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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>
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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:
1.163 ! miod 49: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
! 50: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
! 51: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
! 52: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
! 53: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
! 54: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
! 55: <p>
! 56:
1.152 jakob 57: <h3>2001</h3>
58:
1.160 jufi 59: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
60: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
61: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
62: <p>
63:
64: <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>
65: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
66: <p>
67:
1.158 deraadt 68: <li><strong>
69: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
70: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
71: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
72: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
73: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
74: <p>
75:
1.156 provos 76: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
77: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
78: <p>
79:
80: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
81: Jakob and Itojun were there.
82: <p>
1.158 deraadt 83:
1.150 wvdputte 84: <li><strong>
85: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
86: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 87: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
88: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
89: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 90: <p>
1.137 aaron 91:
92: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 93: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
94: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
95: </strong><br>
96: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
97: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
98: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
99: <p>
100:
101: <li><strong>
102: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
103: </strong><br>
104: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
105: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
106: <p>
107:
108: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 109: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
110: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
111: </strong><br>
112: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
113: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
114: <p>
115:
116: <li><strong>
117: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
118: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
119: </strong><br>
120: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
121: <p>
122:
123: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 124: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
125: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
126: </strong><br>
127: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
128: security community.
129: <p>
130:
131: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 132: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
133: </strong><br>
134: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
135: <p>
136:
137: <li><strong>
138: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
139: </strong><br>
140: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
141: <p>
142:
1.132 louis 143: <h3>2000</h3>
144:
145: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 146: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
147: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
148: </strong><br>
149: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
150: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
151: <p>
152:
153: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 154: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
155: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
156: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
157: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
158: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
159: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 160: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 161: <p>
162:
163: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 164: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
165: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
166: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
167: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 168: <p>
1.4 millert 169:
1.132 louis 170: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
171: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 172: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 173: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 174: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 175: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
176: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
177:
178: <ul>
1.159 miod 179: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
180: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 181: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
182: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
183: </ul>
1.4 millert 184: <p>
1.132 louis 185:
1.7 deraadt 186: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 187: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
188: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
189: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
190: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
191: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
192: mind (drinks afterwards).
193: <p>
194:
195: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 196: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 197: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
198: questions.
1.32 deraadt 199: <p>
1.1 deraadt 200:
1.132 louis 201: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
202: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
203: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 204: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
205: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 206: <p>
207:
1.132 louis 208: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
209: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
210: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
211: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
212: <ul>
213: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
214: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
215: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
216: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
217: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
218: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 219: <p>
1.132 louis 220:
1.10 provos 221: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 222: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
223: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
224: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
225: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
226: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
227: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
228: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
229: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
230: <br>
231: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
232: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
233: <p>
1.32 deraadt 234:
1.132 louis 235: <li><strong>
236: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
237: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
238: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
239: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
240: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
241: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
242: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
243: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
244: and spoke about
245: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
246: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
247: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
248: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 249: <p>
1.132 louis 250:
1.6 deraadt 251: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 252: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
253: LinuxTag 2000,
254: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
255: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
256: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
257: <br>
258: Christian Weisgerber gave a
259: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
260: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 261: <p>
1.1 deraadt 262:
1.6 deraadt 263: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 264: <a name=usenix2000>
265: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 266: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 267: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
268: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
269: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
270: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
271: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
272: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 273: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 274: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
275: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
276: <ul>
277:
278: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
279: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
280: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
281: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
282: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
283: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
284:
285: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
286: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
287: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
288: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
289: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
290: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 291:
1.132 louis 292: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
293: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
294: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
295: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 296: <p>
297:
1.132 louis 298: <li><strong>
299: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
300: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
301: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
302: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
303: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
304: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 305: <p>
1.2 deraadt 306:
1.132 louis 307: <li><strong>
308: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
309: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
310: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
311: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
312: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
313: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
314: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
315: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 316: <p>
1.11 jkatz 317:
1.17 deraadt 318: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 319: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
320: CONVERGENCE 2000.
321: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
322: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
323: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
324: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
325: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
326: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 327: <p>
1.17 deraadt 328:
1.23 niklas 329: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 330: CanSecWest.
331: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
332: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
333: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
334: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
335: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
336: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
337: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
338: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 339: <p>
1.25 deraadt 340:
1.132 louis 341: <li><strong>
342: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
343: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
344: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
345: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
346: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
347: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 348: <p>
1.23 niklas 349:
1.31 deraadt 350: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 351: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
352: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
353: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 354: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 355: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
356: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
357: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
358: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 359: <p>
1.31 deraadt 360:
1.132 louis 361: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 362: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 363: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
364: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
365: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
366: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 367: <p>
368:
1.132 louis 369: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 370:
1.132 louis 371: <li>
372: <strong>
373: The Bazaar.
374: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
375: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
376: firewalls with OpenBSD.
377: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
378: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
379: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
380: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 381: <p>
382:
1.132 louis 383: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 384: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 385: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
386: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
387: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
388: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
389: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
390: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
391: There were many other OpenBSD
392: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
393: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
394:
395: <ul>
396: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
397: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
398: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
399: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
400: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
401: </ul>
402: <p>
403:
404: <li><strong>
405: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
406: IP-dagarna 1999
407: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
408: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
409: <p>
410:
411: <li><strong>
412: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
413: Linux & Open Source Software '99
414: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
415: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
416: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
417: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><strong>
421: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
422: Reflections/Projections 1999
423: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
424: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
425: developers from the east coast attended as well.
426: <p>
427:
428: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
429: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
430: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
431: (in swedish)</strong><br>
432: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
433: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
434: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
435: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
436: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
437: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
438: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
439: conference in Stockholm.
440: <p>
441:
442: <li><strong>
443: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
444: AUUG'99.
445: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
446: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
447: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
448: coordinated.
449: <p>
450:
451: <li><strong>
452: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
453: Usenix Security.
454: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
455: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
456: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
457: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
458: significant security roles.
459: <p>
460:
461: <li><strong>
462: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
463: 45th IETF meeting.
464: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
465: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
466: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
467: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
468: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
469: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
470: <p>
1.45 jason 471:
1.132 louis 472: <li><strong>
473: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
474: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
475: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
476: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 477: <p>
1.132 louis 478:
1.46 deraadt 479: <a name=usenix99>
480: <li><strong>
481: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
482: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 483: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 484: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 485: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 486: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
487: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 488: June.)
1.132 louis 489: <br>
1.46 deraadt 490: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 491: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
492:
1.46 deraadt 493: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 494: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 495: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 496: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 497: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
498: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 499: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
500: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 501: <br>
1.66 deraadt 502: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 503: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 504: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 505: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
506: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
507: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 508: <br>
1.66 deraadt 509: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 510: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 511: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
512: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
513: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
514: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
515: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 516: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
517: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 518: <br>
1.66 deraadt 519: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 520: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 521: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
522: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 523: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
524: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 525: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 526: <p>
1.46 deraadt 527:
1.51 deraadt 528: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 529: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
530: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
531: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
532: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
533: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
534: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
535: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
536: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 537: <p>
538:
1.53 jakob 539: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 540: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
541: 44th IETF meeting.
542: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
543: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
544: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 545: <p>
546:
1.132 louis 547: <li><strong>
548: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
549: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
550: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
551: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
552: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
553: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 554: <p>
555:
1.132 louis 556: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 557:
1.132 louis 558: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
559: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
560: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
561: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
562: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 563: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 564: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
565: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
566: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
567: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 568: <p>
569:
1.71 niklas 570: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 571: <a name=lisaboston-98>
572: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
573: 12th Systems Administration Conference
574: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
575: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
576: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
577: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
578: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
579: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
580: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
581: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
582: <br>
583: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
584: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
585: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 586: <p>
587:
1.73 deraadt 588: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 589: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
590: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
591: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
592: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
593: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
594: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 595: <p>
1.73 deraadt 596:
1.75 mickey 597: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 598: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 599: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 600: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
601: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
602: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
603: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
604: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 605: <p>
1.73 deraadt 606:
1.80 deraadt 607: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 608: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
609: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
610: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 611: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 612: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 613: <p>
614:
1.93 louis 615: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 616: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
617: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
618: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
619: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 620: <p>
621:
1.132 louis 622: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
623: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
624: California, USA.</strong></a>
625: <br>
626: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
627: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 628: <p>
629:
1.132 louis 630: <a name=defcon98>
631: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
632: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
633: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
634: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
635: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
636: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
637: <br>
638: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
639: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
640: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
641: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 642: <p>
1.94 deraadt 643:
1.132 louis 644: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
645: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
646: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
647: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
648: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
649: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
650: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 651: <p>
652:
1.101 wvdputte 653: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 654: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
655: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 656: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 657: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
658: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
659: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
660: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
661: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
662: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
663: <br>
664: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
665: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 666: <p>
667:
1.105 wvdputte 668: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 669: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
670: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
671: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
672: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
673: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
674: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 675: <br>
1.132 louis 676: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
677: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 678:
1.132 louis 679: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 680:
1.113 deraadt 681: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 682: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
683: </strong><br>
684: Niels held a
685: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
686: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
687: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 688: <p>
1.132 louis 689:
690: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
691: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
692: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
693: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 694: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 695:
1.132 louis 696: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
697: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
698: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
699: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
700: <br>
701: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 702: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 703: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 704: <p>
705:
1.125 deraadt 706: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 707: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
708: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
709: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
710: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
711: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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