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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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1.55 deraadt 31:
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1.132 louis 36: Thanks
37: louis@openbsd.org
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1.150 ! wvdputte 40: <li><strong>
! 41: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
! 42: </strong><br>
! 43: We expect quite some developers to show up, we even have our own tent.
! 44: Niels, Rees and Dugsong will hold talks, more info on the main website
! 45: for HAL2001
! 46: <p>
! 47: <hr>
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1.55 deraadt 49: <h2>Past events:</h2>
1.59 deraadt 50: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 51:
1.137 aaron 52: <h3>2001</h3>
53:
54: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 55: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
56: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
57: </strong><br>
58: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
59: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
60: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
61: <p>
62:
63: <li><strong>
64: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
65: </strong><br>
66: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
67: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
68: <p>
69:
70: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 71: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
72: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
73: </strong><br>
74: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
75: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
76: <p>
77:
78: <li><strong>
79: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
80: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
81: </strong><br>
82: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
83: <p>
84:
85: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 86: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
87: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
88: </strong><br>
89: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
90: security community.
91: <p>
92:
93: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 94: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
95: </strong><br>
96: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
97: <p>
98:
99: <li><strong>
100: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
101: </strong><br>
102: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
103: <p>
104:
1.132 louis 105: <h3>2000</h3>
106:
107: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 108: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
109: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
110: </strong><br>
111: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
112: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
113: <p>
114:
115: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 116: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
117: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
118: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
119: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
120: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
121: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
122: one of the largest volcanos, called Malinche.
123: <p>
124:
125: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 126: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
127: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
128: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
129: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 130: <p>
1.4 millert 131:
1.132 louis 132: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
133: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
134: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
135: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
136: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
137: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
138: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
139:
140: <ul>
141: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
142: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
143: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
144: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
145: </ul>
1.4 millert 146: <p>
1.132 louis 147:
1.7 deraadt 148: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 149: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
150: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
151: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
152: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
153: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
154: mind (drinks afterwards).
155: <p>
156:
157: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 158: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 159: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
160: questions.
1.32 deraadt 161: <p>
1.1 deraadt 162:
1.132 louis 163: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
164: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
165: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 166: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
167: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 168: <p>
169:
1.132 louis 170: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
171: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
172: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
173: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
174: <ul>
175: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
176: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
177: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
178: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
179: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
180: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 181: <p>
1.132 louis 182:
1.10 provos 183: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 184: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
185: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
186: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
187: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
188: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
189: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
190: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
191: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
192: <br>
193: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
194: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
195: <p>
1.32 deraadt 196:
1.132 louis 197: <li><strong>
198: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
199: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
200: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
201: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
202: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
203: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
204: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
205: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
206: and spoke about
207: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
208: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
209: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
210: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 211: <p>
1.132 louis 212:
1.6 deraadt 213: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 214: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
215: LinuxTag 2000,
216: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
217: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
218: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
219: <br>
220: Christian Weisgerber gave a
221: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
222: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 223: <p>
1.1 deraadt 224:
1.6 deraadt 225: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 226: <a name=usenix2000>
227: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 228: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 229: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
230: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
231: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
232: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
233: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
234: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 235: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 236: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
237: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
238: <ul>
239:
240: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
241: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
242: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
243: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
244: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
245: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
246:
247: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
248: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
249: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
250: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
251: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
252: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 253:
1.132 louis 254: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
255: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
256: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
257: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 258: <p>
259:
1.132 louis 260: <li><strong>
261: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
262: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
263: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
264: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
265: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
266: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 267: <p>
1.2 deraadt 268:
1.132 louis 269: <li><strong>
270: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
271: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
272: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
273: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
274: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
275: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
276: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
277: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 278: <p>
1.11 jkatz 279:
1.17 deraadt 280: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 281: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
282: CONVERGENCE 2000.
283: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
284: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
285: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
286: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
287: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
288: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 289: <p>
1.17 deraadt 290:
1.23 niklas 291: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 292: CanSecWest.
293: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
294: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
295: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
296: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
297: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
298: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
299: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
300: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 301: <p>
1.25 deraadt 302:
1.132 louis 303: <li><strong>
304: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
305: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
306: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
307: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
308: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
309: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 310: <p>
1.23 niklas 311:
1.31 deraadt 312: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 313: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
314: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
315: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 316: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 317: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
318: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
319: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
320: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 321: <p>
1.31 deraadt 322:
1.132 louis 323: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 324: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 325: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
326: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
327: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
328: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 329: <p>
330:
1.132 louis 331: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 332:
1.132 louis 333: <li>
334: <strong>
335: The Bazaar.
336: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
337: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
338: firewalls with OpenBSD.
339: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
340: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
341: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
342: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 343: <p>
344:
1.132 louis 345: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 346: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 347: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
348: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
349: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
350: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
351: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
352: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
353: There were many other OpenBSD
354: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
355: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
356:
357: <ul>
358: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
359: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
360: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
361: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
362: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
363: </ul>
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><strong>
367: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
368: IP-dagarna 1999
369: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
370: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
371: <p>
372:
373: <li><strong>
374: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
375: Linux & Open Source Software '99
376: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
377: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
378: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
379: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
380: <p>
381:
382: <li><strong>
383: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
384: Reflections/Projections 1999
385: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
386: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
387: developers from the east coast attended as well.
388: <p>
389:
390: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
391: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
392: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
393: (in swedish)</strong><br>
394: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
395: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
396: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
397: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
398: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
399: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
400: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
401: conference in Stockholm.
402: <p>
403:
404: <li><strong>
405: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
406: AUUG'99.
407: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
408: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
409: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
410: coordinated.
411: <p>
412:
413: <li><strong>
414: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
415: Usenix Security.
416: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
417: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
418: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
419: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
420: significant security roles.
421: <p>
422:
423: <li><strong>
424: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
425: 45th IETF meeting.
426: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
427: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
428: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
429: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
430: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
431: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
432: <p>
1.45 jason 433:
1.132 louis 434: <li><strong>
435: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
436: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
437: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
438: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 439: <p>
1.132 louis 440:
1.46 deraadt 441: <a name=usenix99>
442: <li><strong>
443: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
444: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 445: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 446: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 447: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 448: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
449: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 450: June.)
1.132 louis 451: <br>
1.46 deraadt 452: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 453: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
454:
1.46 deraadt 455: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 456: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 457: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 458: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 459: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
460: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 461: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
462: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 463: <br>
1.66 deraadt 464: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 465: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 466: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 467: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
468: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
469: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 470: <br>
1.66 deraadt 471: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 472: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 473: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
474: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
475: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
476: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
477: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 478: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
479: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 480: <br>
1.66 deraadt 481: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 482: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 483: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
484: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 485: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
486: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 487: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 488: <p>
1.46 deraadt 489:
1.51 deraadt 490: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 491: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
492: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
493: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
494: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
495: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
496: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
497: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
498: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 499: <p>
500:
1.53 jakob 501: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 502: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
503: 44th IETF meeting.
504: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
505: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
506: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 507: <p>
508:
1.132 louis 509: <li><strong>
510: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
511: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
512: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
513: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
514: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
515: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 516: <p>
517:
1.132 louis 518: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 519:
1.132 louis 520: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
521: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
522: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
523: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
524: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 525: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 526: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
527: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
528: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
529: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 530: <p>
531:
1.71 niklas 532: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 533: <a name=lisaboston-98>
534: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
535: 12th Systems Administration Conference
536: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
537: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
538: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
539: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
540: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
541: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
542: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
543: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
544: <br>
545: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
546: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
547: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 548: <p>
549:
1.73 deraadt 550: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 551: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
552: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
553: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
554: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
555: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
556: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 557: <p>
1.73 deraadt 558:
1.75 mickey 559: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 560: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 561: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 562: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
563: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
564: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
565: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
566: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 567: <p>
1.73 deraadt 568:
1.80 deraadt 569: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 570: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
571: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
572: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
573: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
574: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 575: <p>
576:
1.93 louis 577: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 578: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
579: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
580: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
581: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 582: <p>
583:
1.132 louis 584: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
585: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
586: California, USA.</strong></a>
587: <br>
588: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
589: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 590: <p>
591:
1.132 louis 592: <a name=defcon98>
593: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
594: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
595: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
596: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
597: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
598: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
599: <br>
600: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
601: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
602: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
603: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 604: <p>
1.94 deraadt 605:
1.132 louis 606: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
607: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
608: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
609: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
610: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
611: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
612: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 613: <p>
614:
1.101 wvdputte 615: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 616: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
617: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 618: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 619: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
620: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
621: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
622: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
623: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
624: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
625: <br>
626: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
627: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 628: <p>
629:
1.105 wvdputte 630: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 631: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
632: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
633: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
634: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
635: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
636: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 637: <br>
1.132 louis 638: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
639: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 640:
1.132 louis 641: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 642:
1.113 deraadt 643: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 644: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
645: </strong><br>
646: Niels held a
647: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
648: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
649: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 650: <p>
1.132 louis 651:
652: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
653: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
654: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
655: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 656: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 657:
1.132 louis 658: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
659: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
660: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
661: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
662: <br>
663: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 664: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 665: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 666: <p>
667:
1.125 deraadt 668: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 669: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
670: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
671: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
672: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
673: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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