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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>
1.148 ! brian 30: <a href="http://www.BSDConEurope.org">BSDCon Europe, November 2-4, Brighton, UK</a>
1.132 louis 31: </strong><br>
1.148 ! brian 32: The inaugural conference for European BSD users, this event will provide
! 33: a focal point for the many European users and developers of all the BSD
! 34: operating systems.
1.138 ian 35: <p>
1.59 deraadt 36: </dl>
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1.132 louis 44: Thanks
45: louis@openbsd.org
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1.55 deraadt 48: <h2>Past events:</h2>
1.59 deraadt 49: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 50:
1.137 aaron 51: <h3>2001</h3>
52:
53: <li><strong>
1.148 ! brian 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>
! 57: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
! 58: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
! 59: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
! 60: <p>
! 61:
! 62: <li><strong>
! 63: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
! 64: </strong><br>
! 65: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
! 66: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
! 67: <p>
! 68:
! 69: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 70: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
71: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
72: </strong><br>
73: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
74: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
75: <p>
76:
77: <li><strong>
78: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
79: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
80: </strong><br>
81: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
82: <p>
83:
84: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 85: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
86: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
87: </strong><br>
88: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
89: security community.
90: <p>
91:
92: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 93: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
94: </strong><br>
95: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
96: <p>
97:
98: <li><strong>
99: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
100: </strong><br>
101: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
102: <p>
103:
1.132 louis 104: <h3>2000</h3>
105:
106: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 107: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
108: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
109: </strong><br>
110: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
111: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
112: <p>
113:
114: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 115: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
116: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
117: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
118: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
119: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
120: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
121: one of the largest volcanos, called Malinche.
122: <p>
123:
124: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 125: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
126: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
127: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
128: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 129: <p>
1.4 millert 130:
1.132 louis 131: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
132: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
133: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
134: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
135: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
136: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
137: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
138:
139: <ul>
140: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
141: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
142: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
143: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
144: </ul>
1.4 millert 145: <p>
1.132 louis 146:
1.7 deraadt 147: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 148: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
149: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
150: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
151: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
152: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
153: mind (drinks afterwards).
154: <p>
155:
156: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 157: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 158: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
159: questions.
1.32 deraadt 160: <p>
1.1 deraadt 161:
1.132 louis 162: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
163: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
164: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 165: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
166: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 167: <p>
168:
1.132 louis 169: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
170: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
171: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
172: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
173: <ul>
174: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
175: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
176: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
177: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
178: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
179: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 180: <p>
1.132 louis 181:
1.10 provos 182: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 183: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
184: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
185: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
186: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
187: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
188: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
189: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
190: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
191: <br>
192: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
193: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
194: <p>
1.32 deraadt 195:
1.132 louis 196: <li><strong>
197: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
198: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
199: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
200: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
201: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
202: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
203: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
204: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
205: and spoke about
206: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
207: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
208: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
209: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 210: <p>
1.132 louis 211:
1.6 deraadt 212: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 213: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
214: LinuxTag 2000,
215: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
216: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
217: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
218: <br>
219: Christian Weisgerber gave a
220: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
221: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 222: <p>
1.1 deraadt 223:
1.6 deraadt 224: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 225: <a name=usenix2000>
226: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 227: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 228: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
229: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
230: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
231: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
232: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
233: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 234: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 235: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
236: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
237: <ul>
238:
239: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
240: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
241: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
242: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
243: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
244: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
245:
246: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
247: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
248: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
249: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
250: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
251: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 252:
1.132 louis 253: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
254: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
255: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
256: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 257: <p>
258:
1.132 louis 259: <li><strong>
260: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
261: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
262: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
263: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
264: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
265: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 266: <p>
1.2 deraadt 267:
1.132 louis 268: <li><strong>
269: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
270: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
271: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
272: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
273: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
274: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
275: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
276: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 277: <p>
1.11 jkatz 278:
1.17 deraadt 279: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 280: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
281: CONVERGENCE 2000.
282: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
283: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
284: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
285: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
286: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
287: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 288: <p>
1.17 deraadt 289:
1.23 niklas 290: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 291: CanSecWest.
292: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
293: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
294: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
295: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
296: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
297: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
298: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
299: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 300: <p>
1.25 deraadt 301:
1.132 louis 302: <li><strong>
303: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
304: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
305: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
306: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
307: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
308: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 309: <p>
1.23 niklas 310:
1.31 deraadt 311: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 312: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
313: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
314: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 315: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 316: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
317: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
318: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
319: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 320: <p>
1.31 deraadt 321:
1.132 louis 322: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 323: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 324: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
325: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
326: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
327: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 328: <p>
329:
1.132 louis 330: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 331:
1.132 louis 332: <li>
333: <strong>
334: The Bazaar.
335: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
336: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
337: firewalls with OpenBSD.
338: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
339: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
340: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
341: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 342: <p>
343:
1.132 louis 344: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 345: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 346: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
347: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
348: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
349: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
350: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
351: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
352: There were many other OpenBSD
353: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
354: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
355:
356: <ul>
357: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
358: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
359: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
360: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
361: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
362: </ul>
363: <p>
364:
365: <li><strong>
366: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
367: IP-dagarna 1999
368: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
369: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
370: <p>
371:
372: <li><strong>
373: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
374: Linux & Open Source Software '99
375: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
376: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
377: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
378: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
379: <p>
380:
381: <li><strong>
382: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
383: Reflections/Projections 1999
384: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
385: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
386: developers from the east coast attended as well.
387: <p>
388:
389: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
390: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
391: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
392: (in swedish)</strong><br>
393: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
394: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
395: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
396: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
397: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
398: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
399: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
400: conference in Stockholm.
401: <p>
402:
403: <li><strong>
404: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
405: AUUG'99.
406: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
407: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
408: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
409: coordinated.
410: <p>
411:
412: <li><strong>
413: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
414: Usenix Security.
415: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
416: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
417: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
418: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
419: significant security roles.
420: <p>
421:
422: <li><strong>
423: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
424: 45th IETF meeting.
425: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
426: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
427: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
428: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
429: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
430: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
431: <p>
1.45 jason 432:
1.132 louis 433: <li><strong>
434: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
435: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
436: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
437: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 438: <p>
1.132 louis 439:
1.46 deraadt 440: <a name=usenix99>
441: <li><strong>
442: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
443: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 444: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 445: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 446: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 447: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
448: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 449: June.)
1.132 louis 450: <br>
1.46 deraadt 451: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 452: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
453:
1.46 deraadt 454: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 455: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 456: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 457: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 458: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
459: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 460: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
461: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 462: <br>
1.66 deraadt 463: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 464: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 465: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 466: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
467: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
468: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 469: <br>
1.66 deraadt 470: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 471: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 472: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
473: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
474: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
475: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
476: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 477: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
478: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 479: <br>
1.66 deraadt 480: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 481: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 482: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
483: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 484: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
485: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 486: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 487: <p>
1.46 deraadt 488:
1.51 deraadt 489: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 490: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
491: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
492: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
493: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
494: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
495: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
496: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
497: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 498: <p>
499:
1.53 jakob 500: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 501: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
502: 44th IETF meeting.
503: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
504: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
505: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 506: <p>
507:
1.132 louis 508: <li><strong>
509: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
510: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
511: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
512: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
513: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
514: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 515: <p>
516:
1.132 louis 517: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 518:
1.132 louis 519: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
520: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
521: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
522: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
523: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 524: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 525: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
526: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
527: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
528: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 529: <p>
530:
1.71 niklas 531: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 532: <a name=lisaboston-98>
533: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
534: 12th Systems Administration Conference
535: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
536: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
537: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
538: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
539: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
540: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
541: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
542: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
543: <br>
544: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
545: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
546: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 547: <p>
548:
1.73 deraadt 549: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 550: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
551: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
552: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
553: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
554: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
555: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 556: <p>
1.73 deraadt 557:
1.75 mickey 558: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 559: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 560: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 561: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
562: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
563: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
564: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
565: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 566: <p>
1.73 deraadt 567:
1.80 deraadt 568: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 569: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
570: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
571: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
572: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
573: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 574: <p>
575:
1.93 louis 576: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 577: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
578: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
579: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
580: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 581: <p>
582:
1.132 louis 583: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
584: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
585: California, USA.</strong></a>
586: <br>
587: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
588: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 589: <p>
590:
1.132 louis 591: <a name=defcon98>
592: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
593: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
594: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
595: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
596: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
597: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
598: <br>
599: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
600: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
601: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
602: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 603: <p>
1.94 deraadt 604:
1.132 louis 605: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
606: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
607: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
608: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
609: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
610: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
611: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 612: <p>
613:
1.101 wvdputte 614: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 615: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
616: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 617: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 618: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
619: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
620: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
621: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
622: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
623: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
624: <br>
625: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
626: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 627: <p>
628:
1.105 wvdputte 629: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 630: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
631: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
632: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
633: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
634: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
635: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 636: <br>
1.132 louis 637: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
638: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 639:
1.132 louis 640: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 641:
1.113 deraadt 642: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 643: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
644: </strong><br>
645: Niels held a
646: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
647: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
648: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 649: <p>
1.132 louis 650:
651: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
652: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
653: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
654: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 655: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 656:
1.132 louis 657: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
658: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
659: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
660: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
661: <br>
662: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 663: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 664: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 665: <p>
666:
1.125 deraadt 667: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 668: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
669: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
670: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
671: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
672: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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