Re: History of Puffy

Quoting Javad Kouhi <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm new to OpenBSD and this is my first post in this list. I'm writing an
> article about OpenBSD in the Persian Wikipedia. The article is here:
>
> http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD
>
> My problem is that the history of Puffy (or OpenBSD's logo in general) is
> not clear. There is some information about the old logo on the:
>
> http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/shirts/openbsd.html
>
> but it is not enough. I need some information such as:
>
> * When Puffy became official logo of OpenBSD?
> * Who created Puffy?
> * What exactly Puffy is? A pufferfish or a porcupinefish?
>
> I've been Googling for this information but found nothing. Also, as far as
> I understood, there is no information about Puffy on the OpenBSD website.
> Do you have a reference for this?
>
> Also, As far as I understood, there are other obsolete logos such as:
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/art/BSDCop_4bit.gif
>
> Is there any information on these obsolete logos too?
>
> And one another thing, the "Media Coverage" section on the website was
> very helpful as it contains many third-party references. But it is not
> updated since 2011, please consider updating it.
>
> Thanks!
>
>

I think puffy is a blowfish and has some relationship to this information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowfish_%28cipher%29

I have OpenBSD CD's from 2.9 onwards and will look to see if there are  
any hints there on the CD covers/pamphlets, over the weekend.

HTH,

Vijay

Vijay Sankar, M.Eng., P.Eng.
ForeTell Technologies Limited
[email protected]

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