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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:
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1.75 mickey 26:
1.160 jufi 27: <h3>2002</h3>
1.157 jakob 28:
1.152 jakob 29: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 39: <h2>Past events:</h2>
40: <dl>
41:
1.161 ! millert 42: <h3>2002</h3>
! 43: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
! 44: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
! 45: BSD panel discussion.
! 46: <p>
! 47:
1.152 jakob 48: <h3>2001</h3>
49:
1.160 jufi 50: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
51: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
52: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
53: <p>
54:
55: <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>
56: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
57: <p>
58:
1.158 deraadt 59: <li><strong>
60: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
61: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
62: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
63: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
64: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
65: <p>
66:
1.156 provos 67: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
68: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
69: <p>
70:
71: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
72: Jakob and Itojun were there.
73: <p>
1.158 deraadt 74:
1.150 wvdputte 75: <li><strong>
76: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
77: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 78: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
79: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
80: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 81: <p>
1.137 aaron 82:
83: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 84: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
85: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
86: </strong><br>
87: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
88: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
89: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
90: <p>
91:
92: <li><strong>
93: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
94: </strong><br>
95: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
96: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
97: <p>
98:
99: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 100: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
101: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
102: </strong><br>
103: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
104: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
105: <p>
106:
107: <li><strong>
108: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
109: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
110: </strong><br>
111: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
112: <p>
113:
114: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 115: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
116: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
117: </strong><br>
118: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
119: security community.
120: <p>
121:
122: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 123: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
124: </strong><br>
125: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
126: <p>
127:
128: <li><strong>
129: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
130: </strong><br>
131: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
132: <p>
133:
1.132 louis 134: <h3>2000</h3>
135:
136: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 137: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
138: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
139: </strong><br>
140: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
141: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
142: <p>
143:
144: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 145: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
146: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
147: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
148: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
149: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
150: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 151: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 152: <p>
153:
154: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 155: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
156: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
157: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
158: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 159: <p>
1.4 millert 160:
1.132 louis 161: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
162: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 163: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 164: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 165: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 166: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
167: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
168:
169: <ul>
1.159 miod 170: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
171: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 172: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
173: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
174: </ul>
1.4 millert 175: <p>
1.132 louis 176:
1.7 deraadt 177: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 178: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
179: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
180: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
181: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
182: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
183: mind (drinks afterwards).
184: <p>
185:
186: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 187: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 188: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
189: questions.
1.32 deraadt 190: <p>
1.1 deraadt 191:
1.132 louis 192: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
193: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
194: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 195: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
196: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 197: <p>
198:
1.132 louis 199: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
200: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
201: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
202: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
203: <ul>
204: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
205: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
206: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
207: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
208: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
209: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 210: <p>
1.132 louis 211:
1.10 provos 212: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 213: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
214: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
215: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
216: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
217: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
218: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
219: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
220: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
221: <br>
222: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
223: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
224: <p>
1.32 deraadt 225:
1.132 louis 226: <li><strong>
227: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
228: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
229: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
230: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
231: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
232: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
233: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
234: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
235: and spoke about
236: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
237: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
238: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
239: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 240: <p>
1.132 louis 241:
1.6 deraadt 242: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 243: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
244: LinuxTag 2000,
245: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
246: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
247: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
248: <br>
249: Christian Weisgerber gave a
250: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
251: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 252: <p>
1.1 deraadt 253:
1.6 deraadt 254: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 255: <a name=usenix2000>
256: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 257: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 258: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
259: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
260: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
261: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
262: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
263: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 264: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 265: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
266: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
267: <ul>
268:
269: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
270: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
271: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
272: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
273: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
274: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
275:
276: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
277: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
278: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
279: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
280: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
281: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 282:
1.132 louis 283: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
284: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
285: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
286: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 287: <p>
288:
1.132 louis 289: <li><strong>
290: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
291: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
292: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
293: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
294: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
295: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 296: <p>
1.2 deraadt 297:
1.132 louis 298: <li><strong>
299: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
300: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
301: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
302: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
303: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
304: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
305: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
306: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 307: <p>
1.11 jkatz 308:
1.17 deraadt 309: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 310: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
311: CONVERGENCE 2000.
312: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
313: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
314: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
315: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
316: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
317: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 318: <p>
1.17 deraadt 319:
1.23 niklas 320: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 321: CanSecWest.
322: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
323: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
324: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
325: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
326: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
327: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
328: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
329: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 330: <p>
1.25 deraadt 331:
1.132 louis 332: <li><strong>
333: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
334: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
335: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
336: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
337: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
338: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 339: <p>
1.23 niklas 340:
1.31 deraadt 341: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 342: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
343: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
344: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 345: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 346: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
347: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
348: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
349: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 350: <p>
1.31 deraadt 351:
1.132 louis 352: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 353: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 354: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
355: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
356: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
357: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 358: <p>
359:
1.132 louis 360: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 361:
1.132 louis 362: <li>
363: <strong>
364: The Bazaar.
365: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
366: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
367: firewalls with OpenBSD.
368: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
369: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
370: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
371: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 372: <p>
373:
1.132 louis 374: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 375: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 376: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
377: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
378: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
379: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
380: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
381: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
382: There were many other OpenBSD
383: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
384: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
385:
386: <ul>
387: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
388: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
389: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
390: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
391: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
392: </ul>
393: <p>
394:
395: <li><strong>
396: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
397: IP-dagarna 1999
398: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
399: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
400: <p>
401:
402: <li><strong>
403: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
404: Linux & Open Source Software '99
405: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
406: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
407: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
408: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
409: <p>
410:
411: <li><strong>
412: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
413: Reflections/Projections 1999
414: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
415: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
416: developers from the east coast attended as well.
417: <p>
418:
419: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
420: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
421: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
422: (in swedish)</strong><br>
423: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
424: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
425: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
426: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
427: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
428: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
429: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
430: conference in Stockholm.
431: <p>
432:
433: <li><strong>
434: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
435: AUUG'99.
436: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
437: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
438: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
439: coordinated.
440: <p>
441:
442: <li><strong>
443: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
444: Usenix Security.
445: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
446: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
447: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
448: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
449: significant security roles.
450: <p>
451:
452: <li><strong>
453: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
454: 45th IETF meeting.
455: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
456: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
457: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
458: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
459: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
460: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
461: <p>
1.45 jason 462:
1.132 louis 463: <li><strong>
464: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
465: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
466: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
467: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 468: <p>
1.132 louis 469:
1.46 deraadt 470: <a name=usenix99>
471: <li><strong>
472: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
473: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 474: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 475: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 476: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 477: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
478: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 479: June.)
1.132 louis 480: <br>
1.46 deraadt 481: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 482: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
483:
1.46 deraadt 484: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 485: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 486: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 487: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 488: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
489: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 490: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
491: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 492: <br>
1.66 deraadt 493: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 494: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 495: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 496: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
497: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
498: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 499: <br>
1.66 deraadt 500: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 501: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 502: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
503: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
504: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
505: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
506: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 507: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
508: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 509: <br>
1.66 deraadt 510: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 511: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 512: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
513: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 514: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
515: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 516: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 517: <p>
1.46 deraadt 518:
1.51 deraadt 519: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 520: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
521: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
522: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
523: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
524: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
525: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
526: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
527: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 528: <p>
529:
1.53 jakob 530: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 531: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
532: 44th IETF meeting.
533: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
534: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
535: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 536: <p>
537:
1.132 louis 538: <li><strong>
539: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
540: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
541: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
542: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
543: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
544: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 545: <p>
546:
1.132 louis 547: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 548:
1.132 louis 549: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
550: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
551: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
552: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
553: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 554: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 555: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
556: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
557: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
558: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 559: <p>
560:
1.71 niklas 561: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 562: <a name=lisaboston-98>
563: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
564: 12th Systems Administration Conference
565: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
566: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
567: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
568: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
569: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
570: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
571: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
572: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
573: <br>
574: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
575: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
576: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 577: <p>
578:
1.73 deraadt 579: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 580: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
581: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
582: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
583: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
584: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
585: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 586: <p>
1.73 deraadt 587:
1.75 mickey 588: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 589: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 590: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 591: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
592: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
593: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
594: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
595: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 596: <p>
1.73 deraadt 597:
1.80 deraadt 598: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 599: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
600: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
601: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 602: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 603: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 604: <p>
605:
1.93 louis 606: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 607: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
608: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
609: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
610: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 611: <p>
612:
1.132 louis 613: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
614: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
615: California, USA.</strong></a>
616: <br>
617: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
618: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 619: <p>
620:
1.132 louis 621: <a name=defcon98>
622: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
623: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
624: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
625: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
626: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
627: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
628: <br>
629: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
630: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
631: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
632: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 633: <p>
1.94 deraadt 634:
1.132 louis 635: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
636: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
637: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
638: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
639: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
640: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
641: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 642: <p>
643:
1.101 wvdputte 644: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 645: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
646: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 647: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 648: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
649: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
650: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
651: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
652: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
653: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
654: <br>
655: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
656: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 657: <p>
658:
1.105 wvdputte 659: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 660: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
661: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
662: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
663: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
664: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
665: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 666: <br>
1.132 louis 667: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
668: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 669:
1.132 louis 670: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 671:
1.113 deraadt 672: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 673: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
674: </strong><br>
675: Niels held a
676: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
677: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
678: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 679: <p>
1.132 louis 680:
681: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
682: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
683: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
684: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 685: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 686:
1.132 louis 687: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
688: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
689: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
690: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
691: <br>
692: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 693: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 694: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 695: <p>
696:
1.125 deraadt 697: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 698: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
699: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
700: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
701: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
702: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 703:
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