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FreeBSD foundation semi-annual newsletter

• The FreeBSD foundation published their semi-annual newsletter, complete with a letter from the president of the foundation
• "In fact after reading [the president's] letter, I was motivated to come up with my own elevator pitch instead of the usual FreeBSD is like Linux, only better!"
• It talks about the FreeBSD journal as being one of the most exciting things they've launched this year, conferences they funded and various bits of sponsored code that went into -CURRENT
• The full list of funded projects is included, also with details in the financial reports
• There are also a number of conference wrap-ups: NYCBSDCon, BSDCan, AsiaBSDCon and details about the upcoming EuroBSDCon

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BSDCan schedule, speakers and talks

• This year's BSDCan will kick off on May 14th in Ottawa
• The list of speakers is also out
• And finally the talks everyone's looking forward to
• Lots of great tutorials and talks, spanning a wide range of topics of interest
• Be sure to come by so you can and meet Allan and Kris in person and get BSDCan shirts ***

NYCBSDCon talks uploaded

• The BSD TV YouTube channel has been uploading recordings from the 2014 NYCBSDCon
• Jeff Rizzo's talk, "Releasing NetBSD: So Many Targets, So Little Time"
• Dru Lavigne's talk, "ZFS Management Tools in FreeNAS and PC-BSD"
• Scott Long's talk, "Serving one third of the Internet via FreeBSD"
• Michael W. Lucas' talk, "BSD Breaking Barriers" ***

FreeBSD Journal, issue 2

• The bi-monthly FreeBSD journal's second issue is out
• Topics in this issue include pkg, poudriere, the PBI format, hwpmc and journaled soft-updates
• In less than two months, they've already gotten over 1000 subscribers! It's available on Google Play, iTunes, Amazon, etc
• "We are also working on a dynamic version of the magazine that can be read in many web browsers, including those that run on FreeBSD"
• Check our interview with GNN for more information about the journal ***

OpenSSL, more like OpenSS-Hell

• We mentioned this huge OpenSSL bug last week during all the chaos, but the aftermath is just as messy
• There's been a pretty vicious response from security experts all across the internet and in all of the BSD projects - and rightfully so
• We finally have a timeline of events
• Reactions from ISC, PCBSD, Tarsnap, the Tor project, FreeBSD, NetBSD, oss-sec, PHK, Varnish and Akamai
• pfSense released a new version to fix it
• OpenBSD disabled heartbeat entirely and is very unforgiving of the IETF
• Ted Unangst has two good write-ups about the issue and how horrible the OpenSSL codebase is
• A nice quote from one of the OpenBSD lists: "Given how trivial one-liner fixes such as #2569 have remained unfixed for 2.5+ years, one can only assume that OpenSSL's bug tracker is only used to park bugs, not fix them"
• Sounds like someone else was having fun with the bug for a while too
• There's also another OpenSSL bug that OpenBSD patched - it allows an attacker to inject data from one connection into another
• OpenBSD has also imported the most current version of OpenSSL and are ripping it apart from the inside out - we're seeing a fork in real time ***

Interview - Jim Brown - info@bsdcertification.org

The BSD Certification exams

Tutorial

Building OpenBSD binary packages in bulk

News Roundup

Portable signify

• Back in episode 23 we talked with Ted Unangst about the new "signify" tool in OpenBSD
• Now there's a (completely unofficial) portable version of it on github
• If you want to verify your OpenBSD sets ahead of time on another OS, this tool should let you do it
• Maybe other BSD projects can adopt it as a replacement for gpg and incorporate it into their base systems ***

Foundation goals and updates

• The OpenBSD foundation has reached their 2014 goal of $150,000
• You can check their activities and goals to see where the money is going
• Remember that funding also goes to OpenSSH, which EVERY system uses and relies on everyday to protect their data
• The FreeBSD foundation has kicked off their spring fundraising campaign
• There's also a list of their activities and goals available to read through
• Be sure to support your favorite BSD, whichever one, so they can continue to make and improve great software that powers the whole internet ***

PCBSD weekly digest

• New PBI runtime that fixes stability issues and decreases load times
• "Update Center" is getting a lot of development and improvements
• Lots of misc. bug fixes and updates ***

Feedback/Questions

• There's a reddit thread we wanted to highlight - a user wants to show his friend BSD and why it's great
• Brad writes in
• Sha'ul writes in
• iGibbs writes in
• Matt writes in ***

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Using OpenSSH Certificate Authentication

• SSH has a not-so-often-talked-about authentication option in addition to passwords and keys: certificates - you can add certificates to any current authentication method you're using
• They're not really that complex, there just isn't a lot of documentation on how to use them - this post tries to solve that
• There's the benefit of not needing a known_hosts file or authorized_users file anymore
• The post goes into a fair amount of detail about the differences, advantages and implications of using certificates for authentication ***

Back to FreeBSD, a new series

• Similar to the "FreeBSD Challenge" blog series, one of our listeners will be writing about his switching BACK to FreeBSD journey
• "So, a long time ago, I had a box which was running FreeBSD 4, running on a Pentium. 14 years later, I have decided to get back into FreeBSD, now at FreeBSD 10"
• He's starting off with PCBSD since it's easy to get working with dual graphics
• Should be a fun series to follow! ***

OpenBSD's recent experiments in package building

• If you'll remember back to our poudriere tutorial, it lets you build FreeBSD binary packages in bulk - OpenBSD's version is called dpb
• Marc Espie recently got some monster machines in russia to play with to help improve scaling of dpb on high end hardware
• This article goes through some of his findings and plans for future versions that increase performance
• We'll be showing a tutorial of dpb on the show in a few weeks ***

Securing FreeBSD with 2FA

• So maybe you've set up two-factor authentication with gmail or twitter, but have you done it with your BSD box?
• This post walks us through the process of locking down an ssh server with 2FA
• With just a mobile phone and a few extra tools, you can enable two-factor auth on your BSD box and have just that little extra bit of protections ***

Interview - Gleb Kurtsou - gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com

PEFS (security audit results here)

Tutorial

Filesystem-based encryption with PEFS

News Roundup

BSDCan 2014 registration

• Registration is finally open!
• The prices are available along with a full list of presentations
• Tutorial sessions for various topics as well
• You have to go ***

Big changes for OpenBSD 5.6

• Although 5.5 was just frozen and the release process has started, 5.6 is already looking promising
• OpenBSD has, for a long time, included a heavily-patched version of Apache based on 1.3
• They've also imported nginx into base a few years ago, but now have finally removed Apache
• Sendmail is also no longer the default MTA, OpenSMTPD is the new default
• Will BIND be removed next? Maybe so
• They've also discontinued the hp300, mvme68k and mvme88k ports ***

Getting to know your portmgr lurkers

• The "getting to know your portmgr" series makes its return
• This time we get to talk with danfe@ (probably most known for being the nVidia driver maintainer, but he does a lot with ports)
• How he got into FreeBSD? He "wanted a unix system that I could understand and that would not get bloated as time goes by"
• Mentions why he's still heavily involved with the project and lots more ***

PCBSD weekly digest

• Work has started to port Pulseaudio to PCBSD 10.0.1
• There's a new "pc-mixer" utility being worked on for sound management as well
• New PBIs, GNOME/Mate updates, Life Preserver fixes and a lot more
• PCBSD 10.0.1 was released too ***

Feedback/Questions

• Alex writes in
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• Christopher writes in ***