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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>
1.141 ! ian 55: OpenBSD will have a booth, as was done last year.
! 56: Ian Darwin will present his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
! 57: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1.138 ian 58: <p>
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60:
61: <hr>
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1.55 deraadt 71: <h2>Past events:</h2>
1.59 deraadt 72: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 73:
1.137 aaron 74: <h3>2001</h3>
75:
76: <li><strong>
77: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
78: </strong><br>
79: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
80: <p>
81:
82: <li><strong>
83: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
84: </strong><br>
85: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
86: <p>
87:
1.132 louis 88: <h3>2000</h3>
89:
90: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 91: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
92: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
93: </strong><br>
94: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
95: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
96: <p>
97:
98: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 99: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
100: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
101: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
102: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
103: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
104: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
105: one of the largest volcanos, called Malinche.
106: <p>
107:
108: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 109: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
110: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
111: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
112: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 113: <p>
1.4 millert 114:
1.132 louis 115: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
116: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
117: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
118: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
119: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
120: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
121: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
122:
123: <ul>
124: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
125: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
126: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
127: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
128: </ul>
1.4 millert 129: <p>
1.132 louis 130:
1.7 deraadt 131: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 132: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
133: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
134: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
135: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
136: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
137: mind (drinks afterwards).
138: <p>
139:
140: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 141: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 142: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
143: questions.
1.32 deraadt 144: <p>
1.1 deraadt 145:
1.132 louis 146: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
147: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
148: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 149: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
150: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 151: <p>
152:
1.132 louis 153: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
154: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
155: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
156: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
157: <ul>
158: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
159: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
160: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
161: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
162: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
163: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 164: <p>
1.132 louis 165:
1.10 provos 166: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 167: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
168: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
169: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
170: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
171: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
172: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
173: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
174: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
175: <br>
176: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
177: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
178: <p>
1.32 deraadt 179:
1.132 louis 180: <li><strong>
181: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
182: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
183: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
184: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
185: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
186: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
187: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
188: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
189: and spoke about
190: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
191: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
192: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
193: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 194: <p>
1.132 louis 195:
1.6 deraadt 196: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 197: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
198: LinuxTag 2000,
199: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
200: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
201: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
202: <br>
203: Christian Weisgerber gave a
204: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
205: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 206: <p>
1.1 deraadt 207:
1.6 deraadt 208: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 209: <a name=usenix2000>
210: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 211: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 212: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
213: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
214: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
215: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
216: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
217: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
218: and some users even discovered so by themselves over.
219: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
220: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
221: <ul>
222:
223: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
224: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
225: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
226: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
227: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
228: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
229:
230: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
231: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
232: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
233: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
234: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
235: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 236:
1.132 louis 237: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
238: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
239: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
240: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 241: <p>
242:
1.132 louis 243: <li><strong>
244: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
245: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
246: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
247: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
248: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
249: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 250: <p>
1.2 deraadt 251:
1.132 louis 252: <li><strong>
253: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
254: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
255: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
256: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
257: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
258: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
259: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
260: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 261: <p>
1.11 jkatz 262:
1.17 deraadt 263: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 264: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
265: CONVERGENCE 2000.
266: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
267: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
268: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
269: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
270: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
271: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 272: <p>
1.17 deraadt 273:
1.23 niklas 274: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 275: CanSecWest.
276: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
277: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
278: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
279: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
280: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
281: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
282: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
283: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 284: <p>
1.25 deraadt 285:
1.132 louis 286: <li><strong>
287: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
288: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
289: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
290: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
291: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
292: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 293: <p>
1.23 niklas 294:
1.31 deraadt 295: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 296: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
297: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
298: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 299: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 300: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
301: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
302: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
303: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 304: <p>
1.31 deraadt 305:
1.132 louis 306: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 307: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 308: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
309: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
310: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
311: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 312: <p>
313:
1.132 louis 314: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 315:
1.132 louis 316: <li>
317: <strong>
318: The Bazaar.
319: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
320: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
321: firewalls with OpenBSD.
322: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
323: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
324: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
325: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 326: <p>
327:
1.132 louis 328: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 329: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 330: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
331: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
332: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
333: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
334: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
335: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
336: There were many other OpenBSD
337: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
338: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
339:
340: <ul>
341: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
342: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
343: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
344: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
345: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
346: </ul>
347: <p>
348:
349: <li><strong>
350: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
351: IP-dagarna 1999
352: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
353: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
354: <p>
355:
356: <li><strong>
357: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
358: Linux & Open Source Software '99
359: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
360: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
361: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
362: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
363: <p>
364:
365: <li><strong>
366: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
367: Reflections/Projections 1999
368: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
369: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
370: developers from the east coast attended as well.
371: <p>
372:
373: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
374: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
375: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
376: (in swedish)</strong><br>
377: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
378: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
379: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
380: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
381: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
382: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
383: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
384: conference in Stockholm.
385: <p>
386:
387: <li><strong>
388: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
389: AUUG'99.
390: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
391: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
392: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
393: coordinated.
394: <p>
395:
396: <li><strong>
397: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
398: Usenix Security.
399: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
400: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
401: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
402: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
403: significant security roles.
404: <p>
405:
406: <li><strong>
407: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
408: 45th IETF meeting.
409: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
410: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
411: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
412: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
413: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
414: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
415: <p>
1.45 jason 416:
1.132 louis 417: <li><strong>
418: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
419: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
420: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
421: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 422: <p>
1.132 louis 423:
1.46 deraadt 424: <a name=usenix99>
425: <li><strong>
426: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
427: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 428: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 429: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 430: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 431: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
432: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 433: June.)
1.132 louis 434: <br>
1.46 deraadt 435: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 436: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
437:
1.46 deraadt 438: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 439: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 440: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 441: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 442: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
443: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 444: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
445: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 446: <br>
1.66 deraadt 447: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 448: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 449: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 450: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
451: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
452: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 453: <br>
1.66 deraadt 454: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 455: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 456: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
457: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
458: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
459: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
460: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 461: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
462: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 463: <br>
1.66 deraadt 464: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 465: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 466: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
467: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 468: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
469: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 470: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 471: <p>
1.46 deraadt 472:
1.51 deraadt 473: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 474: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
475: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
476: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
477: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
478: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
479: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
480: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
481: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 482: <p>
483:
1.53 jakob 484: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 485: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
486: 44th IETF meeting.
487: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
488: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
489: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 490: <p>
491:
1.132 louis 492: <li><strong>
493: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
494: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
495: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
496: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
497: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
498: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 499: <p>
500:
1.132 louis 501: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 502:
1.132 louis 503: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
504: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
505: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
506: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
507: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 508: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 509: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
510: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
511: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
512: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 513: <p>
514:
1.71 niklas 515: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 516: <a name=lisaboston-98>
517: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
518: 12th Systems Administration Conference
519: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
520: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
521: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
522: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
523: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
524: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
525: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
526: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
527: <br>
528: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
529: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
530: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 531: <p>
532:
1.73 deraadt 533: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 534: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
535: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
536: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
537: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
538: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
539: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 540: <p>
1.73 deraadt 541:
1.75 mickey 542: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 543: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 544: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 545: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
546: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
547: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
548: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
549: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 550: <p>
1.73 deraadt 551:
1.80 deraadt 552: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 553: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
554: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
555: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
556: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
557: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 558: <p>
559:
1.93 louis 560: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 561: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
562: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
563: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
564: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 565: <p>
566:
1.132 louis 567: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
568: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
569: California, USA.</strong></a>
570: <br>
571: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
572: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 573: <p>
574:
1.132 louis 575: <a name=defcon98>
576: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
577: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
578: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
579: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
580: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
581: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
582: <br>
583: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
584: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
585: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
586: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 587: <p>
1.94 deraadt 588:
1.132 louis 589: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
590: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
591: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
592: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
593: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
594: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
595: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 596: <p>
597:
1.101 wvdputte 598: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 599: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
600: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 601: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 602: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
603: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
604: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
605: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
606: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
607: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
608: <br>
609: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
610: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 611: <p>
612:
1.105 wvdputte 613: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 614: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
615: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
616: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
617: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
618: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
619: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 620: <br>
1.132 louis 621: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
622: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 623:
1.132 louis 624: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 625:
1.113 deraadt 626: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 627: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
628: </strong><br>
629: Niels held a
630: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
631: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
632: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 633: <p>
1.132 louis 634:
635: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
636: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
637: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
638: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 639: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 640:
1.132 louis 641: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
642: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
643: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
644: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
645: <br>
646: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 647: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 648: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 649: <p>
650:
1.125 deraadt 651: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 652: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
653: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
654: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
655: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
656: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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