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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:
1.155 ! shell 29: <li><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a><br>
! 30: Shell Hung will give a introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
! 31: <p>
! 32:
1.152 jakob 33: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
34: Jakob and Itojun will be there.
35: <p>
36: <hr>
37:
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1.132 louis 44: Thanks
45: louis@openbsd.org
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1.152 jakob 48: <h2>Past events:</h2>
49: <dl>
50:
51: <h3>2001</h3>
52:
1.150 wvdputte 53: <li><strong>
54: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
55: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 56: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
57: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
58: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 59: <p>
1.137 aaron 60:
61: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 62: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
63: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
64: </strong><br>
65: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
66: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
67: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
68: <p>
69:
70: <li><strong>
71: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
72: </strong><br>
73: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
74: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
75: <p>
76:
77: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 78: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
79: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
80: </strong><br>
81: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
82: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
83: <p>
84:
85: <li><strong>
86: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
87: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
88: </strong><br>
89: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
90: <p>
91:
92: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 93: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
94: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
95: </strong><br>
96: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
97: security community.
98: <p>
99:
100: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 101: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
102: </strong><br>
103: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
104: <p>
105:
106: <li><strong>
107: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
108: </strong><br>
109: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
110: <p>
111:
1.132 louis 112: <h3>2000</h3>
113:
114: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 115: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
116: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
117: </strong><br>
118: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
119: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
120: <p>
121:
122: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 123: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
124: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
125: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
126: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
127: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
128: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 129: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 130: <p>
131:
132: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 133: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
134: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
135: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
136: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 137: <p>
1.4 millert 138:
1.132 louis 139: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
140: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
141: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
142: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
143: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
144: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
145: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
146:
147: <ul>
148: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
149: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
150: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
151: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
152: </ul>
1.4 millert 153: <p>
1.132 louis 154:
1.7 deraadt 155: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 156: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
157: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
158: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
159: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
160: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
161: mind (drinks afterwards).
162: <p>
163:
164: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 165: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 166: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
167: questions.
1.32 deraadt 168: <p>
1.1 deraadt 169:
1.132 louis 170: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
171: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
172: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 173: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
174: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 175: <p>
176:
1.132 louis 177: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
178: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
179: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
180: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
181: <ul>
182: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
183: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
184: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
185: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
186: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
187: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 188: <p>
1.132 louis 189:
1.10 provos 190: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 191: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
192: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
193: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
194: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
195: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
196: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
197: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
198: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
199: <br>
200: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
201: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
202: <p>
1.32 deraadt 203:
1.132 louis 204: <li><strong>
205: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
206: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
207: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
208: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
209: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
210: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
211: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
212: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
213: and spoke about
214: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
215: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
216: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
217: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 218: <p>
1.132 louis 219:
1.6 deraadt 220: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 221: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
222: LinuxTag 2000,
223: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
224: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
225: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
226: <br>
227: Christian Weisgerber gave a
228: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
229: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 230: <p>
1.1 deraadt 231:
1.6 deraadt 232: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 233: <a name=usenix2000>
234: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 235: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 236: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
237: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
238: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
239: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
240: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
241: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 242: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 243: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
244: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
245: <ul>
246:
247: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
248: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
249: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
250: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
251: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
252: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
253:
254: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
255: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
256: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
257: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
258: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
259: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 260:
1.132 louis 261: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
262: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
263: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
264: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 265: <p>
266:
1.132 louis 267: <li><strong>
268: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
269: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
270: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
271: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
272: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
273: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 274: <p>
1.2 deraadt 275:
1.132 louis 276: <li><strong>
277: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
278: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
279: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
280: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
281: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
282: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
283: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
284: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 285: <p>
1.11 jkatz 286:
1.17 deraadt 287: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 288: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
289: CONVERGENCE 2000.
290: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
291: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
292: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
293: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
294: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
295: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 296: <p>
1.17 deraadt 297:
1.23 niklas 298: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 299: CanSecWest.
300: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
301: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
302: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
303: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
304: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
305: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
306: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
307: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 308: <p>
1.25 deraadt 309:
1.132 louis 310: <li><strong>
311: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
312: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
313: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
314: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
315: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
316: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 317: <p>
1.23 niklas 318:
1.31 deraadt 319: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 320: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
321: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
322: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 323: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 324: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
325: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
326: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
327: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 328: <p>
1.31 deraadt 329:
1.132 louis 330: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 331: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 332: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
333: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
334: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
335: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 336: <p>
337:
1.132 louis 338: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 339:
1.132 louis 340: <li>
341: <strong>
342: The Bazaar.
343: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
344: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
345: firewalls with OpenBSD.
346: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
347: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
348: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
349: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 350: <p>
351:
1.132 louis 352: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 353: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 354: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
355: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
356: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
357: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
358: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
359: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
360: There were many other OpenBSD
361: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
362: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
363:
364: <ul>
365: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
366: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
367: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
368: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
369: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
370: </ul>
371: <p>
372:
373: <li><strong>
374: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
375: IP-dagarna 1999
376: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
377: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
378: <p>
379:
380: <li><strong>
381: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
382: Linux & Open Source Software '99
383: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
384: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
385: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
386: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
387: <p>
388:
389: <li><strong>
390: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
391: Reflections/Projections 1999
392: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
393: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
394: developers from the east coast attended as well.
395: <p>
396:
397: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
398: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
399: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
400: (in swedish)</strong><br>
401: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
402: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
403: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
404: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
405: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
406: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
407: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
408: conference in Stockholm.
409: <p>
410:
411: <li><strong>
412: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
413: AUUG'99.
414: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
415: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
416: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
417: coordinated.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><strong>
421: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
422: Usenix Security.
423: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
424: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
425: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
426: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
427: significant security roles.
428: <p>
429:
430: <li><strong>
431: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
432: 45th IETF meeting.
433: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
434: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
435: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
436: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
437: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
438: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
439: <p>
1.45 jason 440:
1.132 louis 441: <li><strong>
442: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
443: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
444: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
445: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 446: <p>
1.132 louis 447:
1.46 deraadt 448: <a name=usenix99>
449: <li><strong>
450: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
451: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 452: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 453: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 454: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 455: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
456: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 457: June.)
1.132 louis 458: <br>
1.46 deraadt 459: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 460: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
461:
1.46 deraadt 462: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 463: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 464: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 465: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 466: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
467: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 468: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
469: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 470: <br>
1.66 deraadt 471: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 472: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 473: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 474: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
475: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
476: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 477: <br>
1.66 deraadt 478: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 479: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 480: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
481: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
482: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
483: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
484: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 485: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
486: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 487: <br>
1.66 deraadt 488: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 489: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 490: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
491: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 492: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
493: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 494: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 495: <p>
1.46 deraadt 496:
1.51 deraadt 497: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 498: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
499: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
500: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
501: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
502: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
503: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
504: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
505: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 506: <p>
507:
1.53 jakob 508: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 509: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
510: 44th IETF meeting.
511: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
512: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
513: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 514: <p>
515:
1.132 louis 516: <li><strong>
517: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
518: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
519: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
520: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
521: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
522: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 523: <p>
524:
1.132 louis 525: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 526:
1.132 louis 527: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
528: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
529: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
530: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
531: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 532: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 533: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
534: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
535: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
536: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 537: <p>
538:
1.71 niklas 539: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 540: <a name=lisaboston-98>
541: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
542: 12th Systems Administration Conference
543: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
544: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
545: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
546: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
547: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
548: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
549: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
550: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
551: <br>
552: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
553: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
554: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 555: <p>
556:
1.73 deraadt 557: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 558: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
559: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
560: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
561: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
562: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
563: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 564: <p>
1.73 deraadt 565:
1.75 mickey 566: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 567: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 568: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 569: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
570: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
571: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
572: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
573: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 574: <p>
1.73 deraadt 575:
1.80 deraadt 576: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 577: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
578: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
579: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 580: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 581: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 582: <p>
583:
1.93 louis 584: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 585: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
586: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
587: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
588: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 589: <p>
590:
1.132 louis 591: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
592: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
593: California, USA.</strong></a>
594: <br>
595: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
596: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 597: <p>
598:
1.132 louis 599: <a name=defcon98>
600: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
601: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
602: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
603: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
604: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
605: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
606: <br>
607: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
608: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
609: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
610: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 611: <p>
1.94 deraadt 612:
1.132 louis 613: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
614: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
615: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
616: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
617: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
618: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
619: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 620: <p>
621:
1.101 wvdputte 622: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 623: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
624: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 625: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 626: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
627: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
628: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
629: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
630: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
631: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
632: <br>
633: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
634: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 635: <p>
636:
1.105 wvdputte 637: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 638: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
639: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
640: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
641: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
642: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
643: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 644: <br>
1.132 louis 645: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
646: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 647:
1.132 louis 648: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 649:
1.113 deraadt 650: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 651: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
652: </strong><br>
653: Niels held a
654: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
655: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
656: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 657: <p>
1.132 louis 658:
659: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
660: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
661: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
662: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 663: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 664:
1.132 louis 665: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
666: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
667: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
668: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
669: <br>
670: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 671: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 672: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 673: <p>
674:
1.125 deraadt 675: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 676: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
677: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
678: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
679: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
680: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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