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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:
1.152 jakob 29: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
30: Jakob and Itojun will be there.
31: <p>
32: <hr>
33:
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1.132 louis 40: Thanks
41: louis@openbsd.org
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43:
1.152 jakob 44: <h2>Past events:</h2>
45: <dl>
46:
47: <h3>2001</h3>
48:
1.150 wvdputte 49: <li><strong>
50: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
51: </strong><br>
1.153 ! jufi 52: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
! 53: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
! 54: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 55: <p>
1.137 aaron 56:
57: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 58: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
59: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
60: </strong><br>
61: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
62: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
63: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
64: <p>
65:
66: <li><strong>
67: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
68: </strong><br>
69: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
70: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
71: <p>
72:
73: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 74: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
75: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
76: </strong><br>
77: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
78: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
79: <p>
80:
81: <li><strong>
82: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
83: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
84: </strong><br>
85: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
86: <p>
87:
88: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 89: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
90: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
91: </strong><br>
92: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
93: security community.
94: <p>
95:
96: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 97: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
98: </strong><br>
99: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
100: <p>
101:
102: <li><strong>
103: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
104: </strong><br>
105: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
106: <p>
107:
1.132 louis 108: <h3>2000</h3>
109:
110: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 111: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
112: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
113: </strong><br>
114: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
115: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
116: <p>
117:
118: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 119: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
120: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
121: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
122: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
123: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
124: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 125: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 126: <p>
127:
128: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 129: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
130: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
131: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
132: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 133: <p>
1.4 millert 134:
1.132 louis 135: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
136: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
137: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
138: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
139: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
140: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
141: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
142:
143: <ul>
144: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
145: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
146: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
147: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
148: </ul>
1.4 millert 149: <p>
1.132 louis 150:
1.7 deraadt 151: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 152: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
153: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
154: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
155: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
156: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
157: mind (drinks afterwards).
158: <p>
159:
160: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 161: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 162: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
163: questions.
1.32 deraadt 164: <p>
1.1 deraadt 165:
1.132 louis 166: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
167: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
168: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 169: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
170: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 171: <p>
172:
1.132 louis 173: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
174: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
175: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
176: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
177: <ul>
178: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
179: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
180: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
181: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
182: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
183: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 184: <p>
1.132 louis 185:
1.10 provos 186: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 187: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
188: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
189: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
190: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
191: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
192: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
193: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
194: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
195: <br>
196: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
197: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
198: <p>
1.32 deraadt 199:
1.132 louis 200: <li><strong>
201: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
202: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
203: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
204: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
205: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
206: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
207: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
208: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
209: and spoke about
210: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
211: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
212: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
213: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 214: <p>
1.132 louis 215:
1.6 deraadt 216: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 217: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
218: LinuxTag 2000,
219: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
220: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
221: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
222: <br>
223: Christian Weisgerber gave a
224: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
225: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 226: <p>
1.1 deraadt 227:
1.6 deraadt 228: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 229: <a name=usenix2000>
230: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 231: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 232: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
233: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
234: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
235: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
236: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
237: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 238: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 239: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
240: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
241: <ul>
242:
243: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
244: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
245: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
246: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
247: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
248: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
249:
250: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
251: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
252: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
253: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
254: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
255: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 256:
1.132 louis 257: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
258: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
259: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
260: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 261: <p>
262:
1.132 louis 263: <li><strong>
264: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
265: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
266: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
267: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
268: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
269: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 270: <p>
1.2 deraadt 271:
1.132 louis 272: <li><strong>
273: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
274: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
275: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
276: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
277: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
278: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
279: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
280: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 281: <p>
1.11 jkatz 282:
1.17 deraadt 283: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 284: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
285: CONVERGENCE 2000.
286: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
287: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
288: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
289: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
290: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
291: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 292: <p>
1.17 deraadt 293:
1.23 niklas 294: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 295: CanSecWest.
296: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
297: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
298: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
299: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
300: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
301: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
302: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
303: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 304: <p>
1.25 deraadt 305:
1.132 louis 306: <li><strong>
307: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
308: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
309: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
310: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
311: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
312: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 313: <p>
1.23 niklas 314:
1.31 deraadt 315: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 316: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
317: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
318: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 319: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 320: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
321: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
322: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
323: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 324: <p>
1.31 deraadt 325:
1.132 louis 326: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 327: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 328: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
329: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
330: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
331: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 332: <p>
333:
1.132 louis 334: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 335:
1.132 louis 336: <li>
337: <strong>
338: The Bazaar.
339: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
340: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
341: firewalls with OpenBSD.
342: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
343: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
344: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
345: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 346: <p>
347:
1.132 louis 348: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 349: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 350: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
351: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
352: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
353: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
354: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
355: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
356: There were many other OpenBSD
357: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
358: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
359:
360: <ul>
361: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
362: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
363: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
364: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
365: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
366: </ul>
367: <p>
368:
369: <li><strong>
370: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
371: IP-dagarna 1999
372: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
373: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
374: <p>
375:
376: <li><strong>
377: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
378: Linux & Open Source Software '99
379: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
380: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
381: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
382: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
383: <p>
384:
385: <li><strong>
386: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
387: Reflections/Projections 1999
388: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
389: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
390: developers from the east coast attended as well.
391: <p>
392:
393: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
394: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
395: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
396: (in swedish)</strong><br>
397: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
398: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
399: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
400: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
401: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
402: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
403: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
404: conference in Stockholm.
405: <p>
406:
407: <li><strong>
408: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
409: AUUG'99.
410: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
411: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
412: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
413: coordinated.
414: <p>
415:
416: <li><strong>
417: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
418: Usenix Security.
419: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
420: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
421: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
422: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
423: significant security roles.
424: <p>
425:
426: <li><strong>
427: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
428: 45th IETF meeting.
429: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
430: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
431: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
432: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
433: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
434: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
435: <p>
1.45 jason 436:
1.132 louis 437: <li><strong>
438: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
439: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
440: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
441: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 442: <p>
1.132 louis 443:
1.46 deraadt 444: <a name=usenix99>
445: <li><strong>
446: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
447: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 448: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 449: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 450: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 451: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
452: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 453: June.)
1.132 louis 454: <br>
1.46 deraadt 455: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 456: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
457:
1.46 deraadt 458: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 459: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 460: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 461: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 462: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
463: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 464: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
465: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 466: <br>
1.66 deraadt 467: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 468: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 469: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 470: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
471: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
472: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 473: <br>
1.66 deraadt 474: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 475: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 476: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
477: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
478: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
479: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
480: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 481: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
482: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 483: <br>
1.66 deraadt 484: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 485: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 486: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
487: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 488: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
489: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 490: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 491: <p>
1.46 deraadt 492:
1.51 deraadt 493: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 494: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
495: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
496: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
497: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
498: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
499: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
500: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
501: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 502: <p>
503:
1.53 jakob 504: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 505: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
506: 44th IETF meeting.
507: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
508: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
509: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 510: <p>
511:
1.132 louis 512: <li><strong>
513: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
514: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
515: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
516: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
517: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
518: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 519: <p>
520:
1.132 louis 521: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 522:
1.132 louis 523: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
524: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
525: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
526: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
527: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 528: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 529: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
530: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
531: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
532: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 533: <p>
534:
1.71 niklas 535: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 536: <a name=lisaboston-98>
537: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
538: 12th Systems Administration Conference
539: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
540: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
541: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
542: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
543: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
544: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
545: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
546: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
547: <br>
548: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
549: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
550: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 551: <p>
552:
1.73 deraadt 553: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 554: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
555: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
556: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
557: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
558: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
559: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 560: <p>
1.73 deraadt 561:
1.75 mickey 562: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 563: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 564: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 565: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
566: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
567: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
568: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
569: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 570: <p>
1.73 deraadt 571:
1.80 deraadt 572: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 573: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
574: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
575: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 576: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 577: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 578: <p>
579:
1.93 louis 580: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 581: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
582: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
583: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
584: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 585: <p>
586:
1.132 louis 587: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
588: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
589: California, USA.</strong></a>
590: <br>
591: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
592: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 593: <p>
594:
1.132 louis 595: <a name=defcon98>
596: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
597: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
598: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
599: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
600: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
601: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
602: <br>
603: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
604: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
605: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
606: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 607: <p>
1.94 deraadt 608:
1.132 louis 609: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
610: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
611: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
612: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
613: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
614: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
615: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 616: <p>
617:
1.101 wvdputte 618: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 619: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
620: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 621: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 622: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
623: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
624: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
625: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
626: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
627: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
628: <br>
629: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
630: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 631: <p>
632:
1.105 wvdputte 633: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 634: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
635: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
636: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
637: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
638: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
639: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 640: <br>
1.132 louis 641: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
642: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 643:
1.132 louis 644: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 645:
1.113 deraadt 646: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 647: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
648: </strong><br>
649: Niels held a
650: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
651: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
652: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 653: <p>
1.132 louis 654:
655: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
656: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
657: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
658: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 659: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 660:
1.132 louis 661: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
662: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
663: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
664: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
665: <br>
666: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 667: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 668: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 669: <p>
670:
1.125 deraadt 671: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 672: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
673: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
674: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
675: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
676: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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