSD: Platforms". OpenBSD. 9 May 2006. Retrieved 21 October 2019. "Platforms Supported by NetBSD". NetBSD.org. Retrieved 9 December...
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OpenBSD, from a forked version of NetBSD 1.0 near the end of 1995. In 1998, NetBSD 1.3 introduced the pkgsrc packages collection. Until 2004, NetBSD 1...
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Nginx (category Software using the BSD license)
Docker adoption". 13 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018. "OpenBSD Upgrade Guide: 5.1 to 5.2". openbsd.org. 6 November 2012. "Heads Up: Nginx Removed From Base"...
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Portage (software) (redirect from Gentoo/OpenBSD)
an incomplete state. Gentoo/OpenBSD was a Gentoo/*BSD subproject to port Gentoo features such as Portage to the OpenBSD operating system. It was originally...
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IPsec (redirect from Encapsulating Security Payload)
has a devastating effect on a security standard. There is alleged interference of NSA to weaken its security features. Starting in the early 1970s, the...
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Comparison of BSD operating systems List of BSD operating systems FreeBSD Darwin (operating system) DesktopBSD MidnightBSD TrueOS NetBSD OpenBSD "GhostBSD is switching...
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LibreSSL (category OpenBSD)
in release 2.3.0. The OpenBSD project forked LibreSSL from OpenSSL 1.0.1g in April 2014 as a response to the Heartbleed security vulnerability, with the...
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Secure Shell (redirect from SSH Communications Security)
systems, including macOS, most distributions of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and OpenVMS. Notably, versions of Windows prior to Windows 10 version...
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will benefit the most from this support. As with FreeBSD and OpenBSD, the developers of DragonFly BSD are slowly replacing pre-function prototype-style C...
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pages. OpenBSD Project gif(4) - OpenBSD manual pages. OpenBSD Project CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src. OpenBSD Project GRE Tunneling in Windows Server 2016. Microsoft...
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Metasploit (category Security testing tools)
NetWare, NodeJS, OpenBSD, macOS, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Solaris, Unix, and Windows. Note that Apple iOS is based on FreeBSD, and some FreeBSD exploits may...
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Apache HTTP Server (section Security)
Retrieved 2013-05-12. "apache-httpd-openbsd-1.3.20140502p2 – OpenBSD improved and secured version of Apache 1.3". OpenBSD ports. Archived from the original...
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capsicum(4) man page – a lightweight OS capability and sandbox framework OpenBSD pledge(2) man page – a way to restrict system operations Sandbox testing...
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2024. Retrieved December 9, 2024. "security/assl: assl-1.5.0p0v0 – hide awful SSL API in a sane interface". OpenBSD ports. May 22, 2014. Archived from...
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Openwall Project (redirect from OpenWall Project)
BSDs, such as OpenBSD for its OpenSSH suite and the inspiration behind its own Blowfish-based crypt for password hashing, compatible with the OpenBSD...
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