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1.78 louis 15: <h2><font color=#e00000>Events</font></h2>
16: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
17: give papers, and organise "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
18: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet like
19: minded people.
1.8 deraadt 20:
1.78 louis 21: <hr>
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23: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 ! louis 24:
1.59 deraadt 25: <dl>
1.75 mickey 26:
1.132 ! louis 27: <h3>2000</h3>
! 28:
! 29: <li><strong>
! 30: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
! 31: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
! 32: </strong><br>
! 33: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers will run a sales table with
! 34: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
! 35: <p>
! 36:
! 37: <h3>2001</h3>
! 38:
! 39: <li><strong>
! 40: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
! 41: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
! 42: </strong><br>
! 43: OpenBSD developers will most likely present papers and run a sales table
! 44: at this conference as they have done in the past.
1.110 deraadt 45: <p>
1.132 ! louis 46:
1.128 jakob 47: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 48: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
! 49: </strong><br>
! 50: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year.
1.128 jakob 51: <p>
52:
1.59 deraadt 53: </dl>
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55: <hr>
1.55 deraadt 56:
1.132 ! louis 57: <!-- STYLE NOTES:
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! 59: Make sure you change the tense from future to past when you move an item.
! 60: Use <br> tags instead of <p> to avoid gaps withing an item.
! 61: Thanks
! 62: louis@openbsd.org
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! 64:
1.55 deraadt 65: <h2>Past events:</h2>
1.59 deraadt 66: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 67:
1.132 ! louis 68: <h3>2000</h3>
! 69:
! 70: <li><strong>
! 71: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
! 72: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
! 73: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
! 74: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 75: <p>
1.4 millert 76:
1.132 ! louis 77: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
! 78: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
! 79: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
! 80: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
! 81: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
! 82: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
! 83: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
! 84:
! 85: <ul>
! 86: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
! 87: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
! 88: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
! 89: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
! 90: </ul>
1.4 millert 91: <p>
1.132 ! louis 92:
1.7 deraadt 93: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 94: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
! 95: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
! 96: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
! 97: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
! 98: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
! 99: mind (drinks afterwards).
! 100: <p>
! 101:
! 102: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
! 103: October 18-20, 2000. Monerey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 104: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
! 105: questions.
1.32 deraadt 106: <p>
1.1 deraadt 107:
1.132 ! louis 108: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
! 109: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
! 110: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
! 111: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for
! 112: security out of the box have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 113: <p>
114:
1.132 ! louis 115: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
! 116: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
! 117: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 118: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
! 119: <ul>
! 120: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
! 121: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
! 122: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
! 123: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
! 124: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
! 125: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 126: <p>
1.132 ! louis 127:
1.10 provos 128: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 129: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
! 130: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 131: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
! 132: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
! 133: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
! 134: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
! 135: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
! 136: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
! 137: <br>
! 138: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
! 139: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
! 140: <p>
1.32 deraadt 141:
1.132 ! louis 142: <li><strong>
! 143: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
! 144: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
! 145: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 146: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
! 147: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
! 148: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
! 149: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
! 150: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
! 151: and spoke about
! 152: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
! 153: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
! 154: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
! 155: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 156: <p>
1.132 ! louis 157:
1.6 deraadt 158: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 159: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
! 160: LinuxTag 2000,
! 161: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
! 162: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
! 163: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
! 164: <br>
! 165: Christian Weisgerber gave a
! 166: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
! 167: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 168: <p>
1.1 deraadt 169:
1.6 deraadt 170: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 171: <a name=usenix2000>
! 172: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 173: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 ! louis 174: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 175: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
! 176: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
! 177: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
! 178: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
! 179: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
! 180: and some users even discovered so by themselves over.
! 181: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
! 182: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
! 183: <ul>
! 184:
! 185: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
! 186: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
! 187: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
! 188: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
! 189: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
! 190: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
! 191:
! 192: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
! 193: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
! 194: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
! 195: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
! 196: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
! 197: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 198:
1.132 ! louis 199: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
! 200: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
! 201: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
! 202: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 203: <p>
204:
1.132 ! louis 205: <li><strong>
! 206: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
! 207: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
! 208: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
! 209: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
! 210: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
! 211: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 212: <p>
1.2 deraadt 213:
1.132 ! louis 214: <li><strong>
! 215: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
! 216: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
! 217: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
! 218: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
! 219: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
! 220: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
! 221: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
! 222: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 223: <p>
1.11 jkatz 224:
1.17 deraadt 225: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 226: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
! 227: CONVERGENCE 2000.
! 228: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
! 229: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
! 230: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
! 231: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
! 232: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
! 233: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 234: <p>
1.17 deraadt 235:
1.23 niklas 236: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 237: CanSecWest.
! 238: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
! 239: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
! 240: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
! 241: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
! 242: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
! 243: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
! 244: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
! 245: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 246: <p>
1.25 deraadt 247:
1.132 ! louis 248: <li><strong>
! 249: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
! 250: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 251: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
! 252: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
! 253: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
! 254: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 255: <p>
1.23 niklas 256:
1.31 deraadt 257: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 258: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
! 259: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
! 260: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
! 261: About 15 OpenBSD team members attented.
! 262: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
! 263: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
! 264: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
! 265: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 266: <p>
1.31 deraadt 267:
1.132 ! louis 268: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
! 269: Thursday February 3, 2000.</a></strong><br>
! 270: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
! 271: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
! 272: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
! 273: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 274: <p>
275:
1.132 ! louis 276: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 277:
1.132 ! louis 278: <li>
! 279: <strong>
! 280: The Bazaar.
! 281: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
! 282: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
! 283: firewalls with OpenBSD.
! 284: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
! 285: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
! 286: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
! 287: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 288: <p>
289:
1.132 ! louis 290: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 291: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 292: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
! 293: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
! 294: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
! 295: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
! 296: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
! 297: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
! 298: There were many other OpenBSD
! 299: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
! 300: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
! 301:
! 302: <ul>
! 303: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
! 304: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
! 305: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
! 306: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
! 307: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
! 308: </ul>
! 309: <p>
! 310:
! 311: <li><strong>
! 312: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
! 313: IP-dagarna 1999
! 314: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
! 315: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
! 316: <p>
! 317:
! 318: <li><strong>
! 319: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
! 320: Linux & Open Source Software '99
! 321: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
! 322: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
! 323: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
! 324: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
! 325: <p>
! 326:
! 327: <li><strong>
! 328: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
! 329: Reflections/Projections 1999
! 330: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 331: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
! 332: developers from the east coast attended as well.
! 333: <p>
! 334:
! 335: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
! 336: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
! 337: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
! 338: (in swedish)</strong><br>
! 339: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
! 340: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
! 341: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
! 342: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
! 343: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
! 344: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
! 345: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
! 346: conference in Stockholm.
! 347: <p>
! 348:
! 349: <li><strong>
! 350: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
! 351: AUUG'99.
! 352: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
! 353: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
! 354: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
! 355: coordinated.
! 356: <p>
! 357:
! 358: <li><strong>
! 359: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
! 360: Usenix Security.
! 361: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 362: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
! 363: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
! 364: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
! 365: significant security roles.
! 366: <p>
! 367:
! 368: <li><strong>
! 369: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
! 370: 45th IETF meeting.
! 371: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
! 372: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
! 373: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
! 374: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
! 375: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
! 376: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
! 377: <p>
1.45 jason 378:
1.132 ! louis 379: <li><strong>
! 380: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
! 381: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 382: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
! 383: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 384: <p>
1.132 ! louis 385:
1.46 deraadt 386: <a name=usenix99>
387: <li><strong>
388: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
389: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 ! louis 390: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 391: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 392: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 393: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
394: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 395: June.)
1.132 ! louis 396: <br>
1.46 deraadt 397: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 ! louis 398: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
! 399:
1.46 deraadt 400: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 401: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 402: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 403: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 404: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
405: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 406: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
407: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 ! louis 408: <br>
1.66 deraadt 409: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 410: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 411: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos<a/>,
412: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
413: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
414: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 ! louis 415: <br>
1.66 deraadt 416: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 417: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 418: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
419: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
420: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
421: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
422: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 423: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
424: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 ! louis 425: <br>
1.66 deraadt 426: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 427: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 428: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
429: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 430: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
431: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 ! louis 432: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 433: <p>
1.46 deraadt 434:
1.51 deraadt 435: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 436: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
! 437: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
! 438: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 439: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
! 440: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
! 441: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
! 442: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
! 443: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 444: <p>
445:
1.53 jakob 446: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 447: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
! 448: 44th IETF meeting.
! 449: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
! 450: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
! 451: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 452: <p>
453:
1.132 ! louis 454: <li><strong>
! 455: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
! 456: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
! 457: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
! 458: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
! 459: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
! 460: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 461: <p>
462:
1.132 ! louis 463: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 464:
1.132 ! louis 465: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
! 466: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
! 467: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
! 468: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
! 469: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 470: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 ! louis 471: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
! 472: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
! 473: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
! 474: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 475: <p>
476:
1.71 niklas 477: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 478: <a name=lisaboston-98>
! 479: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
! 480: 12th Systems Administration Conference
! 481: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
! 482: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
! 483: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
! 484: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
! 485: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
! 486: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
! 487: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
! 488: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
! 489: <br>
! 490: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
! 491: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
! 492: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 493: <p>
494:
1.73 deraadt 495: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 496: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
! 497: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
! 498: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
! 499: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
! 500: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
! 501: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 502: <p>
1.73 deraadt 503:
1.75 mickey 504: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 505: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
! 506: </a></strong><br>
! 507: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
! 508: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
! 509: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
! 510: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
! 511: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 512: <p>
1.73 deraadt 513:
1.80 deraadt 514: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 515: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
! 516: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 517: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
! 518: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
! 519: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 520: <p>
521:
1.93 louis 522: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 523: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
! 524: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 525: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
! 526: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 527: <p>
528:
1.132 ! louis 529: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
! 530: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
! 531: California, USA.</strong></a>
! 532: <br>
! 533: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
! 534: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 535: <p>
536:
1.132 ! louis 537: <a name=defcon98>
! 538: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
! 539: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 540: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
! 541: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
! 542: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
! 543: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
! 544: <br>
! 545: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
! 546: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
! 547: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
! 548: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 549: <p>
1.94 deraadt 550:
1.132 ! louis 551: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
! 552: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 553: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
! 554: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
! 555: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
! 556: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
! 557: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 558: <p>
559:
1.101 wvdputte 560: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 561: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
! 562: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 563: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 ! louis 564: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 565: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
! 566: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
! 567: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
! 568: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
! 569: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
! 570: <br>
! 571: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
! 572: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 573: <p>
574:
1.105 wvdputte 575: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 576: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
! 577: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
! 578: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
! 579: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
! 580: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
! 581: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 582: <br>
1.132 ! louis 583: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
! 584: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 585:
1.132 ! louis 586: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 587:
1.113 deraadt 588: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 589: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
! 590: </strong><br>
! 591: Niels held a
! 592: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
! 593: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
! 594: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 595: <p>
1.132 ! louis 596:
! 597: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
! 598: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
! 599: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
! 600: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 601: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 602:
1.132 ! louis 603: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
! 604: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
! 605: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 606: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
! 607: <br>
! 608: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
! 609: good things about our stance on security... particularily people like
! 610: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 611: <p>
612:
1.125 deraadt 613: <li><strong>
1.132 ! louis 614: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
! 615: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
! 616: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
! 617: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
! 618: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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