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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>
1.142 ! ian 41: OpenBSD developers will be there, and will be selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1.132 louis 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>
1.142 ! ian 48: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
! 49: and will have a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1.128 jakob 50: <p>
51:
1.138 ian 52: <li><strong>
53: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
54: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
55: </strong><br>
1.142 ! ian 56: OpenBSD will have a booth selling CD's, as was done last year.
1.141 ian 57: Ian Darwin will present his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
58: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1.138 ian 59: <p>
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1.55 deraadt 72: <h2>Past events:</h2>
1.59 deraadt 73: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 74:
1.137 aaron 75: <h3>2001</h3>
76:
77: <li><strong>
78: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
79: </strong><br>
80: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
81: <p>
82:
83: <li><strong>
84: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
85: </strong><br>
86: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
87: <p>
88:
1.132 louis 89: <h3>2000</h3>
90:
91: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 92: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
93: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
94: </strong><br>
95: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
96: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
97: <p>
98:
99: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 100: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
101: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
102: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
103: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
104: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
105: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
106: one of the largest volcanos, called Malinche.
107: <p>
108:
109: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 110: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
111: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
112: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
113: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 114: <p>
1.4 millert 115:
1.132 louis 116: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
117: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
118: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
119: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
120: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
121: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
122: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
123:
124: <ul>
125: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
126: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
127: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
128: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
129: </ul>
1.4 millert 130: <p>
1.132 louis 131:
1.7 deraadt 132: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 133: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
134: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
135: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
136: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
137: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
138: mind (drinks afterwards).
139: <p>
140:
141: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 142: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 143: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
144: questions.
1.32 deraadt 145: <p>
1.1 deraadt 146:
1.132 louis 147: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
148: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
149: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 150: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
151: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 152: <p>
153:
1.132 louis 154: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
155: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
156: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
157: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
158: <ul>
159: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
160: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
161: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
162: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
163: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
164: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 165: <p>
1.132 louis 166:
1.10 provos 167: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 168: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
169: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
170: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
171: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
172: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
173: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
174: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
175: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
176: <br>
177: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
178: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
179: <p>
1.32 deraadt 180:
1.132 louis 181: <li><strong>
182: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
183: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
184: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
185: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
186: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
187: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
188: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
189: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
190: and spoke about
191: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
192: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
193: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
194: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 195: <p>
1.132 louis 196:
1.6 deraadt 197: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 198: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
199: LinuxTag 2000,
200: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
201: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
202: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
203: <br>
204: Christian Weisgerber gave a
205: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
206: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 207: <p>
1.1 deraadt 208:
1.6 deraadt 209: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 210: <a name=usenix2000>
211: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 212: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 213: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
214: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
215: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
216: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
217: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
218: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
219: and some users even discovered so by themselves over.
220: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
221: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
222: <ul>
223:
224: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
225: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
226: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
227: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
228: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
229: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
230:
231: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
232: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
233: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
234: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
235: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
236: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 237:
1.132 louis 238: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
239: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
240: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
241: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 242: <p>
243:
1.132 louis 244: <li><strong>
245: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
246: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
247: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
248: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
249: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
250: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 251: <p>
1.2 deraadt 252:
1.132 louis 253: <li><strong>
254: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
255: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
256: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
257: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
258: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
259: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
260: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
261: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 262: <p>
1.11 jkatz 263:
1.17 deraadt 264: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 265: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
266: CONVERGENCE 2000.
267: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
268: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
269: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
270: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
271: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
272: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 273: <p>
1.17 deraadt 274:
1.23 niklas 275: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 276: CanSecWest.
277: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
278: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
279: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
280: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
281: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
282: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
283: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
284: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 285: <p>
1.25 deraadt 286:
1.132 louis 287: <li><strong>
288: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
289: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
290: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
291: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
292: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
293: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 294: <p>
1.23 niklas 295:
1.31 deraadt 296: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 297: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
298: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
299: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 300: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 301: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
302: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
303: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
304: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 305: <p>
1.31 deraadt 306:
1.132 louis 307: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 308: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 309: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
310: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
311: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
312: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 313: <p>
314:
1.132 louis 315: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 316:
1.132 louis 317: <li>
318: <strong>
319: The Bazaar.
320: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
321: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
322: firewalls with OpenBSD.
323: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
324: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
325: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
326: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 327: <p>
328:
1.132 louis 329: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 330: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 331: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
332: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
333: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
334: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
335: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
336: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
337: There were many other OpenBSD
338: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
339: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
340:
341: <ul>
342: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
343: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
344: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
345: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
346: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
347: </ul>
348: <p>
349:
350: <li><strong>
351: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
352: IP-dagarna 1999
353: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
354: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
355: <p>
356:
357: <li><strong>
358: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
359: Linux & Open Source Software '99
360: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
361: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
362: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
363: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><strong>
367: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
368: Reflections/Projections 1999
369: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
370: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
371: developers from the east coast attended as well.
372: <p>
373:
374: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
375: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
376: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
377: (in swedish)</strong><br>
378: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
379: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
380: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
381: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
382: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
383: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
384: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
385: conference in Stockholm.
386: <p>
387:
388: <li><strong>
389: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
390: AUUG'99.
391: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
392: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
393: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
394: coordinated.
395: <p>
396:
397: <li><strong>
398: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
399: Usenix Security.
400: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
401: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
402: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
403: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
404: significant security roles.
405: <p>
406:
407: <li><strong>
408: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
409: 45th IETF meeting.
410: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
411: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
412: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
413: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
414: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
415: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
416: <p>
1.45 jason 417:
1.132 louis 418: <li><strong>
419: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
420: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
421: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
422: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 423: <p>
1.132 louis 424:
1.46 deraadt 425: <a name=usenix99>
426: <li><strong>
427: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
428: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 429: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 430: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 431: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 432: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
433: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 434: June.)
1.132 louis 435: <br>
1.46 deraadt 436: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 437: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
438:
1.46 deraadt 439: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 440: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 441: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 442: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 443: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
444: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 445: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
446: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 447: <br>
1.66 deraadt 448: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 449: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 450: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 451: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
452: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
453: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 454: <br>
1.66 deraadt 455: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 456: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 457: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
458: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
459: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
460: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
461: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 462: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
463: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 464: <br>
1.66 deraadt 465: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 466: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 467: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
468: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 469: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
470: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 471: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 472: <p>
1.46 deraadt 473:
1.51 deraadt 474: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 475: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
476: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
477: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
478: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
479: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
480: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
481: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
482: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 483: <p>
484:
1.53 jakob 485: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 486: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
487: 44th IETF meeting.
488: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
489: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
490: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 491: <p>
492:
1.132 louis 493: <li><strong>
494: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
495: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
496: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
497: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
498: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
499: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 500: <p>
501:
1.132 louis 502: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 503:
1.132 louis 504: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
505: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
506: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
507: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
508: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 509: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 510: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
511: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
512: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
513: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 514: <p>
515:
1.71 niklas 516: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 517: <a name=lisaboston-98>
518: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
519: 12th Systems Administration Conference
520: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
521: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
522: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
523: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
524: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
525: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
526: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
527: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
528: <br>
529: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
530: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
531: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 532: <p>
533:
1.73 deraadt 534: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 535: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
536: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
537: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
538: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
539: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
540: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 541: <p>
1.73 deraadt 542:
1.75 mickey 543: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 544: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 545: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 546: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
547: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
548: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
549: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
550: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 551: <p>
1.73 deraadt 552:
1.80 deraadt 553: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 554: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
555: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
556: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
557: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
558: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 559: <p>
560:
1.93 louis 561: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 562: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
563: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
564: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
565: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 566: <p>
567:
1.132 louis 568: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
569: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
570: California, USA.</strong></a>
571: <br>
572: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
573: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 574: <p>
575:
1.132 louis 576: <a name=defcon98>
577: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
578: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
579: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
580: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
581: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
582: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
583: <br>
584: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
585: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
586: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
587: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 588: <p>
1.94 deraadt 589:
1.132 louis 590: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
591: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
592: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
593: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
594: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
595: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
596: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 597: <p>
598:
1.101 wvdputte 599: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 600: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
601: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 602: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 603: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
604: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
605: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
606: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
607: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
608: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
609: <br>
610: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
611: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 612: <p>
613:
1.105 wvdputte 614: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 615: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
616: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
617: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
618: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
619: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
620: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 621: <br>
1.132 louis 622: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
623: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 624:
1.132 louis 625: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 626:
1.113 deraadt 627: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 628: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
629: </strong><br>
630: Niels held a
631: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
632: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
633: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 634: <p>
1.132 louis 635:
636: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
637: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
638: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
639: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 640: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 641:
1.132 louis 642: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
643: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
644: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
645: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
646: <br>
647: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 648: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 649: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 650: <p>
651:
1.125 deraadt 652: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 653: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
654: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
655: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
656: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
657: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 658:
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