Whitepaper by OpenBSD developers Niels Provos and David Mazières discussing ways of building systems in which password security keeps up with hardware speeds.
Whitepaper presented at USENIX 99 by OpenBSD developers Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski, Angelo D. Keromytis, and Niels Provos discussing the cryptography employed in OpenBSD.
Whitepaper by OpenBSD founder, Theo de Raadt, and AT&T researcher, Charles D. Cranor, describing the development and concepts of the Anonymous CVS source file distribution mechanism.
Whitepaper exploring the benefits of Soft Updates and journaling, comparing their behavior on both micro-benchmarks and workload-based macrobenchmarks.
Whitepaper by Marshall Kirk McKusick and Gregory R. Ganger on eliminating synchronous writes in the Fast Filesystem. Included in OpenBSD since OpenBSD 2.7 Release.
The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in security of computer systems.