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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.
1.165 ian 18: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
19: like-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:
1.165 ian 29: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
30: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
31: will take place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
32: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
33: will have a chance to prove their value.
34: Edson Brandi will speak on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
35: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
36:
1.152 jakob 37: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 47: <h2>Past events:</h2>
48: <dl>
49:
1.161 millert 50: <h3>2002</h3>
51: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
52: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 53: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
54: are available.
1.161 millert 55: <p>
56:
1.163 miod 57: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
58: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
59: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
60: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
61: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
62: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
63: <p>
64:
1.164 millert 65: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
66: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
67: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
68: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
69: <p>
70:
1.152 jakob 71: <h3>2001</h3>
72:
1.160 jufi 73: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
74: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
75: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
76: <p>
77:
78: <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>
79: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
80: <p>
81:
1.158 deraadt 82: <li><strong>
83: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
84: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
85: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
86: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
87: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
88: <p>
89:
1.156 provos 90: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
91: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
92: <p>
93:
94: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
95: Jakob and Itojun were there.
96: <p>
1.158 deraadt 97:
1.150 wvdputte 98: <li><strong>
99: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
100: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 101: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
102: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
103: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 104: <p>
1.137 aaron 105:
106: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 107: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
108: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
109: </strong><br>
110: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
111: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
112: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
113: <p>
114:
115: <li><strong>
116: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
117: </strong><br>
118: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
119: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
120: <p>
121:
122: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 123: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
124: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
125: </strong><br>
126: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
127: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
128: <p>
129:
130: <li><strong>
131: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
132: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
133: </strong><br>
134: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
135: <p>
136:
137: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 138: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
139: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
140: </strong><br>
141: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
142: security community.
143: <p>
144:
145: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 146: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
147: </strong><br>
148: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
149: <p>
150:
151: <li><strong>
152: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
153: </strong><br>
154: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
155: <p>
156:
1.132 louis 157: <h3>2000</h3>
158:
159: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 160: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
161: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
162: </strong><br>
163: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
164: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
165: <p>
166:
167: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 168: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
169: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
170: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
171: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
172: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
173: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 174: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 175: <p>
176:
177: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 178: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
179: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
180: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
181: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 182: <p>
1.4 millert 183:
1.132 louis 184: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
185: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 186: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 187: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 188: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 189: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
190: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
191:
192: <ul>
1.159 miod 193: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
194: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 195: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
196: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
197: </ul>
1.4 millert 198: <p>
1.132 louis 199:
1.7 deraadt 200: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 201: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
202: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
203: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
204: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
205: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
206: mind (drinks afterwards).
207: <p>
208:
209: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 210: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 211: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
212: questions.
1.32 deraadt 213: <p>
1.1 deraadt 214:
1.132 louis 215: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
216: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
217: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 218: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
219: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 220: <p>
221:
1.132 louis 222: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
223: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
224: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
225: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
226: <ul>
227: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
228: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
229: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
230: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
231: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
232: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 233: <p>
1.132 louis 234:
1.10 provos 235: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 236: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
237: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
238: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
239: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
240: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
241: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
242: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
243: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
244: <br>
245: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
246: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
247: <p>
1.32 deraadt 248:
1.132 louis 249: <li><strong>
250: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
251: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
252: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
253: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
254: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
255: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
256: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
257: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
258: and spoke about
259: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
260: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
261: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
262: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 263: <p>
1.132 louis 264:
1.6 deraadt 265: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 266: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
267: LinuxTag 2000,
268: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
269: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
270: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
271: <br>
272: Christian Weisgerber gave a
273: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
274: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 275: <p>
1.1 deraadt 276:
1.6 deraadt 277: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 278: <a name=usenix2000>
279: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 280: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 281: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
282: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
283: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
284: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
285: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
286: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 287: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 288: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
289: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
290: <ul>
291:
292: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
293: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
294: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
295: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
296: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
297: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
298:
299: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
300: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
301: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
302: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
303: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
304: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 305:
1.132 louis 306: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
307: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
308: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
309: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 310: <p>
311:
1.132 louis 312: <li><strong>
313: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
314: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
315: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
316: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
317: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
318: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 319: <p>
1.2 deraadt 320:
1.132 louis 321: <li><strong>
322: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
323: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
324: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
325: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
326: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
327: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
328: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
329: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 330: <p>
1.11 jkatz 331:
1.17 deraadt 332: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 333: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
334: CONVERGENCE 2000.
335: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
336: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
337: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
338: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
339: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
340: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 341: <p>
1.17 deraadt 342:
1.23 niklas 343: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 344: CanSecWest.
345: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
346: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
347: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
348: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
349: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
350: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
351: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
352: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 353: <p>
1.25 deraadt 354:
1.132 louis 355: <li><strong>
356: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
357: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
358: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
359: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
360: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
361: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 362: <p>
1.23 niklas 363:
1.31 deraadt 364: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 365: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
366: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
367: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 368: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 369: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
370: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
371: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
372: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 373: <p>
1.31 deraadt 374:
1.132 louis 375: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 376: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 377: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
378: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
379: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
380: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 381: <p>
382:
1.132 louis 383: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 384:
1.132 louis 385: <li>
386: <strong>
387: The Bazaar.
388: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
389: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
390: firewalls with OpenBSD.
391: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
392: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
393: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
394: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 395: <p>
396:
1.132 louis 397: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 398: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 399: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
400: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
401: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
402: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
403: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
404: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
405: There were many other OpenBSD
406: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
407: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
408:
409: <ul>
410: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
411: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
412: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
413: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
414: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
415: </ul>
416: <p>
417:
418: <li><strong>
419: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
420: IP-dagarna 1999
421: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
422: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
423: <p>
424:
425: <li><strong>
426: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
427: Linux & Open Source Software '99
428: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
429: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
430: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
431: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
432: <p>
433:
434: <li><strong>
435: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
436: Reflections/Projections 1999
437: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
438: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
439: developers from the east coast attended as well.
440: <p>
441:
442: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
443: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
444: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
445: (in swedish)</strong><br>
446: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
447: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
448: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
449: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
450: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
451: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
452: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
453: conference in Stockholm.
454: <p>
455:
456: <li><strong>
457: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
458: AUUG'99.
459: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
460: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
461: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
462: coordinated.
463: <p>
464:
465: <li><strong>
466: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
467: Usenix Security.
468: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
469: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
470: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
471: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
472: significant security roles.
473: <p>
474:
475: <li><strong>
476: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
477: 45th IETF meeting.
478: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
479: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
480: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
481: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 ! miod 482: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 483: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
484: <p>
1.45 jason 485:
1.132 louis 486: <li><strong>
487: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
488: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
489: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
490: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 491: <p>
1.132 louis 492:
1.46 deraadt 493: <a name=usenix99>
494: <li><strong>
495: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
496: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 497: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 498: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 499: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 500: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
501: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 502: June.)
1.132 louis 503: <br>
1.46 deraadt 504: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 505: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
506:
1.46 deraadt 507: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 508: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 509: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 510: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 511: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
512: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 513: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
514: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 515: <br>
1.66 deraadt 516: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 517: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 518: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 519: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
520: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
521: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 522: <br>
1.66 deraadt 523: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 524: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 525: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
526: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
527: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
528: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
529: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 530: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
531: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 532: <br>
1.66 deraadt 533: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 534: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 535: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
536: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 537: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
538: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 539: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 540: <p>
1.46 deraadt 541:
1.51 deraadt 542: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 543: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
544: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
545: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
546: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
547: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
548: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
549: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
550: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 551: <p>
552:
1.53 jakob 553: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 554: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
555: 44th IETF meeting.
556: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
557: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
558: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 559: <p>
560:
1.132 louis 561: <li><strong>
562: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
563: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
564: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
565: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
566: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
567: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 568: <p>
569:
1.132 louis 570: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 571:
1.132 louis 572: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
573: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
574: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
575: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
576: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 577: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 578: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
579: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
580: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
581: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 582: <p>
583:
1.71 niklas 584: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 585: <a name=lisaboston-98>
586: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
587: 12th Systems Administration Conference
588: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
589: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
590: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
591: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
592: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
593: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
594: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
595: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
596: <br>
597: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
598: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
599: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 600: <p>
601:
1.73 deraadt 602: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 603: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
604: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
605: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
606: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
607: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
608: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 609: <p>
1.73 deraadt 610:
1.75 mickey 611: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 612: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 613: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 614: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
615: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
616: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
617: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
618: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 619: <p>
1.73 deraadt 620:
1.80 deraadt 621: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 622: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
623: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
624: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 625: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 626: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 627: <p>
628:
1.93 louis 629: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 630: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
631: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
632: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
633: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 634: <p>
635:
1.132 louis 636: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
637: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
638: California, USA.</strong></a>
639: <br>
640: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
641: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 642: <p>
643:
1.132 louis 644: <a name=defcon98>
645: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
646: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
647: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
648: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
649: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
650: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
651: <br>
652: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
653: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
654: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
655: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 656: <p>
1.94 deraadt 657:
1.132 louis 658: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
659: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
660: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
661: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
662: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
663: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
664: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 665: <p>
666:
1.101 wvdputte 667: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 668: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
669: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 670: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 671: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
672: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
673: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
674: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
675: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
676: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
677: <br>
678: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
679: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 680: <p>
681:
1.105 wvdputte 682: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 683: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
684: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
685: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
686: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
687: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
688: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 689: <br>
1.132 louis 690: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
691: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 692:
1.132 louis 693: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 694:
1.113 deraadt 695: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 696: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
697: </strong><br>
698: Niels held a
699: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
700: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
701: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 702: <p>
1.132 louis 703:
704: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 ! miod 705: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 706: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
707: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 708: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 709:
1.132 louis 710: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
711: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
712: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
713: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
714: <br>
715: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 716: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 717: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 718: <p>
719:
1.125 deraadt 720: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 721: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
722: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
723: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
724: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
725: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 726:
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