The Freefire Bulletin #2 (1998-06-05) Monthly Newsletter The Freefire Project tries to help Developers in building Firewall and IT-Security Solutions based on Free Tools. You can find additional information about the Project at the Homepage <URL:http://www.inka.de/sites/lina/freefire-l/index_en.html> 0 Executive Info (Ec) --------------------- 1 Changes to the Web Pages (Ec) A new outfit and new content on the Freefire Web Pages 2 The DBD::pNET Perl Database Proxy (JW) is a proxy server for Perl DBI Databases with access control 3 FCT - Firewall Configuration Tool (JHF) generates executable scripts to setup a screening router 4 OpenBSD - A free and secure OS (Ec) OpenBSD emphasis on correctness, security and cryptography 5 Call for Authors If you want to participate in this bulletin, just drop me a note 1 Changes to the Web Pages (Ec) -------------------------------- The Web Pages of the Freefire Project has changes a bit. Now all the Pages are available in english (only the main-page is available in german, too). The lists of resources and tools will be stored in a database, since maintaining and checking the links tends to be hard work. Search and Rating will be added. You can find the pages at: <URL:http://www.inka.de/sites/lina/freefire-l/> (sorry about the typo in some of the last bulletins) 2 The DBD::pNET Perl Database Proxy (JW) ----------------------------------------- is a proxy server for Perl based applications that want to access a database engine behind a firewall or an engine without network support. On the client side the module acts as a usual Perl DBI driver, on the server side it uses the same DBI for accessing the engine. The driver offers a host and user based authorization scheme and strong query restrictions: You can define a set of queries and restrict the outside user (typically a WWW server) to those. The package is available from any CPAN mirror, for example <URL:ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/JWIED> 3 FCT - Firewall Configuration Tool (JHF) ----------------------------------------- generates executable scripts to setup a firewall for nearly all possible configurations (single host, routing host, screened subnet, ...). It actually supports the syntax for ipfwadm, ipchains and IPFilter. It offers a HTML-CGI interface for configuration in any Browser. Also, it can fully be administrered in a shell. <URL:http://www.fen.baynet.de/~ft114> 4 OpenBSD - A free and secure OS (Ec) -------------------------------------- OpenBSD 2.3 is about to ship. It is one of the free BSD operating systems. The OpenBSD Project is very successfull in keeping an eye on security. Quite a few Bugs in OpenBSDs version of programs have been fixed before they got announced in public. >From IPFilter, securelevel, kerberos, MD5 passwords to tcpd and modified (secured) versions of standard daemons (Bind) you get an operating sys- tem which is constantly audited since 1996. <URL:http://www.openbsd.org/> 5 Call for Authors (Ec) ------------------------ Since this Bulletin is trying to be a monthly resource of good information the Project is always seeking for authors. Please drop me a mail if you want to write about something dealing with IT Security and free information or solutions. Authors of the current issue ---------------------------- Ec - Bernd 'eckes' Eckenfels <eckiat_private> JW - Jochen Wiedmann <joeat_private> JHF - Jens Hellmerichs-Friedrich <ft114at_private> (c) Copyright 1998 Bernd Eckenfels and others Bernd Eckenfels <eckiat_private>, GERMANY
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