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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:
1.156 provos 29: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
1.158 ! deraadt 30: Niels Provos will be giving a presentation, and there will be a booth selling
! 31: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.155 shell 32: <p>
33:
1.157 jakob 34: <li><strong><a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF, December 9-14, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA</a></strong><br>
35: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob will be there.
36: <p>
37:
1.152 jakob 38: <hr>
39:
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1.152 jakob 48: <h2>Past events:</h2>
49: <dl>
50:
51: <h3>2001</h3>
52:
1.158 ! deraadt 53: <li><strong>
! 54: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
! 55: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
! 56: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
! 57: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
! 58: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
! 59: <p>
! 60:
1.156 provos 61: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
62: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
63: <p>
64:
65: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
66: Jakob and Itojun were there.
67: <p>
1.158 ! deraadt 68:
1.150 wvdputte 69: <li><strong>
70: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
71: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 72: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
73: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
74: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 75: <p>
1.137 aaron 76:
77: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 78: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
79: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
80: </strong><br>
81: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
82: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
83: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
84: <p>
85:
86: <li><strong>
87: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
88: </strong><br>
89: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
90: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
91: <p>
92:
93: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 94: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
95: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
96: </strong><br>
97: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
98: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
99: <p>
100:
101: <li><strong>
102: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
103: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
104: </strong><br>
105: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
106: <p>
107:
108: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 109: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
110: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
111: </strong><br>
112: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
113: security community.
114: <p>
115:
116: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 117: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
118: </strong><br>
119: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
120: <p>
121:
122: <li><strong>
123: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
124: </strong><br>
125: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
126: <p>
127:
1.132 louis 128: <h3>2000</h3>
129:
130: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 131: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
132: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
133: </strong><br>
134: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
135: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
136: <p>
137:
138: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 139: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
140: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
141: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
142: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
143: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
144: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 145: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 146: <p>
147:
148: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 149: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
150: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
151: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
152: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 153: <p>
1.4 millert 154:
1.132 louis 155: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
156: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
157: IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
158: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
159: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
160: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
161: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
162:
163: <ul>
164: <li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
165: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
166: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
167: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
168: </ul>
1.4 millert 169: <p>
1.132 louis 170:
1.7 deraadt 171: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 172: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
173: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
174: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
175: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
176: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
177: mind (drinks afterwards).
178: <p>
179:
180: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 181: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 182: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
183: questions.
1.32 deraadt 184: <p>
1.1 deraadt 185:
1.132 louis 186: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
187: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
188: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 189: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
190: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 191: <p>
192:
1.132 louis 193: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
194: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
195: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
196: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
197: <ul>
198: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
199: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
200: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
201: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
202: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
203: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 204: <p>
1.132 louis 205:
1.10 provos 206: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 207: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
208: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
209: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
210: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
211: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
212: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
213: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
214: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
215: <br>
216: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
217: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
218: <p>
1.32 deraadt 219:
1.132 louis 220: <li><strong>
221: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
222: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
223: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
224: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
225: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
226: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
227: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
228: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
229: and spoke about
230: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
231: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
232: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
233: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 234: <p>
1.132 louis 235:
1.6 deraadt 236: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 237: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
238: LinuxTag 2000,
239: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
240: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
241: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
242: <br>
243: Christian Weisgerber gave a
244: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
245: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 246: <p>
1.1 deraadt 247:
1.6 deraadt 248: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 249: <a name=usenix2000>
250: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 251: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 252: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
253: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
254: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
255: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
256: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
257: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 258: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 259: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
260: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
261: <ul>
262:
263: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
264: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
265: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
266: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
267: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
268: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
269:
270: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
271: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
272: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
273: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
274: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
275: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 276:
1.132 louis 277: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
278: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
279: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
280: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 281: <p>
282:
1.132 louis 283: <li><strong>
284: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
285: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
286: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
287: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
288: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
289: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 290: <p>
1.2 deraadt 291:
1.132 louis 292: <li><strong>
293: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
294: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
295: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
296: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
297: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
298: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
299: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
300: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 301: <p>
1.11 jkatz 302:
1.17 deraadt 303: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 304: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
305: CONVERGENCE 2000.
306: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
307: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
308: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
309: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
310: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
311: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 312: <p>
1.17 deraadt 313:
1.23 niklas 314: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 315: CanSecWest.
316: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
317: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
318: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
319: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
320: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
321: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
322: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
323: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 324: <p>
1.25 deraadt 325:
1.132 louis 326: <li><strong>
327: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
328: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
329: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
330: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
331: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
332: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 333: <p>
1.23 niklas 334:
1.31 deraadt 335: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 336: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
337: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
338: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 339: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 340: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
341: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
342: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
343: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 344: <p>
1.31 deraadt 345:
1.132 louis 346: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 347: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 348: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
349: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
350: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
351: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 352: <p>
353:
1.132 louis 354: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 355:
1.132 louis 356: <li>
357: <strong>
358: The Bazaar.
359: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
360: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
361: firewalls with OpenBSD.
362: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
363: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
364: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
365: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 366: <p>
367:
1.132 louis 368: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 369: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 370: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
371: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
372: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
373: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
374: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
375: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
376: There were many other OpenBSD
377: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
378: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
379:
380: <ul>
381: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
382: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
383: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
384: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
385: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
386: </ul>
387: <p>
388:
389: <li><strong>
390: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
391: IP-dagarna 1999
392: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
393: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
394: <p>
395:
396: <li><strong>
397: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
398: Linux & Open Source Software '99
399: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
400: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
401: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
402: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
403: <p>
404:
405: <li><strong>
406: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
407: Reflections/Projections 1999
408: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
409: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
410: developers from the east coast attended as well.
411: <p>
412:
413: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
414: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
415: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
416: (in swedish)</strong><br>
417: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
418: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
419: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
420: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
421: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
422: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
423: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
424: conference in Stockholm.
425: <p>
426:
427: <li><strong>
428: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
429: AUUG'99.
430: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
431: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
432: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
433: coordinated.
434: <p>
435:
436: <li><strong>
437: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
438: Usenix Security.
439: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
440: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
441: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
442: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
443: significant security roles.
444: <p>
445:
446: <li><strong>
447: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
448: 45th IETF meeting.
449: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
450: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
451: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
452: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
453: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
454: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
455: <p>
1.45 jason 456:
1.132 louis 457: <li><strong>
458: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
459: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
460: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
461: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 462: <p>
1.132 louis 463:
1.46 deraadt 464: <a name=usenix99>
465: <li><strong>
466: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
467: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 468: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 469: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 470: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 471: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
472: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 473: June.)
1.132 louis 474: <br>
1.46 deraadt 475: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 476: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
477:
1.46 deraadt 478: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 479: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 480: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 481: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 482: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
483: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 484: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
485: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 486: <br>
1.66 deraadt 487: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 488: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 489: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 490: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
491: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
492: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 493: <br>
1.66 deraadt 494: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 495: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 496: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
497: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
498: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
499: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
500: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 501: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
502: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 503: <br>
1.66 deraadt 504: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 505: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 506: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
507: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 508: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
509: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 510: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 511: <p>
1.46 deraadt 512:
1.51 deraadt 513: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 514: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
515: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
516: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
517: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
518: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
519: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
520: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
521: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 522: <p>
523:
1.53 jakob 524: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 525: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
526: 44th IETF meeting.
527: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
528: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
529: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 530: <p>
531:
1.132 louis 532: <li><strong>
533: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
534: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
535: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
536: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
537: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
538: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 539: <p>
540:
1.132 louis 541: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 542:
1.132 louis 543: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
544: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
545: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
546: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
547: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 548: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 549: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
550: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
551: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
552: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 553: <p>
554:
1.71 niklas 555: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 556: <a name=lisaboston-98>
557: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
558: 12th Systems Administration Conference
559: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
560: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
561: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
562: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
563: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
564: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
565: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
566: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
567: <br>
568: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
569: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
570: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 571: <p>
572:
1.73 deraadt 573: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 574: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
575: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
576: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
577: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
578: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
579: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 580: <p>
1.73 deraadt 581:
1.75 mickey 582: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 583: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 584: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 585: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
586: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
587: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
588: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
589: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 590: <p>
1.73 deraadt 591:
1.80 deraadt 592: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 593: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
594: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
595: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 596: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 597: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 598: <p>
599:
1.93 louis 600: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 601: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
602: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
603: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
604: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 605: <p>
606:
1.132 louis 607: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
608: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
609: California, USA.</strong></a>
610: <br>
611: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
612: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 613: <p>
614:
1.132 louis 615: <a name=defcon98>
616: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
617: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
618: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
619: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
620: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
621: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
622: <br>
623: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
624: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
625: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
626: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 627: <p>
1.94 deraadt 628:
1.132 louis 629: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
630: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
631: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
632: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
633: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
634: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
635: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 636: <p>
637:
1.101 wvdputte 638: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 639: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
640: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 641: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 642: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
643: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
644: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
645: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
646: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
647: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
648: <br>
649: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
650: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 651: <p>
652:
1.105 wvdputte 653: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 654: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
655: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
656: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
657: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
658: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
659: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 660: <br>
1.132 louis 661: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
662: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 663:
1.132 louis 664: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 665:
1.113 deraadt 666: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 667: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
668: </strong><br>
669: Niels held a
670: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
671: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
672: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 673: <p>
1.132 louis 674:
675: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
676: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
677: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
678: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 679: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 680:
1.132 louis 681: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
682: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
683: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
684: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
685: <br>
686: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 687: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 688: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 689: <p>
690:
1.125 deraadt 691: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 692: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
693: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
694: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
695: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
696: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 697:
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