The Openwall Project is a source for various software, including Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl), a security-enhanced

Linux distribution A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and, often, a package management system. Linux users usually obtain their operating system by downloading one ...

designed for servers. Openwall patches and security extensions have been included into many major

s. As the name implies, Openwall GNU/*/Linux draws

source code In computing, source code, or simply code, is any collection of code, with or without comments, written using a human-readable programming language, usually as plain text. The source code of a program is specially designed to facilitate the wo ...

and design concepts from numerous sources, most importantly to the project is its usage of the

Linux kernel The Linux kernel is a free and open-source, monolithic, modular, multitasking, Unix-like operating system kernel. It was originally authored in 1991 by Linus Torvalds for his i386-based PC, and it was soon adopted as the kernel for the GNU ope ...

and parts of the GNU userland, others include the

BSD The Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berk ...

s, such as

OpenBSD OpenBSD is a security-focused, free and open-source, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created OpenBSD in 1995 by forking NetBSD 1.0. According to the website, the OpenBSD project em ...

for its

OpenSSH OpenSSH (also known as OpenBSD Secure Shell) is a suite of secure networking utilities based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, which provides a secure channel over an unsecured network in a client–server architecture. Network Working Gr ...

suite and the inspiration behind its own

Blowfish Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the order Tetraodontiformes. The family includes many familiar species variously called pufferfish, puffers, balloonfish, blowfish, blowies, bubblefish, globefish, swellfis ...

-based

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for password hashing, compatible with the OpenBSD implementation.

Public domain software

The Openwall project maintains also a list of algorithms and

which is

public domain software Public-domain software is software that has been placed in the public domain, in other words, software for which there is absolutely no ownership such as copyright, trademark, or patent. Software in the public domain can be modified, distributed, ...

Openwall GNU/*/Linux releases

LWN.net LWN.net is a computing webzine with an emphasis on free software and software for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. It consists of a weekly issue, separate stories which are published most days, and threaded discussion attached to ...

reviewed Openwall Linux 3.0. They wrote:

''PoC, , GTFO''

Issues of the ''International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out'' (''PoC, , GTFO'') are mirrored by the Openwall Project under a

samizdat Samizdat (russian: самиздат, lit=self-publishing, links=no) was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the document ...

licence. The first issue #00 was published in 2013, issue #02 featured the

Chaos Computer Club The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is Europe's largest association of hackers with 7,700 registered members. Founded in 1981, the association is incorporated as an ''eingetragener Verein'' in Germany, with local chapters (called ''Erfa-Kreise'') in ...

. Issue #07 in 2015 was a homage for '' Dr. Dobb's Journal'', which could be rendered as

.pdf 



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.zip 




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, .bpg, or .html.

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Public domain software

Openwall GNU/*/Linux releases

''PoC, , GTFO''

See also

References

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