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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.
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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:
1.163 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:
1.164 ! millert 57: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
! 58: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
! 59: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
! 60: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
! 61: <p>
! 62:
1.152 jakob 63: <h3>2001</h3>
64:
1.160 jufi 65: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
66: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
67: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
68: <p>
69:
70: <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>
71: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
72: <p>
73:
1.158 deraadt 74: <li><strong>
75: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
76: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
77: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
78: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
79: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
80: <p>
81:
1.156 provos 82: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
83: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
84: <p>
85:
86: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
87: Jakob and Itojun were there.
88: <p>
1.158 deraadt 89:
1.150 wvdputte 90: <li><strong>
91: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
92: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 93: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
94: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
95: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 96: <p>
1.137 aaron 97:
98: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 99: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
100: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
101: </strong><br>
102: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
103: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
104: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
105: <p>
106:
107: <li><strong>
108: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
109: </strong><br>
110: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
111: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
112: <p>
113:
114: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 115: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
116: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
117: </strong><br>
118: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
119: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
120: <p>
121:
122: <li><strong>
123: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
124: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
125: </strong><br>
126: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
127: <p>
128:
129: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 130: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
131: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
132: </strong><br>
133: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
134: security community.
135: <p>
136:
137: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 138: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
139: </strong><br>
140: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
141: <p>
142:
143: <li><strong>
144: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
145: </strong><br>
146: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
147: <p>
148:
1.132 louis 149: <h3>2000</h3>
150:
151: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 152: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
153: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
154: </strong><br>
155: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
156: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
157: <p>
158:
159: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 160: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
161: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
162: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
163: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
164: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
165: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 166: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 167: <p>
168:
169: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 170: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
171: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
172: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
173: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 174: <p>
1.4 millert 175:
1.132 louis 176: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
177: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 178: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 179: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 180: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 181: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
182: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
183:
184: <ul>
1.159 miod 185: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
186: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 187: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
188: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
189: </ul>
1.4 millert 190: <p>
1.132 louis 191:
1.7 deraadt 192: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 193: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
194: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
195: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
196: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
197: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
198: mind (drinks afterwards).
199: <p>
200:
201: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 202: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 203: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
204: questions.
1.32 deraadt 205: <p>
1.1 deraadt 206:
1.132 louis 207: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
208: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
209: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 210: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
211: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 212: <p>
213:
1.132 louis 214: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
215: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
216: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
217: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
218: <ul>
219: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
220: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
221: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
222: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
223: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
224: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 225: <p>
1.132 louis 226:
1.10 provos 227: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 228: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
229: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
230: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
231: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
232: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
233: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
234: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
235: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
236: <br>
237: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
238: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
239: <p>
1.32 deraadt 240:
1.132 louis 241: <li><strong>
242: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
243: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
244: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
245: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
246: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
247: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
248: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
249: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
250: and spoke about
251: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
252: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
253: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
254: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 255: <p>
1.132 louis 256:
1.6 deraadt 257: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 258: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
259: LinuxTag 2000,
260: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
261: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
262: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
263: <br>
264: Christian Weisgerber gave a
265: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
266: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 267: <p>
1.1 deraadt 268:
1.6 deraadt 269: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 270: <a name=usenix2000>
271: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 272: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 273: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
274: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
275: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
276: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
277: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
278: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 279: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 280: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
281: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
282: <ul>
283:
284: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
285: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
286: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
287: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
288: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
289: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
290:
291: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
292: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
293: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
294: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
295: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
296: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 297:
1.132 louis 298: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
299: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
300: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
301: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 302: <p>
303:
1.132 louis 304: <li><strong>
305: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
306: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
307: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
308: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
309: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
310: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 311: <p>
1.2 deraadt 312:
1.132 louis 313: <li><strong>
314: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
315: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
316: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
317: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
318: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
319: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
320: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
321: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 322: <p>
1.11 jkatz 323:
1.17 deraadt 324: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 325: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
326: CONVERGENCE 2000.
327: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
328: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
329: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
330: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
331: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
332: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 333: <p>
1.17 deraadt 334:
1.23 niklas 335: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 336: CanSecWest.
337: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
338: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
339: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
340: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
341: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
342: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
343: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
344: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 345: <p>
1.25 deraadt 346:
1.132 louis 347: <li><strong>
348: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
349: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
350: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
351: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
352: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
353: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 354: <p>
1.23 niklas 355:
1.31 deraadt 356: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 357: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
358: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
359: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 360: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 361: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
362: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
363: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
364: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 365: <p>
1.31 deraadt 366:
1.132 louis 367: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 368: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 369: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
370: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
371: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
372: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 373: <p>
374:
1.132 louis 375: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 376:
1.132 louis 377: <li>
378: <strong>
379: The Bazaar.
380: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
381: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
382: firewalls with OpenBSD.
383: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
384: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
385: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
386: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 387: <p>
388:
1.132 louis 389: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 390: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 391: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
392: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
393: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
394: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
395: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
396: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
397: There were many other OpenBSD
398: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
399: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
400:
401: <ul>
402: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
403: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
404: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
405: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
406: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
407: </ul>
408: <p>
409:
410: <li><strong>
411: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
412: IP-dagarna 1999
413: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
414: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
415: <p>
416:
417: <li><strong>
418: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
419: Linux & Open Source Software '99
420: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
421: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
422: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
423: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
424: <p>
425:
426: <li><strong>
427: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
428: Reflections/Projections 1999
429: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
430: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
431: developers from the east coast attended as well.
432: <p>
433:
434: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
435: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
436: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
437: (in swedish)</strong><br>
438: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
439: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
440: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
441: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
442: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
443: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
444: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
445: conference in Stockholm.
446: <p>
447:
448: <li><strong>
449: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
450: AUUG'99.
451: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
452: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
453: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
454: coordinated.
455: <p>
456:
457: <li><strong>
458: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
459: Usenix Security.
460: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
461: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
462: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
463: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
464: significant security roles.
465: <p>
466:
467: <li><strong>
468: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
469: 45th IETF meeting.
470: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
471: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
472: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
473: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
474: the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
475: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
476: <p>
1.45 jason 477:
1.132 louis 478: <li><strong>
479: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
480: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
481: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
482: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 483: <p>
1.132 louis 484:
1.46 deraadt 485: <a name=usenix99>
486: <li><strong>
487: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
488: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 489: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 490: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 491: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 492: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
493: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 494: June.)
1.132 louis 495: <br>
1.46 deraadt 496: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 497: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
498:
1.46 deraadt 499: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 500: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 501: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 502: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 503: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
504: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 505: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
506: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 507: <br>
1.66 deraadt 508: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 509: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 510: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 511: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
512: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
513: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 514: <br>
1.66 deraadt 515: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 516: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 517: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
518: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
519: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
520: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
521: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 522: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
523: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 524: <br>
1.66 deraadt 525: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 526: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 527: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
528: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 529: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
530: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 531: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 532: <p>
1.46 deraadt 533:
1.51 deraadt 534: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 535: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
536: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
537: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
538: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
539: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
540: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
541: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
542: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 543: <p>
544:
1.53 jakob 545: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 546: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
547: 44th IETF meeting.
548: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
549: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
550: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 551: <p>
552:
1.132 louis 553: <li><strong>
554: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
555: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
556: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
557: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
558: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
559: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 560: <p>
561:
1.132 louis 562: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 563:
1.132 louis 564: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
565: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
566: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
567: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
568: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 569: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 570: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
571: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
572: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
573: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 574: <p>
575:
1.71 niklas 576: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 577: <a name=lisaboston-98>
578: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
579: 12th Systems Administration Conference
580: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
581: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
582: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
583: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
584: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
585: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
586: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
587: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
588: <br>
589: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
590: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
591: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 592: <p>
593:
1.73 deraadt 594: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 595: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
596: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
597: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
598: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
599: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
600: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 601: <p>
1.73 deraadt 602:
1.75 mickey 603: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 604: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 605: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 606: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
607: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
608: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
609: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
610: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 611: <p>
1.73 deraadt 612:
1.80 deraadt 613: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 614: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
615: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
616: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 617: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 618: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 619: <p>
620:
1.93 louis 621: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 622: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
623: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
624: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
625: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 626: <p>
627:
1.132 louis 628: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
629: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
630: California, USA.</strong></a>
631: <br>
632: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
633: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 634: <p>
635:
1.132 louis 636: <a name=defcon98>
637: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
638: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
639: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
640: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
641: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
642: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
643: <br>
644: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
645: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
646: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
647: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 648: <p>
1.94 deraadt 649:
1.132 louis 650: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
651: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
652: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
653: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
654: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
655: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
656: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 657: <p>
658:
1.101 wvdputte 659: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 660: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
661: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 662: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 663: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
664: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
665: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
666: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
667: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
668: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
669: <br>
670: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
671: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 672: <p>
673:
1.105 wvdputte 674: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 675: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
676: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
677: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
678: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
679: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
680: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 681: <br>
1.132 louis 682: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
683: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 684:
1.132 louis 685: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 686:
1.113 deraadt 687: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 688: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
689: </strong><br>
690: Niels held a
691: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
692: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
693: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 694: <p>
1.132 louis 695:
696: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
697: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
698: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
699: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 700: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 701:
1.132 louis 702: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
703: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
704: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
705: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
706: <br>
707: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 708: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 709: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 710: <p>
711:
1.125 deraadt 712: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 713: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
714: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
715: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
716: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
717: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 718:
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