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1.78 louis 15: <h2><font color=#e00000>Events</font></h2>
16: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
17: give papers, and organise "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
18: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet like
19: minded people.
1.8 deraadt 20:
1.78 louis 21: <hr>
22:
23: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 24:
1.59 deraadt 25: <dl>
1.75 mickey 26:
1.132 louis 27: <h3>2001</h3>
28:
29: <li><strong>
30: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
31: </strong><br>
1.142 ian 32: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
33: and will have a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1.128 jakob 34: <p>
35:
1.138 ian 36: <li><strong>
37: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
38: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
39: </strong><br>
1.142 ian 40: OpenBSD will have a booth selling CD's, as was done last year.
1.141 ian 41: Ian Darwin will present his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
42: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1.138 ian 43: <p>
1.59 deraadt 44: </dl>
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1.132 louis 52: Thanks
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1.55 deraadt 56: <h2>Past events:</h2>
1.59 deraadt 57: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 58:
1.137 aaron 59: <h3>2001</h3>
60:
61: <li><strong>
1.146 ! krw 62: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
! 63: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
! 64: </strong><br>
! 65: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
! 66: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
! 67: <p>
! 68:
! 69: <li><strong>
! 70: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
! 71: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
! 72: </strong><br>
! 73: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
! 74: <p>
! 75:
! 76: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 77: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
78: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
79: </strong><br>
80: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
81: security community.
82: <p>
83:
84: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 85: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
86: </strong><br>
87: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
88: <p>
89:
90: <li><strong>
91: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
92: </strong><br>
93: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
94: <p>
95:
1.132 louis 96: <h3>2000</h3>
97:
98: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 99: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
100: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
101: </strong><br>
102: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
103: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
104: <p>
105:
106: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 107: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
108: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
109: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
110: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
111: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
112: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
113: one of the largest volcanos, called Malinche.
114: <p>
115:
116: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 117: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
118: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
119: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
120: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 121: <p>
1.4 millert 122:
1.132 louis 123: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
124: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
125: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
126: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
127: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
128: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
129: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
130:
131: <ul>
132: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
133: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
134: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
135: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
136: </ul>
1.4 millert 137: <p>
1.132 louis 138:
1.7 deraadt 139: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 140: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
141: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
142: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
143: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
144: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
145: mind (drinks afterwards).
146: <p>
147:
148: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 149: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 150: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
151: questions.
1.32 deraadt 152: <p>
1.1 deraadt 153:
1.132 louis 154: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
155: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
156: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 157: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
158: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 159: <p>
160:
1.132 louis 161: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
162: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
163: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
164: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
165: <ul>
166: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
167: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
168: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
169: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
170: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
171: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 172: <p>
1.132 louis 173:
1.10 provos 174: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 175: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
176: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
177: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
178: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
179: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
180: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
181: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
182: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
183: <br>
184: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
185: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
186: <p>
1.32 deraadt 187:
1.132 louis 188: <li><strong>
189: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
190: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
191: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
192: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
193: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
194: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
195: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
196: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
197: and spoke about
198: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
199: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
200: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
201: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 202: <p>
1.132 louis 203:
1.6 deraadt 204: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 205: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
206: LinuxTag 2000,
207: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
208: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
209: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
210: <br>
211: Christian Weisgerber gave a
212: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
213: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 214: <p>
1.1 deraadt 215:
1.6 deraadt 216: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 217: <a name=usenix2000>
218: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 219: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 220: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
221: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
222: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
223: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
224: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
225: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
226: and some users even discovered so by themselves over.
227: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
228: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
229: <ul>
230:
231: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
232: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
233: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
234: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
235: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
236: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
237:
238: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
239: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
240: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
241: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
242: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
243: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 244:
1.132 louis 245: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
246: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
247: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
248: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 249: <p>
250:
1.132 louis 251: <li><strong>
252: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
253: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
254: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
255: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
256: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
257: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 258: <p>
1.2 deraadt 259:
1.132 louis 260: <li><strong>
261: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
262: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
263: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
264: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
265: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
266: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
267: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
268: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 269: <p>
1.11 jkatz 270:
1.17 deraadt 271: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 272: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
273: CONVERGENCE 2000.
274: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
275: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
276: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
277: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
278: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
279: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 280: <p>
1.17 deraadt 281:
1.23 niklas 282: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 283: CanSecWest.
284: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
285: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
286: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
287: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
288: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
289: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
290: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
291: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 292: <p>
1.25 deraadt 293:
1.132 louis 294: <li><strong>
295: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
296: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
297: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
298: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
299: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
300: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 301: <p>
1.23 niklas 302:
1.31 deraadt 303: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 304: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
305: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
306: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 307: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 308: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
309: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
310: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
311: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 312: <p>
1.31 deraadt 313:
1.132 louis 314: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 315: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 316: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
317: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
318: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
319: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 320: <p>
321:
1.132 louis 322: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 323:
1.132 louis 324: <li>
325: <strong>
326: The Bazaar.
327: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
328: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
329: firewalls with OpenBSD.
330: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
331: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
332: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
333: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 334: <p>
335:
1.132 louis 336: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 337: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 338: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
339: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
340: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
341: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
342: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
343: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
344: There were many other OpenBSD
345: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
346: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
347:
348: <ul>
349: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
350: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
351: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
352: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
353: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
354: </ul>
355: <p>
356:
357: <li><strong>
358: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
359: IP-dagarna 1999
360: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
361: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
362: <p>
363:
364: <li><strong>
365: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
366: Linux & Open Source Software '99
367: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
368: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
369: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
370: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
371: <p>
372:
373: <li><strong>
374: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
375: Reflections/Projections 1999
376: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
377: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
378: developers from the east coast attended as well.
379: <p>
380:
381: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
382: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
383: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
384: (in swedish)</strong><br>
385: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
386: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
387: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
388: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
389: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
390: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
391: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
392: conference in Stockholm.
393: <p>
394:
395: <li><strong>
396: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
397: AUUG'99.
398: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
399: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
400: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
401: coordinated.
402: <p>
403:
404: <li><strong>
405: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
406: Usenix Security.
407: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
408: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
409: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
410: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
411: significant security roles.
412: <p>
413:
414: <li><strong>
415: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
416: 45th IETF meeting.
417: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
418: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
419: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
420: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
421: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
422: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
423: <p>
1.45 jason 424:
1.132 louis 425: <li><strong>
426: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
427: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
428: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
429: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 430: <p>
1.132 louis 431:
1.46 deraadt 432: <a name=usenix99>
433: <li><strong>
434: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
435: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 436: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 437: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 438: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 439: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
440: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 441: June.)
1.132 louis 442: <br>
1.46 deraadt 443: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 444: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
445:
1.46 deraadt 446: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 447: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 448: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 449: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 450: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
451: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 452: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
453: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 454: <br>
1.66 deraadt 455: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 456: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 457: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 458: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
459: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
460: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 461: <br>
1.66 deraadt 462: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 463: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 464: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
465: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
466: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
467: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
468: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 469: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
470: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 471: <br>
1.66 deraadt 472: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 473: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 474: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
475: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 476: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
477: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 478: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 479: <p>
1.46 deraadt 480:
1.51 deraadt 481: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 482: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
483: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
484: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
485: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
486: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
487: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
488: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
489: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 490: <p>
491:
1.53 jakob 492: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 493: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
494: 44th IETF meeting.
495: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
496: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
497: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 498: <p>
499:
1.132 louis 500: <li><strong>
501: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
502: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
503: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
504: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
505: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
506: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 507: <p>
508:
1.132 louis 509: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 510:
1.132 louis 511: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
512: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
513: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
514: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
515: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 516: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 517: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
518: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
519: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
520: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 521: <p>
522:
1.71 niklas 523: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 524: <a name=lisaboston-98>
525: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
526: 12th Systems Administration Conference
527: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
528: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
529: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
530: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
531: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
532: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
533: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
534: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
535: <br>
536: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
537: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
538: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 539: <p>
540:
1.73 deraadt 541: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 542: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
543: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
544: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
545: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
546: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
547: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 548: <p>
1.73 deraadt 549:
1.75 mickey 550: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 551: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 552: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 553: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
554: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
555: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
556: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
557: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 558: <p>
1.73 deraadt 559:
1.80 deraadt 560: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 561: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
562: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
563: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
564: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
565: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 566: <p>
567:
1.93 louis 568: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 569: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
570: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
571: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
572: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 573: <p>
574:
1.132 louis 575: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
576: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
577: California, USA.</strong></a>
578: <br>
579: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
580: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 581: <p>
582:
1.132 louis 583: <a name=defcon98>
584: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
585: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
586: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
587: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
588: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
589: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
590: <br>
591: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
592: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
593: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
594: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 595: <p>
1.94 deraadt 596:
1.132 louis 597: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
598: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
599: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
600: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
601: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
602: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
603: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 604: <p>
605:
1.101 wvdputte 606: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 607: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
608: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 609: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 610: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
611: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
612: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
613: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
614: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
615: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
616: <br>
617: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
618: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 619: <p>
620:
1.105 wvdputte 621: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 622: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
623: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
624: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
625: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
626: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
627: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 628: <br>
1.132 louis 629: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
630: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 631:
1.132 louis 632: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 633:
1.113 deraadt 634: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 635: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
636: </strong><br>
637: Niels held a
638: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
639: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
640: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 641: <p>
1.132 louis 642:
643: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
644: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
645: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
646: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 647: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 648:
1.132 louis 649: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
650: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
651: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
652: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
653: <br>
654: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 655: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 656: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 657: <p>
658:
1.125 deraadt 659: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 660: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
661: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
662: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
663: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
664: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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