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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>
1.144 ! dugsong 30: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
! 31: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
! 32: </strong><br>
! 33: <a href="http://www.urisecure.com/">Urisecure</a> will be sponsoring an
! 34: OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters, and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC
! 35: hardware acceleration.
! 36: <p>
! 37:
! 38: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 39: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
40: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
41: </strong><br>
1.142 ian 42: OpenBSD developers will be there, and will be selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1.132 louis 43: at this conference as they have done in the past.
1.110 deraadt 44: <p>
1.132 louis 45:
1.128 jakob 46: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 47: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
48: </strong><br>
1.142 ian 49: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
50: and will have a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1.128 jakob 51: <p>
52:
1.138 ian 53: <li><strong>
54: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
55: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
56: </strong><br>
1.142 ian 57: OpenBSD will have a booth selling CD's, as was done last year.
1.141 ian 58: Ian Darwin will present his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
59: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1.138 ian 60: <p>
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1.55 deraadt 73: <h2>Past events:</h2>
1.59 deraadt 74: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 75:
1.137 aaron 76: <h3>2001</h3>
77:
78: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 79: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
80: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
81: </strong><br>
82: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
83: security community.
84: <p>
85:
86: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 87: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
88: </strong><br>
89: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
90: <p>
91:
92: <li><strong>
93: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
94: </strong><br>
95: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
96: <p>
97:
1.132 louis 98: <h3>2000</h3>
99:
100: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 101: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
102: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
103: </strong><br>
104: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
105: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
106: <p>
107:
108: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 109: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
110: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
111: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
112: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
113: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
114: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
115: one of the largest volcanos, called Malinche.
116: <p>
117:
118: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 119: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
120: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
121: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
122: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 123: <p>
1.4 millert 124:
1.132 louis 125: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
126: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
127: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
128: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
129: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
130: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
131: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
132:
133: <ul>
134: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
135: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
136: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
137: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
138: </ul>
1.4 millert 139: <p>
1.132 louis 140:
1.7 deraadt 141: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 142: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
143: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
144: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
145: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
146: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
147: mind (drinks afterwards).
148: <p>
149:
150: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 151: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 152: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
153: questions.
1.32 deraadt 154: <p>
1.1 deraadt 155:
1.132 louis 156: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
157: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
158: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 159: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
160: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 161: <p>
162:
1.132 louis 163: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
164: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
165: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
166: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
167: <ul>
168: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
169: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
170: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
171: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
172: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
173: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 174: <p>
1.132 louis 175:
1.10 provos 176: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 177: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
178: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
179: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
180: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
181: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
182: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
183: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
184: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
185: <br>
186: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
187: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
188: <p>
1.32 deraadt 189:
1.132 louis 190: <li><strong>
191: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
192: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
193: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
194: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
195: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
196: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
197: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
198: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
199: and spoke about
200: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
201: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
202: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
203: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 204: <p>
1.132 louis 205:
1.6 deraadt 206: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 207: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
208: LinuxTag 2000,
209: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
210: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
211: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
212: <br>
213: Christian Weisgerber gave a
214: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
215: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 216: <p>
1.1 deraadt 217:
1.6 deraadt 218: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 219: <a name=usenix2000>
220: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 221: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 222: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
223: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
224: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
225: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
226: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
227: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
228: and some users even discovered so by themselves over.
229: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
230: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
231: <ul>
232:
233: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
234: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
235: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
236: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
237: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
238: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
239:
240: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
241: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
242: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
243: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
244: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
245: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 246:
1.132 louis 247: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
248: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
249: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
250: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 251: <p>
252:
1.132 louis 253: <li><strong>
254: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
255: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
256: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
257: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
258: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
259: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 260: <p>
1.2 deraadt 261:
1.132 louis 262: <li><strong>
263: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
264: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
265: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
266: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
267: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
268: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
269: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
270: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 271: <p>
1.11 jkatz 272:
1.17 deraadt 273: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 274: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
275: CONVERGENCE 2000.
276: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
277: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
278: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
279: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
280: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
281: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 282: <p>
1.17 deraadt 283:
1.23 niklas 284: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 285: CanSecWest.
286: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
287: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
288: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
289: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
290: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
291: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
292: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
293: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 294: <p>
1.25 deraadt 295:
1.132 louis 296: <li><strong>
297: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
298: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
299: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
300: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
301: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
302: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 303: <p>
1.23 niklas 304:
1.31 deraadt 305: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 306: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
307: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
308: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 309: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 310: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
311: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
312: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
313: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 314: <p>
1.31 deraadt 315:
1.132 louis 316: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 317: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 318: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
319: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
320: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
321: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 322: <p>
323:
1.132 louis 324: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 325:
1.132 louis 326: <li>
327: <strong>
328: The Bazaar.
329: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
330: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
331: firewalls with OpenBSD.
332: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
333: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
334: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
335: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 336: <p>
337:
1.132 louis 338: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 339: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 340: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
341: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
342: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
343: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
344: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
345: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
346: There were many other OpenBSD
347: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
348: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
349:
350: <ul>
351: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
352: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
353: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
354: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
355: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
356: </ul>
357: <p>
358:
359: <li><strong>
360: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
361: IP-dagarna 1999
362: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
363: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><strong>
367: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
368: Linux & Open Source Software '99
369: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
370: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
371: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
372: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
373: <p>
374:
375: <li><strong>
376: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
377: Reflections/Projections 1999
378: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
379: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
380: developers from the east coast attended as well.
381: <p>
382:
383: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
384: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
385: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
386: (in swedish)</strong><br>
387: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
388: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
389: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
390: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
391: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
392: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
393: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
394: conference in Stockholm.
395: <p>
396:
397: <li><strong>
398: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
399: AUUG'99.
400: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
401: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
402: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
403: coordinated.
404: <p>
405:
406: <li><strong>
407: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
408: Usenix Security.
409: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
410: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
411: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
412: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
413: significant security roles.
414: <p>
415:
416: <li><strong>
417: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
418: 45th IETF meeting.
419: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
420: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
421: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
422: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
423: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
424: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
425: <p>
1.45 jason 426:
1.132 louis 427: <li><strong>
428: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
429: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
430: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
431: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 432: <p>
1.132 louis 433:
1.46 deraadt 434: <a name=usenix99>
435: <li><strong>
436: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
437: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 438: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 439: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 440: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 441: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
442: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 443: June.)
1.132 louis 444: <br>
1.46 deraadt 445: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 446: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
447:
1.46 deraadt 448: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 449: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 450: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 451: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 452: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
453: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 454: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
455: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 456: <br>
1.66 deraadt 457: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 458: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 459: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 460: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
461: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
462: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 463: <br>
1.66 deraadt 464: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 465: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 466: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
467: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
468: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
469: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
470: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 471: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
472: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 473: <br>
1.66 deraadt 474: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 475: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 476: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
477: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 478: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
479: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 480: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 481: <p>
1.46 deraadt 482:
1.51 deraadt 483: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 484: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
485: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
486: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
487: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
488: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
489: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
490: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
491: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 492: <p>
493:
1.53 jakob 494: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 495: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
496: 44th IETF meeting.
497: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
498: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
499: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 500: <p>
501:
1.132 louis 502: <li><strong>
503: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
504: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
505: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
506: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
507: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
508: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 509: <p>
510:
1.132 louis 511: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 512:
1.132 louis 513: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
514: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
515: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
516: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
517: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 518: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 519: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
520: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
521: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
522: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 523: <p>
524:
1.71 niklas 525: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 526: <a name=lisaboston-98>
527: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
528: 12th Systems Administration Conference
529: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
530: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
531: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
532: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
533: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
534: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
535: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
536: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
537: <br>
538: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
539: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
540: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 541: <p>
542:
1.73 deraadt 543: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 544: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
545: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
546: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
547: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
548: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
549: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 550: <p>
1.73 deraadt 551:
1.75 mickey 552: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 553: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 554: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 555: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
556: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
557: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
558: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
559: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 560: <p>
1.73 deraadt 561:
1.80 deraadt 562: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 563: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
564: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
565: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
566: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
567: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 568: <p>
569:
1.93 louis 570: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 571: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
572: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
573: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
574: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 575: <p>
576:
1.132 louis 577: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
578: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
579: California, USA.</strong></a>
580: <br>
581: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
582: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 583: <p>
584:
1.132 louis 585: <a name=defcon98>
586: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
587: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
588: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
589: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
590: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
591: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
592: <br>
593: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
594: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
595: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
596: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 597: <p>
1.94 deraadt 598:
1.132 louis 599: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
600: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
601: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
602: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
603: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
604: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
605: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 606: <p>
607:
1.101 wvdputte 608: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 609: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
610: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 611: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 612: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
613: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
614: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
615: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
616: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
617: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
618: <br>
619: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
620: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 621: <p>
622:
1.105 wvdputte 623: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 624: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
625: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
626: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
627: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
628: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
629: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 630: <br>
1.132 louis 631: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
632: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 633:
1.132 louis 634: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 635:
1.113 deraadt 636: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 637: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
638: </strong><br>
639: Niels held a
640: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
641: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
642: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 643: <p>
1.132 louis 644:
645: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
646: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
647: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
648: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 649: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 650:
1.132 louis 651: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
652: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
653: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
654: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
655: <br>
656: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 657: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 658: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 659: <p>
660:
1.125 deraadt 661: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 662: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
663: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
664: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
665: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
666: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 667:
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