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**OpenBSD Innovations**
OpenBSD has pioneered several key advancements in operating system security and networking. Early contributions include its pioneering integration of IPsec (February 1997), making it the first free OS with a fully functional IPSec stack, spearheaded by John Ioannidis, Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos, and Niklas Hallqvist. Shortly after, OpenBSD led the way in fully integrating IPv6 (starting January 1999), largely through the efforts of Itojun, Craig Metz, and Angelos D. Keromytis, achieving near-complete functionality by June 1999.
A groundbreaking contribution was OpenBSD's development and implementation of privilege separation, initially demonstrated in OpenSSH by Niels Provos and Markus Friedl in March 2002. This technique, which isolates different parts of a program to limit the impact of potential security breaches, is now a cornerstone of many OpenBSD applications, enhancing overall system security. The widespread adoption of this concept in various OpenBSD daemons and utilities illustrates its significance in improving system resilience.
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https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143777) (97)
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