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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>
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>
42:
1.138 ! ian 43: <li><strong>
! 44: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
! 45: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
! 46: </strong><br>
! 47: OpenBSD developers and users will probably present papers and
! 48: have a booth, as was done last year.
! 49: <p>
1.59 deraadt 50: </dl>
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1.55 deraadt 62: <h2>Past events:</h2>
1.59 deraadt 63: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 64:
1.137 aaron 65: <h3>2001</h3>
66:
67: <li><strong>
68: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
69: </strong><br>
70: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
71: <p>
72:
73: <li><strong>
74: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
75: </strong><br>
76: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
77: <p>
78:
1.132 louis 79: <h3>2000</h3>
80:
81: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 82: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
83: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
84: </strong><br>
85: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
86: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
87: <p>
88:
89: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 90: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
91: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
92: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
93: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
94: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
95: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
96: one of the largest volcanos, called Malinche.
97: <p>
98:
99: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 100: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
101: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
102: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
103: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 104: <p>
1.4 millert 105:
1.132 louis 106: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
107: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
108: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
109: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
110: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
111: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
112: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
113:
114: <ul>
115: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
116: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
117: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
118: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
119: </ul>
1.4 millert 120: <p>
1.132 louis 121:
1.7 deraadt 122: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 123: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
124: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
125: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
126: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
127: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
128: mind (drinks afterwards).
129: <p>
130:
131: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 132: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 133: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
134: questions.
1.32 deraadt 135: <p>
1.1 deraadt 136:
1.132 louis 137: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
138: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
139: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 140: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
141: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 142: <p>
143:
1.132 louis 144: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
145: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
146: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
147: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
148: <ul>
149: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
150: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
151: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
152: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
153: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
154: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 155: <p>
1.132 louis 156:
1.10 provos 157: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 158: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
159: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
160: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
161: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
162: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
163: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
164: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
165: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
166: <br>
167: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
168: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
169: <p>
1.32 deraadt 170:
1.132 louis 171: <li><strong>
172: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
173: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
174: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
175: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
176: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
177: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
178: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
179: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
180: and spoke about
181: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
182: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
183: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
184: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 185: <p>
1.132 louis 186:
1.6 deraadt 187: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 188: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
189: LinuxTag 2000,
190: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
191: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
192: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
193: <br>
194: Christian Weisgerber gave a
195: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
196: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 197: <p>
1.1 deraadt 198:
1.6 deraadt 199: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 200: <a name=usenix2000>
201: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 202: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 203: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
204: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
205: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
206: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
207: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
208: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
209: and some users even discovered so by themselves over.
210: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
211: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
212: <ul>
213:
214: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
215: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
216: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
217: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
218: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
219: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
220:
221: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
222: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
223: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
224: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
225: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
226: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 227:
1.132 louis 228: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
229: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
230: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
231: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 232: <p>
233:
1.132 louis 234: <li><strong>
235: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
236: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
237: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
238: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
239: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
240: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 241: <p>
1.2 deraadt 242:
1.132 louis 243: <li><strong>
244: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
245: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
246: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
247: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
248: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
249: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
250: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
251: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 252: <p>
1.11 jkatz 253:
1.17 deraadt 254: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 255: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
256: CONVERGENCE 2000.
257: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
258: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
259: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
260: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
261: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
262: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 263: <p>
1.17 deraadt 264:
1.23 niklas 265: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 266: CanSecWest.
267: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
268: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
269: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
270: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
271: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
272: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
273: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
274: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 275: <p>
1.25 deraadt 276:
1.132 louis 277: <li><strong>
278: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
279: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
280: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
281: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
282: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
283: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 284: <p>
1.23 niklas 285:
1.31 deraadt 286: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 287: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
288: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
289: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
290: About 15 OpenBSD team members attented.
291: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
292: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
293: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
294: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 295: <p>
1.31 deraadt 296:
1.132 louis 297: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
298: Thursday February 3, 2000.</a></strong><br>
299: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
300: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
301: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
302: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 303: <p>
304:
1.132 louis 305: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 306:
1.132 louis 307: <li>
308: <strong>
309: The Bazaar.
310: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
311: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
312: firewalls with OpenBSD.
313: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
314: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
315: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
316: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 317: <p>
318:
1.132 louis 319: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 320: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 321: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
322: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
323: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
324: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
325: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
326: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
327: There were many other OpenBSD
328: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
329: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
330:
331: <ul>
332: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
333: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
334: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
335: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
336: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
337: </ul>
338: <p>
339:
340: <li><strong>
341: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
342: IP-dagarna 1999
343: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
344: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
345: <p>
346:
347: <li><strong>
348: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
349: Linux & Open Source Software '99
350: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
351: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
352: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
353: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
354: <p>
355:
356: <li><strong>
357: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
358: Reflections/Projections 1999
359: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
360: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
361: developers from the east coast attended as well.
362: <p>
363:
364: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
365: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
366: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
367: (in swedish)</strong><br>
368: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
369: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
370: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
371: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
372: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
373: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
374: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
375: conference in Stockholm.
376: <p>
377:
378: <li><strong>
379: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
380: AUUG'99.
381: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
382: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
383: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
384: coordinated.
385: <p>
386:
387: <li><strong>
388: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
389: Usenix Security.
390: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
391: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
392: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
393: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
394: significant security roles.
395: <p>
396:
397: <li><strong>
398: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
399: 45th IETF meeting.
400: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
401: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
402: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
403: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
404: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
405: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
406: <p>
1.45 jason 407:
1.132 louis 408: <li><strong>
409: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
410: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
411: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
412: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 413: <p>
1.132 louis 414:
1.46 deraadt 415: <a name=usenix99>
416: <li><strong>
417: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
418: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 419: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 420: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 421: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 422: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
423: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 424: June.)
1.132 louis 425: <br>
1.46 deraadt 426: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 427: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
428:
1.46 deraadt 429: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 430: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 431: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 432: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 433: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
434: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 435: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
436: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 437: <br>
1.66 deraadt 438: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 439: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 440: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos<a/>,
441: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
442: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
443: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 444: <br>
1.66 deraadt 445: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 446: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 447: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
448: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
449: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
450: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
451: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 452: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
453: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 454: <br>
1.66 deraadt 455: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 456: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 457: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
458: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 459: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
460: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 461: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 462: <p>
1.46 deraadt 463:
1.51 deraadt 464: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 465: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
466: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
467: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
468: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
469: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
470: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
471: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
472: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 473: <p>
474:
1.53 jakob 475: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 476: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
477: 44th IETF meeting.
478: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
479: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
480: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 481: <p>
482:
1.132 louis 483: <li><strong>
484: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
485: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
486: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
487: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
488: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
489: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 490: <p>
491:
1.132 louis 492: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 493:
1.132 louis 494: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
495: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
496: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
497: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
498: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 499: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 500: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
501: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
502: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
503: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 504: <p>
505:
1.71 niklas 506: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 507: <a name=lisaboston-98>
508: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
509: 12th Systems Administration Conference
510: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
511: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
512: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
513: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
514: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
515: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
516: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
517: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
518: <br>
519: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
520: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
521: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 522: <p>
523:
1.73 deraadt 524: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 525: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
526: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
527: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
528: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
529: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
530: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 531: <p>
1.73 deraadt 532:
1.75 mickey 533: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 534: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
535: </a></strong><br>
536: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
537: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
538: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
539: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
540: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 541: <p>
1.73 deraadt 542:
1.80 deraadt 543: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 544: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
545: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
546: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
547: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
548: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 549: <p>
550:
1.93 louis 551: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 552: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
553: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
554: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
555: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 556: <p>
557:
1.132 louis 558: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
559: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
560: California, USA.</strong></a>
561: <br>
562: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
563: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 564: <p>
565:
1.132 louis 566: <a name=defcon98>
567: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
568: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
569: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
570: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
571: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
572: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
573: <br>
574: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
575: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
576: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
577: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 578: <p>
1.94 deraadt 579:
1.132 louis 580: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
581: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
582: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
583: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
584: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
585: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
586: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 587: <p>
588:
1.101 wvdputte 589: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 590: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
591: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 592: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 593: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
594: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
595: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
596: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
597: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
598: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
599: <br>
600: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
601: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 602: <p>
603:
1.105 wvdputte 604: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 605: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
606: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
607: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
608: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
609: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
610: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 611: <br>
1.132 louis 612: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
613: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 614:
1.132 louis 615: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 616:
1.113 deraadt 617: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 618: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
619: </strong><br>
620: Niels held a
621: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
622: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
623: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 624: <p>
1.132 louis 625:
626: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
627: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
628: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
629: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 630: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 631:
1.132 louis 632: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
633: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
634: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
635: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
636: <br>
637: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
638: good things about our stance on security... particularily people like
639: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 640: <p>
641:
1.125 deraadt 642: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 643: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
644: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
645: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
646: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
647: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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