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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>
1.139 dugsong 30: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
31: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
32: </strong><br>
33: Dug Song will be giving a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the
34: Korean security community.
35: <p>
36:
37: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 38: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
39: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
40: </strong><br>
41: OpenBSD developers will most likely present papers and run a sales table
42: at this conference as they have done in the past.
1.110 deraadt 43: <p>
1.132 louis 44:
1.128 jakob 45: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 46: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
47: </strong><br>
48: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year.
1.128 jakob 49: <p>
50:
1.138 ian 51: <li><strong>
52: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
53: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
54: </strong><br>
55: OpenBSD developers and users will probably present papers and
56: have a booth, as was done last year.
57: <p>
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1.55 deraadt 70: <h2>Past events:</h2>
1.59 deraadt 71: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 72:
1.137 aaron 73: <h3>2001</h3>
74:
75: <li><strong>
76: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
77: </strong><br>
78: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
79: <p>
80:
81: <li><strong>
82: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
83: </strong><br>
84: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
85: <p>
86:
1.132 louis 87: <h3>2000</h3>
88:
89: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 90: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
91: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
92: </strong><br>
93: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
94: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
95: <p>
96:
97: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 98: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
99: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
100: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
101: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
102: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
103: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
104: one of the largest volcanos, called Malinche.
105: <p>
106:
107: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 108: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
109: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
110: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
111: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 112: <p>
1.4 millert 113:
1.132 louis 114: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
115: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
116: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
117: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
118: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
119: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
120: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
121:
122: <ul>
123: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
124: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
125: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
126: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
127: </ul>
1.4 millert 128: <p>
1.132 louis 129:
1.7 deraadt 130: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 131: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
132: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
133: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
134: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
135: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
136: mind (drinks afterwards).
137: <p>
138:
139: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 140: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 141: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
142: questions.
1.32 deraadt 143: <p>
1.1 deraadt 144:
1.132 louis 145: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
146: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
147: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 148: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
149: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 150: <p>
151:
1.132 louis 152: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
153: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
154: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
155: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
156: <ul>
157: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
158: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
159: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
160: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
161: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
162: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 163: <p>
1.132 louis 164:
1.10 provos 165: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 166: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
167: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
168: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
169: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
170: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
171: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
172: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
173: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
174: <br>
175: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
176: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
177: <p>
1.32 deraadt 178:
1.132 louis 179: <li><strong>
180: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
181: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
182: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
183: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
184: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
185: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
186: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
187: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
188: and spoke about
189: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
190: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
191: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
192: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 193: <p>
1.132 louis 194:
1.6 deraadt 195: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 196: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
197: LinuxTag 2000,
198: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
199: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
200: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
201: <br>
202: Christian Weisgerber gave a
203: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
204: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 205: <p>
1.1 deraadt 206:
1.6 deraadt 207: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 208: <a name=usenix2000>
209: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 210: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 211: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
212: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
213: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
214: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
215: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
216: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
217: and some users even discovered so by themselves over.
218: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
219: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
220: <ul>
221:
222: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
223: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
224: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
225: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
226: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
227: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
228:
229: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
230: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
231: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
232: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
233: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
234: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 235:
1.132 louis 236: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
237: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
238: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
239: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 240: <p>
241:
1.132 louis 242: <li><strong>
243: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
244: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
245: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
246: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
247: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
248: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 249: <p>
1.2 deraadt 250:
1.132 louis 251: <li><strong>
252: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
253: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
254: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
255: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
256: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
257: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
258: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
259: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 260: <p>
1.11 jkatz 261:
1.17 deraadt 262: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 263: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
264: CONVERGENCE 2000.
265: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
266: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
267: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
268: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
269: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
270: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 271: <p>
1.17 deraadt 272:
1.23 niklas 273: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 274: CanSecWest.
275: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
276: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
277: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
278: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
279: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
280: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
281: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
282: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 283: <p>
1.25 deraadt 284:
1.132 louis 285: <li><strong>
286: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
287: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
288: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
289: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
290: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
291: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 292: <p>
1.23 niklas 293:
1.31 deraadt 294: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 295: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
296: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
297: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 ! jufi 298: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 299: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
300: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
301: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
302: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 303: <p>
1.31 deraadt 304:
1.132 louis 305: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 ! jufi 306: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 307: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
308: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
309: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
310: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 311: <p>
312:
1.132 louis 313: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 314:
1.132 louis 315: <li>
316: <strong>
317: The Bazaar.
318: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
319: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
320: firewalls with OpenBSD.
321: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
322: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
323: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
324: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 325: <p>
326:
1.132 louis 327: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 328: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 329: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
330: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
331: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
332: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
333: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
334: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
335: There were many other OpenBSD
336: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
337: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
338:
339: <ul>
340: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
341: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
342: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
343: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
344: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
345: </ul>
346: <p>
347:
348: <li><strong>
349: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
350: IP-dagarna 1999
351: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
352: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
353: <p>
354:
355: <li><strong>
356: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
357: Linux & Open Source Software '99
358: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
359: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
360: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
361: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
362: <p>
363:
364: <li><strong>
365: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
366: Reflections/Projections 1999
367: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
368: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
369: developers from the east coast attended as well.
370: <p>
371:
372: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
373: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
374: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
375: (in swedish)</strong><br>
376: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
377: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
378: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
379: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
380: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
381: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
382: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
383: conference in Stockholm.
384: <p>
385:
386: <li><strong>
387: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
388: AUUG'99.
389: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
390: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
391: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
392: coordinated.
393: <p>
394:
395: <li><strong>
396: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
397: Usenix Security.
398: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
399: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
400: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
401: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
402: significant security roles.
403: <p>
404:
405: <li><strong>
406: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
407: 45th IETF meeting.
408: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
409: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
410: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
411: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
412: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
413: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
414: <p>
1.45 jason 415:
1.132 louis 416: <li><strong>
417: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
418: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
419: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
420: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 421: <p>
1.132 louis 422:
1.46 deraadt 423: <a name=usenix99>
424: <li><strong>
425: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
426: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 427: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 428: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 429: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 430: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
431: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 432: June.)
1.132 louis 433: <br>
1.46 deraadt 434: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 435: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
436:
1.46 deraadt 437: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 438: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 439: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 440: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 441: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
442: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 443: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
444: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 445: <br>
1.66 deraadt 446: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 447: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 ! jufi 448: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 449: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
450: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
451: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 452: <br>
1.66 deraadt 453: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 454: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 455: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
456: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
457: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
458: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
459: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 460: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
461: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 462: <br>
1.66 deraadt 463: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 464: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 465: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
466: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 467: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
468: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 469: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 470: <p>
1.46 deraadt 471:
1.51 deraadt 472: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 473: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
474: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
475: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
476: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
477: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
478: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
479: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
480: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 481: <p>
482:
1.53 jakob 483: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 484: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
485: 44th IETF meeting.
486: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
487: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
488: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 489: <p>
490:
1.132 louis 491: <li><strong>
492: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
493: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
494: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
495: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
496: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
497: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 498: <p>
499:
1.132 louis 500: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 501:
1.132 louis 502: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
503: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
504: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
505: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
506: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 507: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 508: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
509: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
510: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
511: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 512: <p>
513:
1.71 niklas 514: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 515: <a name=lisaboston-98>
516: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
517: 12th Systems Administration Conference
518: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
519: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
520: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
521: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
522: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
523: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
524: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
525: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
526: <br>
527: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
528: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
529: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 530: <p>
531:
1.73 deraadt 532: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 533: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
534: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
535: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
536: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
537: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
538: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 539: <p>
1.73 deraadt 540:
1.75 mickey 541: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 542: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 ! jufi 543: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 544: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
545: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
546: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
547: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
548: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 549: <p>
1.73 deraadt 550:
1.80 deraadt 551: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 552: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
553: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
554: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
555: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
556: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 557: <p>
558:
1.93 louis 559: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 560: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
561: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
562: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
563: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 564: <p>
565:
1.132 louis 566: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
567: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
568: California, USA.</strong></a>
569: <br>
570: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
571: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 572: <p>
573:
1.132 louis 574: <a name=defcon98>
575: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
576: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
577: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
578: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
579: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
580: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
581: <br>
582: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
583: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
584: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
585: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 586: <p>
1.94 deraadt 587:
1.132 louis 588: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
589: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
590: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
591: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
592: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
593: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
594: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 595: <p>
596:
1.101 wvdputte 597: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 598: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
599: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 600: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 601: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
602: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
603: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
604: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
605: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
606: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
607: <br>
608: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
609: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 610: <p>
611:
1.105 wvdputte 612: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 613: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
614: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
615: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
616: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
617: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
618: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 619: <br>
1.132 louis 620: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
621: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 622:
1.132 louis 623: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 624:
1.113 deraadt 625: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 626: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
627: </strong><br>
628: Niels held a
629: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
630: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
631: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 632: <p>
1.132 louis 633:
634: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
635: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
636: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
637: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 638: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 639:
1.132 louis 640: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
641: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
642: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
643: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
644: <br>
645: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 ! jufi 646: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 647: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 648: <p>
649:
1.125 deraadt 650: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 651: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
652: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
653: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
654: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
655: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 656:
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