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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:
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1.75 mickey 26:
1.132 louis 27: <h3>2001</h3>
28:
29: <li><strong>
30: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
31: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
32: </strong><br>
33: OpenBSD developers will most likely present papers and run a sales table
34: at this conference as they have done in the past.
1.110 deraadt 35: <p>
1.132 louis 36:
1.128 jakob 37: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 38: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
39: </strong><br>
40: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year.
1.128 jakob 41: <p>
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1.55 deraadt 55: <h2>Past events:</h2>
1.59 deraadt 56: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 57:
1.137 ! aaron 58: <h3>2001</h3>
! 59:
! 60: <li><strong>
! 61: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
! 62: </strong><br>
! 63: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
! 64: <p>
! 65:
! 66: <li><strong>
! 67: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
! 68: </strong><br>
! 69: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
! 70: <p>
! 71:
1.132 louis 72: <h3>2000</h3>
73:
74: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 75: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
76: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
77: </strong><br>
78: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
79: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
80: <p>
81:
82: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 83: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
84: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
85: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
86: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
87: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
88: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
89: one of the largest volcanos, called Malinche.
90: <p>
91:
92: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 93: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
94: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
95: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
96: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 97: <p>
1.4 millert 98:
1.132 louis 99: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
100: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
101: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
102: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
103: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
104: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
105: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
106:
107: <ul>
108: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
109: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
110: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
111: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
112: </ul>
1.4 millert 113: <p>
1.132 louis 114:
1.7 deraadt 115: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 116: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
117: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
118: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
119: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
120: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
121: mind (drinks afterwards).
122: <p>
123:
124: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 125: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 126: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
127: questions.
1.32 deraadt 128: <p>
1.1 deraadt 129:
1.132 louis 130: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
131: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
132: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 133: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
134: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 135: <p>
136:
1.132 louis 137: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
138: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
139: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
140: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
141: <ul>
142: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
143: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
144: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
145: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
146: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
147: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 148: <p>
1.132 louis 149:
1.10 provos 150: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 151: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
152: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
153: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
154: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
155: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
156: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
157: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
158: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
159: <br>
160: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
161: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
162: <p>
1.32 deraadt 163:
1.132 louis 164: <li><strong>
165: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
166: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
167: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
168: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
169: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
170: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
171: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
172: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
173: and spoke about
174: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
175: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
176: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
177: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 178: <p>
1.132 louis 179:
1.6 deraadt 180: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 181: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
182: LinuxTag 2000,
183: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
184: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
185: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
186: <br>
187: Christian Weisgerber gave a
188: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
189: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 190: <p>
1.1 deraadt 191:
1.6 deraadt 192: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 193: <a name=usenix2000>
194: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 195: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 196: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
197: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
198: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
199: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
200: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
201: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
202: and some users even discovered so by themselves over.
203: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
204: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
205: <ul>
206:
207: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
208: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
209: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
210: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
211: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
212: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
213:
214: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
215: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
216: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
217: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
218: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
219: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 220:
1.132 louis 221: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
222: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
223: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
224: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 225: <p>
226:
1.132 louis 227: <li><strong>
228: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
229: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
230: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
231: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
232: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
233: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 234: <p>
1.2 deraadt 235:
1.132 louis 236: <li><strong>
237: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
238: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
239: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
240: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
241: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
242: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
243: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
244: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 245: <p>
1.11 jkatz 246:
1.17 deraadt 247: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 248: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
249: CONVERGENCE 2000.
250: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
251: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
252: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
253: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
254: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
255: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 256: <p>
1.17 deraadt 257:
1.23 niklas 258: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 259: CanSecWest.
260: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
261: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
262: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
263: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
264: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
265: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
266: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
267: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 268: <p>
1.25 deraadt 269:
1.132 louis 270: <li><strong>
271: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
272: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
273: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
274: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
275: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
276: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 277: <p>
1.23 niklas 278:
1.31 deraadt 279: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 280: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
281: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
282: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
283: About 15 OpenBSD team members attented.
284: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
285: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
286: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
287: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 288: <p>
1.31 deraadt 289:
1.132 louis 290: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
291: Thursday February 3, 2000.</a></strong><br>
292: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
293: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
294: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
295: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 296: <p>
297:
1.132 louis 298: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 299:
1.132 louis 300: <li>
301: <strong>
302: The Bazaar.
303: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
304: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
305: firewalls with OpenBSD.
306: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
307: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
308: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
309: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 310: <p>
311:
1.132 louis 312: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 313: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 314: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
315: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
316: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
317: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
318: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
319: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
320: There were many other OpenBSD
321: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
322: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
323:
324: <ul>
325: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
326: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
327: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
328: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
329: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
330: </ul>
331: <p>
332:
333: <li><strong>
334: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
335: IP-dagarna 1999
336: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
337: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
338: <p>
339:
340: <li><strong>
341: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
342: Linux & Open Source Software '99
343: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
344: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
345: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
346: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
347: <p>
348:
349: <li><strong>
350: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
351: Reflections/Projections 1999
352: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
353: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
354: developers from the east coast attended as well.
355: <p>
356:
357: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
358: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
359: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
360: (in swedish)</strong><br>
361: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
362: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
363: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
364: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
365: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
366: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
367: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
368: conference in Stockholm.
369: <p>
370:
371: <li><strong>
372: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
373: AUUG'99.
374: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
375: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
376: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
377: coordinated.
378: <p>
379:
380: <li><strong>
381: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
382: Usenix Security.
383: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
384: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
385: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
386: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
387: significant security roles.
388: <p>
389:
390: <li><strong>
391: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
392: 45th IETF meeting.
393: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
394: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
395: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
396: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
397: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
398: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
399: <p>
1.45 jason 400:
1.132 louis 401: <li><strong>
402: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
403: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
404: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
405: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 406: <p>
1.132 louis 407:
1.46 deraadt 408: <a name=usenix99>
409: <li><strong>
410: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
411: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 412: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 413: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 414: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 415: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
416: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 417: June.)
1.132 louis 418: <br>
1.46 deraadt 419: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 420: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
421:
1.46 deraadt 422: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 423: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 424: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 425: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 426: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
427: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 428: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
429: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 430: <br>
1.66 deraadt 431: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 432: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 433: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos<a/>,
434: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
435: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
436: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 437: <br>
1.66 deraadt 438: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 439: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 440: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
441: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
442: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
443: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
444: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 445: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
446: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 447: <br>
1.66 deraadt 448: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 449: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 450: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
451: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 452: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
453: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 454: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 455: <p>
1.46 deraadt 456:
1.51 deraadt 457: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 458: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
459: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
460: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
461: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
462: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
463: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
464: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
465: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 466: <p>
467:
1.53 jakob 468: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 469: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
470: 44th IETF meeting.
471: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
472: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
473: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 474: <p>
475:
1.132 louis 476: <li><strong>
477: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
478: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
479: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
480: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
481: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
482: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 483: <p>
484:
1.132 louis 485: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 486:
1.132 louis 487: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
488: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
489: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
490: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
491: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 492: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 493: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
494: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
495: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
496: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 497: <p>
498:
1.71 niklas 499: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 500: <a name=lisaboston-98>
501: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
502: 12th Systems Administration Conference
503: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
504: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
505: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
506: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
507: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
508: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
509: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
510: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
511: <br>
512: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
513: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
514: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 515: <p>
516:
1.73 deraadt 517: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 518: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
519: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
520: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
521: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
522: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
523: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 524: <p>
1.73 deraadt 525:
1.75 mickey 526: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 527: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
528: </a></strong><br>
529: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
530: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
531: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
532: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
533: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 534: <p>
1.73 deraadt 535:
1.80 deraadt 536: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 537: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
538: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
539: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
540: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
541: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 542: <p>
543:
1.93 louis 544: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 545: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
546: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
547: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
548: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 549: <p>
550:
1.132 louis 551: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
552: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
553: California, USA.</strong></a>
554: <br>
555: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
556: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 557: <p>
558:
1.132 louis 559: <a name=defcon98>
560: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
561: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
562: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
563: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
564: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
565: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
566: <br>
567: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
568: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
569: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
570: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 571: <p>
1.94 deraadt 572:
1.132 louis 573: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
574: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
575: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
576: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
577: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
578: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
579: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 580: <p>
581:
1.101 wvdputte 582: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 583: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
584: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 585: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 586: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
587: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
588: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
589: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
590: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
591: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
592: <br>
593: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
594: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 595: <p>
596:
1.105 wvdputte 597: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 598: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
599: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
600: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
601: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
602: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
603: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 604: <br>
1.132 louis 605: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
606: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 607:
1.132 louis 608: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 609:
1.113 deraadt 610: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 611: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
612: </strong><br>
613: Niels held a
614: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
615: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
616: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 617: <p>
1.132 louis 618:
619: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
620: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
621: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
622: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 623: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 624:
1.132 louis 625: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
626: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
627: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
628: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
629: <br>
630: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
631: good things about our stance on security... particularily people like
632: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 633: <p>
634:
1.125 deraadt 635: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 636: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
637: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
638: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
639: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
640: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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