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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>2001</h3>
28:
29: <li><strong>
1.136 ! wvdputte 30: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
! 31: </strong><br>
! 32: There is an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
! 33: <p>
! 34:
! 35: <li><strong>
! 36: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
! 37: </strong><br>
! 38: There is an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks scheduled.
! 39: <p>
! 40:
! 41: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 42: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
43: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
44: </strong><br>
45: OpenBSD developers will most likely present papers and run a sales table
46: at this conference as they have done in the past.
1.110 deraadt 47: <p>
1.132 louis 48:
1.128 jakob 49: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 50: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
51: </strong><br>
52: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year.
1.128 jakob 53: <p>
54:
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64: louis@openbsd.org
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1.55 deraadt 67: <h2>Past events:</h2>
1.59 deraadt 68: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 69:
1.132 louis 70: <h3>2000</h3>
71:
72: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 73: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
74: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
75: </strong><br>
76: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
77: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
78: <p>
79:
80: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 81: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
82: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
83: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
84: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
85: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
86: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
87: one of the largest volcanos, called Malinche.
88: <p>
89:
90: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 91: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
92: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
93: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
94: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 95: <p>
1.4 millert 96:
1.132 louis 97: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
98: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
99: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
100: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
101: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
102: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
103: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
104:
105: <ul>
106: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
107: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
108: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
109: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
110: </ul>
1.4 millert 111: <p>
1.132 louis 112:
1.7 deraadt 113: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 114: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
115: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
116: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
117: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
118: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
119: mind (drinks afterwards).
120: <p>
121:
122: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 123: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 124: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
125: questions.
1.32 deraadt 126: <p>
1.1 deraadt 127:
1.132 louis 128: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
129: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
130: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 131: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
132: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 133: <p>
134:
1.132 louis 135: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
136: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
137: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
138: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
139: <ul>
140: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
141: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
142: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
143: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
144: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
145: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 146: <p>
1.132 louis 147:
1.10 provos 148: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 149: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
150: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
151: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
152: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
153: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
154: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
155: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
156: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
157: <br>
158: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
159: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
160: <p>
1.32 deraadt 161:
1.132 louis 162: <li><strong>
163: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
164: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
165: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
166: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
167: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
168: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
169: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
170: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
171: and spoke about
172: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
173: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
174: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
175: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 176: <p>
1.132 louis 177:
1.6 deraadt 178: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 179: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
180: LinuxTag 2000,
181: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
182: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
183: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
184: <br>
185: Christian Weisgerber gave a
186: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
187: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 188: <p>
1.1 deraadt 189:
1.6 deraadt 190: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 191: <a name=usenix2000>
192: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 193: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 194: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
195: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
196: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
197: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
198: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
199: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
200: and some users even discovered so by themselves over.
201: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
202: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
203: <ul>
204:
205: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
206: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
207: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
208: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
209: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
210: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
211:
212: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
213: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
214: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
215: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
216: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
217: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 218:
1.132 louis 219: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
220: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
221: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
222: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 223: <p>
224:
1.132 louis 225: <li><strong>
226: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
227: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
228: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
229: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
230: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
231: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 232: <p>
1.2 deraadt 233:
1.132 louis 234: <li><strong>
235: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
236: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
237: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
238: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
239: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
240: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
241: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
242: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 243: <p>
1.11 jkatz 244:
1.17 deraadt 245: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 246: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
247: CONVERGENCE 2000.
248: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
249: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
250: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
251: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
252: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
253: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 254: <p>
1.17 deraadt 255:
1.23 niklas 256: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 257: CanSecWest.
258: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
259: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
260: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
261: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
262: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
263: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
264: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
265: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 266: <p>
1.25 deraadt 267:
1.132 louis 268: <li><strong>
269: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
270: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
271: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
272: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
273: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
274: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 275: <p>
1.23 niklas 276:
1.31 deraadt 277: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 278: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
279: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
280: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
281: About 15 OpenBSD team members attented.
282: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
283: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
284: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
285: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 286: <p>
1.31 deraadt 287:
1.132 louis 288: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
289: Thursday February 3, 2000.</a></strong><br>
290: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
291: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
292: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
293: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 294: <p>
295:
1.132 louis 296: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 297:
1.132 louis 298: <li>
299: <strong>
300: The Bazaar.
301: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
302: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
303: firewalls with OpenBSD.
304: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
305: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
306: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
307: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 308: <p>
309:
1.132 louis 310: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 311: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 312: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
313: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
314: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
315: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
316: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
317: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
318: There were many other OpenBSD
319: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
320: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
321:
322: <ul>
323: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
324: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
325: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
326: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
327: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
328: </ul>
329: <p>
330:
331: <li><strong>
332: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
333: IP-dagarna 1999
334: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
335: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
336: <p>
337:
338: <li><strong>
339: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
340: Linux & Open Source Software '99
341: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
342: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
343: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
344: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
345: <p>
346:
347: <li><strong>
348: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
349: Reflections/Projections 1999
350: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
351: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
352: developers from the east coast attended as well.
353: <p>
354:
355: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
356: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
357: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
358: (in swedish)</strong><br>
359: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
360: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
361: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
362: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
363: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
364: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
365: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
366: conference in Stockholm.
367: <p>
368:
369: <li><strong>
370: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
371: AUUG'99.
372: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
373: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
374: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
375: coordinated.
376: <p>
377:
378: <li><strong>
379: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
380: Usenix Security.
381: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
382: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
383: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
384: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
385: significant security roles.
386: <p>
387:
388: <li><strong>
389: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
390: 45th IETF meeting.
391: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
392: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
393: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
394: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
395: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
396: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
397: <p>
1.45 jason 398:
1.132 louis 399: <li><strong>
400: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
401: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
402: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
403: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 404: <p>
1.132 louis 405:
1.46 deraadt 406: <a name=usenix99>
407: <li><strong>
408: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
409: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 410: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 411: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 412: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 413: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
414: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 415: June.)
1.132 louis 416: <br>
1.46 deraadt 417: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 418: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
419:
1.46 deraadt 420: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 421: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 422: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 423: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 424: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
425: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 426: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
427: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 428: <br>
1.66 deraadt 429: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 430: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 431: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos<a/>,
432: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
433: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
434: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 435: <br>
1.66 deraadt 436: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 437: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 438: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
439: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
440: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
441: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
442: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 443: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
444: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 445: <br>
1.66 deraadt 446: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 447: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 448: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
449: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 450: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
451: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 452: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 453: <p>
1.46 deraadt 454:
1.51 deraadt 455: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 456: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
457: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
458: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
459: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
460: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
461: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
462: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
463: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 464: <p>
465:
1.53 jakob 466: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 467: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
468: 44th IETF meeting.
469: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
470: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
471: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 472: <p>
473:
1.132 louis 474: <li><strong>
475: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
476: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
477: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
478: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
479: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
480: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 481: <p>
482:
1.132 louis 483: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 484:
1.132 louis 485: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
486: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
487: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
488: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
489: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 490: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 491: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
492: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
493: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
494: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 495: <p>
496:
1.71 niklas 497: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 498: <a name=lisaboston-98>
499: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
500: 12th Systems Administration Conference
501: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
502: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
503: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
504: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
505: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
506: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
507: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
508: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
509: <br>
510: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
511: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
512: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 513: <p>
514:
1.73 deraadt 515: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 516: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
517: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
518: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
519: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
520: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
521: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 522: <p>
1.73 deraadt 523:
1.75 mickey 524: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 525: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
526: </a></strong><br>
527: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
528: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
529: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
530: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
531: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 532: <p>
1.73 deraadt 533:
1.80 deraadt 534: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 535: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
536: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
537: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
538: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
539: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 540: <p>
541:
1.93 louis 542: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 543: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
544: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
545: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
546: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 547: <p>
548:
1.132 louis 549: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
550: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
551: California, USA.</strong></a>
552: <br>
553: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
554: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 555: <p>
556:
1.132 louis 557: <a name=defcon98>
558: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
559: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
560: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
561: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
562: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
563: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
564: <br>
565: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
566: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
567: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
568: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 569: <p>
1.94 deraadt 570:
1.132 louis 571: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
572: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
573: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
574: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
575: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
576: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
577: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 578: <p>
579:
1.101 wvdputte 580: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 581: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
582: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 583: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 584: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
585: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
586: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
587: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
588: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
589: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
590: <br>
591: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
592: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 593: <p>
594:
1.105 wvdputte 595: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 596: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
597: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
598: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
599: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
600: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
601: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 602: <br>
1.132 louis 603: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
604: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 605:
1.132 louis 606: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 607:
1.113 deraadt 608: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 609: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
610: </strong><br>
611: Niels held a
612: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
613: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
614: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 615: <p>
1.132 louis 616:
617: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
618: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
619: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
620: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 621: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 622:
1.132 louis 623: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
624: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
625: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
626: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
627: <br>
628: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
629: good things about our stance on security... particularily people like
630: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 631: <p>
632:
1.125 deraadt 633: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 634: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
635: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
636: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
637: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
638: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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