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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
1.162 ! millert 45: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
! 46: are available.
1.161 millert 47: <p>
48:
1.152 jakob 49: <h3>2001</h3>
50:
1.160 jufi 51: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
52: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
53: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
54: <p>
55:
56: <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>
57: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
58: <p>
59:
1.158 deraadt 60: <li><strong>
61: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
62: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
63: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
64: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
65: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
66: <p>
67:
1.156 provos 68: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
69: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
70: <p>
71:
72: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
73: Jakob and Itojun were there.
74: <p>
1.158 deraadt 75:
1.150 wvdputte 76: <li><strong>
77: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
78: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 79: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
80: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
81: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 82: <p>
1.137 aaron 83:
84: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 85: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
86: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
87: </strong><br>
88: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
89: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
90: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
91: <p>
92:
93: <li><strong>
94: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
95: </strong><br>
96: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
97: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
98: <p>
99:
100: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 101: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
102: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
103: </strong><br>
104: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
105: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
106: <p>
107:
108: <li><strong>
109: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
110: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
111: </strong><br>
112: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
113: <p>
114:
115: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 116: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
117: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
118: </strong><br>
119: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
120: security community.
121: <p>
122:
123: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 124: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
125: </strong><br>
126: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
127: <p>
128:
129: <li><strong>
130: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
131: </strong><br>
132: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
133: <p>
134:
1.132 louis 135: <h3>2000</h3>
136:
137: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 138: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
139: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
140: </strong><br>
141: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
142: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
143: <p>
144:
145: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 146: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
147: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
148: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
149: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
150: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
151: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 152: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 153: <p>
154:
155: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 156: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
157: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
158: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
159: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 160: <p>
1.4 millert 161:
1.132 louis 162: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
163: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 164: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 165: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 166: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 167: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
168: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
169:
170: <ul>
1.159 miod 171: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
172: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 173: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
174: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
175: </ul>
1.4 millert 176: <p>
1.132 louis 177:
1.7 deraadt 178: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 179: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
180: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
181: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
182: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
183: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
184: mind (drinks afterwards).
185: <p>
186:
187: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 188: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 189: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
190: questions.
1.32 deraadt 191: <p>
1.1 deraadt 192:
1.132 louis 193: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
194: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
195: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 196: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
197: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 198: <p>
199:
1.132 louis 200: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
201: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
202: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
203: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
204: <ul>
205: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
206: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
207: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
208: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
209: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
210: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 211: <p>
1.132 louis 212:
1.10 provos 213: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 214: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
215: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
216: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
217: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
218: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
219: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
220: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
221: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
222: <br>
223: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
224: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
225: <p>
1.32 deraadt 226:
1.132 louis 227: <li><strong>
228: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
229: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
230: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
231: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
232: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
233: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
234: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
235: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
236: and spoke about
237: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
238: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
239: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
240: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 241: <p>
1.132 louis 242:
1.6 deraadt 243: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 244: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
245: LinuxTag 2000,
246: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
247: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
248: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
249: <br>
250: Christian Weisgerber gave a
251: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
252: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 253: <p>
1.1 deraadt 254:
1.6 deraadt 255: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 256: <a name=usenix2000>
257: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 258: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 259: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
260: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
261: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
262: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
263: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
264: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 265: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 266: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
267: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
268: <ul>
269:
270: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
271: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
272: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
273: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
274: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
275: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
276:
277: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
278: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
279: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
280: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
281: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
282: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 283:
1.132 louis 284: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
285: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
286: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
287: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 288: <p>
289:
1.132 louis 290: <li><strong>
291: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
292: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
293: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
294: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
295: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
296: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 297: <p>
1.2 deraadt 298:
1.132 louis 299: <li><strong>
300: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
301: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
302: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
303: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
304: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
305: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
306: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
307: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 308: <p>
1.11 jkatz 309:
1.17 deraadt 310: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 311: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
312: CONVERGENCE 2000.
313: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
314: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
315: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
316: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
317: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
318: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 319: <p>
1.17 deraadt 320:
1.23 niklas 321: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 322: CanSecWest.
323: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
324: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
325: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
326: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
327: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
328: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
329: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
330: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 331: <p>
1.25 deraadt 332:
1.132 louis 333: <li><strong>
334: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
335: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
336: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
337: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
338: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
339: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 340: <p>
1.23 niklas 341:
1.31 deraadt 342: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 343: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
344: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
345: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 346: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 347: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
348: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
349: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
350: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 351: <p>
1.31 deraadt 352:
1.132 louis 353: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 354: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 355: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
356: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
357: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
358: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 359: <p>
360:
1.132 louis 361: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 362:
1.132 louis 363: <li>
364: <strong>
365: The Bazaar.
366: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
367: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
368: firewalls with OpenBSD.
369: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
370: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
371: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
372: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 373: <p>
374:
1.132 louis 375: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 376: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 377: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
378: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
379: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
380: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
381: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
382: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
383: There were many other OpenBSD
384: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
385: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
386:
387: <ul>
388: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
389: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
390: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
391: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
392: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
393: </ul>
394: <p>
395:
396: <li><strong>
397: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
398: IP-dagarna 1999
399: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
400: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
401: <p>
402:
403: <li><strong>
404: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
405: Linux & Open Source Software '99
406: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
407: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
408: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
409: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
410: <p>
411:
412: <li><strong>
413: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
414: Reflections/Projections 1999
415: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
416: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
417: developers from the east coast attended as well.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
421: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
422: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
423: (in swedish)</strong><br>
424: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
425: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
426: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
427: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
428: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
429: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
430: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
431: conference in Stockholm.
432: <p>
433:
434: <li><strong>
435: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
436: AUUG'99.
437: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
438: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
439: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
440: coordinated.
441: <p>
442:
443: <li><strong>
444: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
445: Usenix Security.
446: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
447: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
448: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
449: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
450: significant security roles.
451: <p>
452:
453: <li><strong>
454: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
455: 45th IETF meeting.
456: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
457: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
458: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
459: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
460: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
461: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
462: <p>
1.45 jason 463:
1.132 louis 464: <li><strong>
465: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
466: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
467: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
468: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 469: <p>
1.132 louis 470:
1.46 deraadt 471: <a name=usenix99>
472: <li><strong>
473: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
474: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 475: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 476: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 477: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 478: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
479: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 480: June.)
1.132 louis 481: <br>
1.46 deraadt 482: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 483: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
484:
1.46 deraadt 485: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 486: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 487: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 488: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 489: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
490: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 491: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
492: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 493: <br>
1.66 deraadt 494: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 495: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 496: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 497: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
498: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
499: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 500: <br>
1.66 deraadt 501: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 502: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 503: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
504: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
505: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
506: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
507: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 508: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
509: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 510: <br>
1.66 deraadt 511: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 512: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 513: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
514: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 515: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
516: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 517: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 518: <p>
1.46 deraadt 519:
1.51 deraadt 520: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 521: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
522: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
523: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
524: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
525: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
526: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
527: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
528: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 529: <p>
530:
1.53 jakob 531: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 532: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
533: 44th IETF meeting.
534: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
535: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
536: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 537: <p>
538:
1.132 louis 539: <li><strong>
540: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
541: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
542: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
543: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
544: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
545: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 546: <p>
547:
1.132 louis 548: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 549:
1.132 louis 550: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
551: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
552: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
553: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
554: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 555: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 556: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
557: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
558: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
559: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 560: <p>
561:
1.71 niklas 562: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 563: <a name=lisaboston-98>
564: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
565: 12th Systems Administration Conference
566: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
567: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
568: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
569: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
570: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
571: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
572: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
573: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
574: <br>
575: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
576: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
577: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 578: <p>
579:
1.73 deraadt 580: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 581: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
582: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
583: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
584: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
585: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
586: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 587: <p>
1.73 deraadt 588:
1.75 mickey 589: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 590: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 591: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 592: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
593: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
594: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
595: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
596: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 597: <p>
1.73 deraadt 598:
1.80 deraadt 599: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 600: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
601: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
602: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 603: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 604: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 605: <p>
606:
1.93 louis 607: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 608: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
609: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
610: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
611: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 612: <p>
613:
1.132 louis 614: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
615: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
616: California, USA.</strong></a>
617: <br>
618: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
619: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 620: <p>
621:
1.132 louis 622: <a name=defcon98>
623: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
624: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
625: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
626: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
627: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
628: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
629: <br>
630: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
631: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
632: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
633: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 634: <p>
1.94 deraadt 635:
1.132 louis 636: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
637: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
638: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
639: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
640: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
641: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
642: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 643: <p>
644:
1.101 wvdputte 645: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 646: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
647: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 648: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 649: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
650: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
651: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
652: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
653: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
654: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
655: <br>
656: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
657: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 658: <p>
659:
1.105 wvdputte 660: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 661: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
662: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
663: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
664: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
665: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
666: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 667: <br>
1.132 louis 668: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
669: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 670:
1.132 louis 671: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 672:
1.113 deraadt 673: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 674: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
675: </strong><br>
676: Niels held a
677: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
678: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
679: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 680: <p>
1.132 louis 681:
682: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
683: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
684: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
685: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 686: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 687:
1.132 louis 688: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
689: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
690: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
691: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
692: <br>
693: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 694: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 695: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 696: <p>
697:
1.125 deraadt 698: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 699: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
700: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
701: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
702: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
703: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 704:
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