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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:
1.59 deraadt 29: </dl>
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31: <hr>
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1.132 louis 37: Thanks
38: louis@openbsd.org
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1.55 deraadt 41: <h2>Past events:</h2>
1.59 deraadt 42: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 43:
1.137 aaron 44: <h3>2001</h3>
45:
46: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 47: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
48: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
49: </strong><br>
50: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
51: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
52: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
53: <p>
54:
55: <li><strong>
56: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
57: </strong><br>
58: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
59: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
60: <p>
61:
62: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 63: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
64: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
65: </strong><br>
66: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
67: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
68: <p>
69:
70: <li><strong>
71: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
72: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
73: </strong><br>
74: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
75: <p>
76:
77: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 78: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
79: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
80: </strong><br>
81: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
82: security community.
83: <p>
84:
85: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 86: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
87: </strong><br>
88: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
89: <p>
90:
91: <li><strong>
92: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
93: </strong><br>
94: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
95: <p>
96:
1.132 louis 97: <h3>2000</h3>
98:
99: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 100: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
101: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
102: </strong><br>
103: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
104: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
105: <p>
106:
107: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 108: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
109: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
110: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
111: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
112: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
113: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
114: one of the largest volcanos, called Malinche.
115: <p>
116:
117: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 118: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
119: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
120: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
121: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 122: <p>
1.4 millert 123:
1.132 louis 124: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
125: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
126: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
127: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
128: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
129: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
130: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
131:
132: <ul>
133: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
134: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
135: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
136: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
137: </ul>
1.4 millert 138: <p>
1.132 louis 139:
1.7 deraadt 140: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 141: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
142: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
143: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
144: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
145: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
146: mind (drinks afterwards).
147: <p>
148:
149: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 150: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 151: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
152: questions.
1.32 deraadt 153: <p>
1.1 deraadt 154:
1.132 louis 155: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
156: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
157: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 158: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
159: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 160: <p>
161:
1.132 louis 162: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
163: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
164: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
165: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
166: <ul>
167: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
168: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
169: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
170: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
171: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
172: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 173: <p>
1.132 louis 174:
1.10 provos 175: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 176: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
177: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
178: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
179: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
180: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
181: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
182: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
183: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
184: <br>
185: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
186: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
187: <p>
1.32 deraadt 188:
1.132 louis 189: <li><strong>
190: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
191: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
192: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
193: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
194: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
195: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
196: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
197: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
198: and spoke about
199: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
200: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
201: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
202: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 203: <p>
1.132 louis 204:
1.6 deraadt 205: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 206: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
207: LinuxTag 2000,
208: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
209: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
210: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
211: <br>
212: Christian Weisgerber gave a
213: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
214: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 215: <p>
1.1 deraadt 216:
1.6 deraadt 217: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 218: <a name=usenix2000>
219: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 220: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 221: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
222: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
223: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
224: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
225: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
226: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 227: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 228: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
229: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
230: <ul>
231:
232: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
233: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
234: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
235: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
236: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
237: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
238:
239: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
240: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
241: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
242: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
243: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
244: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 245:
1.132 louis 246: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
247: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
248: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
249: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 250: <p>
251:
1.132 louis 252: <li><strong>
253: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
254: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
255: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
256: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
257: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
258: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 259: <p>
1.2 deraadt 260:
1.132 louis 261: <li><strong>
262: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
263: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
264: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
265: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
266: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
267: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
268: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
269: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 270: <p>
1.11 jkatz 271:
1.17 deraadt 272: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 273: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
274: CONVERGENCE 2000.
275: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
276: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
277: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
278: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
279: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
280: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 281: <p>
1.17 deraadt 282:
1.23 niklas 283: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 284: CanSecWest.
285: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
286: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
287: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
288: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
289: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
290: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
291: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
292: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 293: <p>
1.25 deraadt 294:
1.132 louis 295: <li><strong>
296: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
297: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
298: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
299: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
300: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
301: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 302: <p>
1.23 niklas 303:
1.31 deraadt 304: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 305: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
306: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
307: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 308: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 309: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
310: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
311: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
312: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 313: <p>
1.31 deraadt 314:
1.132 louis 315: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 316: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 317: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
318: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
319: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
320: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 321: <p>
322:
1.132 louis 323: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 324:
1.132 louis 325: <li>
326: <strong>
327: The Bazaar.
328: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
329: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
330: firewalls with OpenBSD.
331: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
332: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
333: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
334: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 335: <p>
336:
1.132 louis 337: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 338: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 339: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
340: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
341: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
342: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
343: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
344: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
345: There were many other OpenBSD
346: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
347: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
348:
349: <ul>
350: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
351: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
352: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
353: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
354: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
355: </ul>
356: <p>
357:
358: <li><strong>
359: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
360: IP-dagarna 1999
361: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
362: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
363: <p>
364:
365: <li><strong>
366: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
367: Linux & Open Source Software '99
368: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
369: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
370: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
371: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
372: <p>
373:
374: <li><strong>
375: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
376: Reflections/Projections 1999
377: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
378: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
379: developers from the east coast attended as well.
380: <p>
381:
382: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
383: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
384: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
385: (in swedish)</strong><br>
386: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
387: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
388: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
389: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
390: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
391: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
392: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
393: conference in Stockholm.
394: <p>
395:
396: <li><strong>
397: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
398: AUUG'99.
399: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
400: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
401: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
402: coordinated.
403: <p>
404:
405: <li><strong>
406: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
407: Usenix Security.
408: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
409: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
410: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
411: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
412: significant security roles.
413: <p>
414:
415: <li><strong>
416: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
417: 45th IETF meeting.
418: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
419: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
420: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
421: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
422: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
423: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
424: <p>
1.45 jason 425:
1.132 louis 426: <li><strong>
427: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
428: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
429: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
430: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 431: <p>
1.132 louis 432:
1.46 deraadt 433: <a name=usenix99>
434: <li><strong>
435: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
436: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 437: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 438: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 439: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 440: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
441: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 442: June.)
1.132 louis 443: <br>
1.46 deraadt 444: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 445: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
446:
1.46 deraadt 447: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 448: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 449: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 450: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 451: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
452: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 453: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
454: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 455: <br>
1.66 deraadt 456: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 457: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 458: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 459: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
460: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
461: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 462: <br>
1.66 deraadt 463: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 464: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 465: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
466: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
467: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
468: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
469: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 470: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
471: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 472: <br>
1.66 deraadt 473: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 474: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 475: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
476: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 477: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
478: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 479: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 480: <p>
1.46 deraadt 481:
1.51 deraadt 482: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 483: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
484: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
485: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
486: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
487: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
488: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
489: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
490: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 491: <p>
492:
1.53 jakob 493: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 494: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
495: 44th IETF meeting.
496: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
497: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
498: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 499: <p>
500:
1.132 louis 501: <li><strong>
502: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
503: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
504: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
505: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
506: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
507: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 508: <p>
509:
1.132 louis 510: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 511:
1.132 louis 512: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
513: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
514: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
515: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
516: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 517: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 518: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
519: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
520: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
521: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 522: <p>
523:
1.71 niklas 524: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 525: <a name=lisaboston-98>
526: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
527: 12th Systems Administration Conference
528: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
529: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
530: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
531: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
532: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
533: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
534: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
535: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
536: <br>
537: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
538: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
539: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 540: <p>
541:
1.73 deraadt 542: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 543: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
544: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
545: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
546: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
547: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
548: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 549: <p>
1.73 deraadt 550:
1.75 mickey 551: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 552: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 553: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 554: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
555: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
556: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
557: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
558: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 559: <p>
1.73 deraadt 560:
1.80 deraadt 561: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 562: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
563: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
564: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
565: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
566: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 567: <p>
568:
1.93 louis 569: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 570: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
571: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
572: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
573: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 574: <p>
575:
1.132 louis 576: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
577: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
578: California, USA.</strong></a>
579: <br>
580: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
581: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 582: <p>
583:
1.132 louis 584: <a name=defcon98>
585: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
586: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
587: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
588: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
589: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
590: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
591: <br>
592: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
593: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
594: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
595: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 596: <p>
1.94 deraadt 597:
1.132 louis 598: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
599: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
600: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
601: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
602: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
603: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
604: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 605: <p>
606:
1.101 wvdputte 607: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 608: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
609: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 610: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 611: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
612: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
613: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
614: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
615: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
616: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
617: <br>
618: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
619: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 620: <p>
621:
1.105 wvdputte 622: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 623: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
624: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
625: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
626: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
627: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
628: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 629: <br>
1.132 louis 630: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
631: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 632:
1.132 louis 633: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 634:
1.113 deraadt 635: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 636: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
637: </strong><br>
638: Niels held a
639: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
640: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
641: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 642: <p>
1.132 louis 643:
644: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
645: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
646: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
647: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 648: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 649:
1.132 louis 650: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
651: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
652: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
653: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
654: <br>
655: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 656: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 657: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 658: <p>
659:
1.125 deraadt 660: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 661: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
662: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
663: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
664: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
665: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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