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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>
22:
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:
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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>
1.133 ! deraadt 71: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
! 72: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
! 73: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
! 74: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
! 75: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
! 76: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
! 77: one of the largest volcanos, called Malinche.
! 78: <p>
! 79:
! 80: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 81: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
82: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
83: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
84: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 85: <p>
1.4 millert 86:
1.132 louis 87: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
88: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
89: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
90: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
91: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
92: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
93: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
94:
95: <ul>
96: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
97: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
98: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
99: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
100: </ul>
1.4 millert 101: <p>
1.132 louis 102:
1.7 deraadt 103: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 104: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
105: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
106: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
107: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
108: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
109: mind (drinks afterwards).
110: <p>
111:
112: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
113: October 18-20, 2000. Monerey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
114: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
115: questions.
1.32 deraadt 116: <p>
1.1 deraadt 117:
1.132 louis 118: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
119: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
120: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 ! deraadt 121: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
! 122: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 123: <p>
124:
1.132 louis 125: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
126: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
127: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
128: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
129: <ul>
130: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
131: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
132: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
133: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
134: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
135: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 136: <p>
1.132 louis 137:
1.10 provos 138: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 139: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
140: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
141: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
142: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
143: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
144: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
145: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
146: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
147: <br>
148: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
149: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
150: <p>
1.32 deraadt 151:
1.132 louis 152: <li><strong>
153: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
154: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
155: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
156: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
157: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
158: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
159: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
160: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
161: and spoke about
162: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
163: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
164: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
165: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 166: <p>
1.132 louis 167:
1.6 deraadt 168: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 169: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
170: LinuxTag 2000,
171: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
172: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
173: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
174: <br>
175: Christian Weisgerber gave a
176: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
177: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 178: <p>
1.1 deraadt 179:
1.6 deraadt 180: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 181: <a name=usenix2000>
182: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 183: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 184: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
185: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
186: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
187: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
188: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
189: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
190: and some users even discovered so by themselves over.
191: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
192: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
193: <ul>
194:
195: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
196: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
197: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
198: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
199: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
200: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
201:
202: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
203: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
204: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
205: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
206: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
207: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 208:
1.132 louis 209: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
210: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
211: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
212: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 213: <p>
214:
1.132 louis 215: <li><strong>
216: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
217: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
218: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
219: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
220: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
221: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 222: <p>
1.2 deraadt 223:
1.132 louis 224: <li><strong>
225: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
226: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
227: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
228: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
229: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
230: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
231: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
232: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 233: <p>
1.11 jkatz 234:
1.17 deraadt 235: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 236: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
237: CONVERGENCE 2000.
238: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
239: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
240: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
241: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
242: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
243: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 244: <p>
1.17 deraadt 245:
1.23 niklas 246: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 247: CanSecWest.
248: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
249: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
250: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
251: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
252: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
253: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
254: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
255: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 256: <p>
1.25 deraadt 257:
1.132 louis 258: <li><strong>
259: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
260: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
261: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
262: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
263: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
264: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 265: <p>
1.23 niklas 266:
1.31 deraadt 267: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 268: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
269: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
270: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
271: About 15 OpenBSD team members attented.
272: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
273: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
274: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
275: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 276: <p>
1.31 deraadt 277:
1.132 louis 278: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
279: Thursday February 3, 2000.</a></strong><br>
280: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
281: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
282: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
283: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 284: <p>
285:
1.132 louis 286: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 287:
1.132 louis 288: <li>
289: <strong>
290: The Bazaar.
291: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
292: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
293: firewalls with OpenBSD.
294: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
295: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
296: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
297: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 298: <p>
299:
1.132 louis 300: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 301: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 302: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
303: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
304: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
305: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
306: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
307: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
308: There were many other OpenBSD
309: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
310: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
311:
312: <ul>
313: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
314: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
315: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
316: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
317: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
318: </ul>
319: <p>
320:
321: <li><strong>
322: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
323: IP-dagarna 1999
324: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
325: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
326: <p>
327:
328: <li><strong>
329: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
330: Linux & Open Source Software '99
331: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
332: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
333: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
334: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
335: <p>
336:
337: <li><strong>
338: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
339: Reflections/Projections 1999
340: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
341: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
342: developers from the east coast attended as well.
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
346: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
347: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
348: (in swedish)</strong><br>
349: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
350: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
351: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
352: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
353: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
354: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
355: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
356: conference in Stockholm.
357: <p>
358:
359: <li><strong>
360: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
361: AUUG'99.
362: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
363: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
364: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
365: coordinated.
366: <p>
367:
368: <li><strong>
369: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
370: Usenix Security.
371: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
372: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
373: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
374: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
375: significant security roles.
376: <p>
377:
378: <li><strong>
379: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
380: 45th IETF meeting.
381: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
382: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
383: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
384: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
385: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
386: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
387: <p>
1.45 jason 388:
1.132 louis 389: <li><strong>
390: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
391: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
392: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
393: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 394: <p>
1.132 louis 395:
1.46 deraadt 396: <a name=usenix99>
397: <li><strong>
398: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
399: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 400: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 401: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 402: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 403: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
404: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 405: June.)
1.132 louis 406: <br>
1.46 deraadt 407: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 408: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
409:
1.46 deraadt 410: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 411: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 412: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 413: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 414: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
415: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 416: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
417: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 418: <br>
1.66 deraadt 419: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 420: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 421: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos<a/>,
422: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
423: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
424: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 425: <br>
1.66 deraadt 426: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 427: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 428: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
429: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
430: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
431: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
432: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 433: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
434: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 435: <br>
1.66 deraadt 436: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 437: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 438: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
439: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 440: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
441: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 442: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 443: <p>
1.46 deraadt 444:
1.51 deraadt 445: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 446: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
447: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
448: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
449: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
450: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
451: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
452: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
453: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 454: <p>
455:
1.53 jakob 456: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 457: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
458: 44th IETF meeting.
459: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
460: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
461: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 462: <p>
463:
1.132 louis 464: <li><strong>
465: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
466: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
467: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
468: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
469: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
470: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 471: <p>
472:
1.132 louis 473: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 474:
1.132 louis 475: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
476: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
477: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
478: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
479: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 480: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 481: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
482: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
483: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
484: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 485: <p>
486:
1.71 niklas 487: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 488: <a name=lisaboston-98>
489: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
490: 12th Systems Administration Conference
491: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
492: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
493: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
494: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
495: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
496: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
497: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
498: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
499: <br>
500: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
501: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
502: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 503: <p>
504:
1.73 deraadt 505: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 506: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
507: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
508: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
509: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
510: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
511: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 512: <p>
1.73 deraadt 513:
1.75 mickey 514: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 515: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
516: </a></strong><br>
517: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
518: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
519: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
520: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
521: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 522: <p>
1.73 deraadt 523:
1.80 deraadt 524: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 525: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
526: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
527: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
528: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
529: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 530: <p>
531:
1.93 louis 532: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 533: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
534: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
535: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
536: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 537: <p>
538:
1.132 louis 539: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
540: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
541: California, USA.</strong></a>
542: <br>
543: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
544: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 545: <p>
546:
1.132 louis 547: <a name=defcon98>
548: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
549: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
550: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
551: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
552: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
553: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
554: <br>
555: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
556: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
557: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
558: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 559: <p>
1.94 deraadt 560:
1.132 louis 561: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
562: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
563: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
564: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
565: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
566: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
567: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 568: <p>
569:
1.101 wvdputte 570: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 571: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
572: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 573: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 574: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
575: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
576: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
577: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
578: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
579: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
580: <br>
581: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
582: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 583: <p>
584:
1.105 wvdputte 585: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 586: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
587: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
588: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
589: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
590: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
591: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 592: <br>
1.132 louis 593: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
594: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 595:
1.132 louis 596: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 597:
1.113 deraadt 598: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 599: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
600: </strong><br>
601: Niels held a
602: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
603: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
604: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 605: <p>
1.132 louis 606:
607: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
608: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
609: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
610: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 611: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 612:
1.132 louis 613: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
614: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
615: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
616: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
617: <br>
618: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
619: good things about our stance on security... particularily people like
620: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 621: <p>
622:
1.125 deraadt 623: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 624: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
625: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
626: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
627: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
628: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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