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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:
1.168 ! miod 29: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
! 30: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
! 31: will take place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
! 32: Several OpenBSD developers and users will attend the meeting, and
! 33: Niels Provos will present his
! 34: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
! 35: system call policy management tool.
1.165 ian 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>
1.168 ! miod 51: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
! 52: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
! 53: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
! 54: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
! 55: will have a chance to prove their value.
! 56: Edson Brandi will speak on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
! 57: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
! 58:
1.161 millert 59: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
60: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 61: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
62: are available.
1.161 millert 63: <p>
64:
1.163 miod 65: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
66: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
67: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
68: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
69: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
70: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
71: <p>
72:
1.164 millert 73: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
74: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
75: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
76: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
77: <p>
78:
1.152 jakob 79: <h3>2001</h3>
80:
1.160 jufi 81: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
82: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
83: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
84: <p>
85:
86: <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>
87: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
88: <p>
89:
1.158 deraadt 90: <li><strong>
91: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
92: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
93: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
94: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
95: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
96: <p>
97:
1.156 provos 98: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
99: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
100: <p>
101:
102: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
103: Jakob and Itojun were there.
104: <p>
1.158 deraadt 105:
1.150 wvdputte 106: <li><strong>
107: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
108: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 109: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
110: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
111: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 112: <p>
1.137 aaron 113:
114: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 115: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
116: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
117: </strong><br>
118: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
119: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
120: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
121: <p>
122:
123: <li><strong>
124: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
125: </strong><br>
126: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
127: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
128: <p>
129:
130: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 131: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
132: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
133: </strong><br>
134: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
135: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
136: <p>
137:
138: <li><strong>
139: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
140: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
141: </strong><br>
142: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
143: <p>
144:
145: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 146: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
147: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
148: </strong><br>
149: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
150: security community.
151: <p>
152:
153: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 154: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
155: </strong><br>
156: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
157: <p>
158:
159: <li><strong>
160: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
161: </strong><br>
162: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
163: <p>
164:
1.132 louis 165: <h3>2000</h3>
166:
167: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 168: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
169: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
170: </strong><br>
171: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
172: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
173: <p>
174:
175: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 176: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
177: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
178: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
179: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
180: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
181: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 182: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 183: <p>
184:
185: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 186: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
187: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
188: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
189: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 190: <p>
1.4 millert 191:
1.132 louis 192: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
193: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 194: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 195: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 196: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 197: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
198: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
199:
200: <ul>
1.159 miod 201: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
202: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 203: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
204: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
205: </ul>
1.4 millert 206: <p>
1.132 louis 207:
1.7 deraadt 208: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 209: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
210: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
211: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
212: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
213: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
214: mind (drinks afterwards).
215: <p>
216:
217: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 218: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 219: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
220: questions.
1.32 deraadt 221: <p>
1.1 deraadt 222:
1.132 louis 223: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
224: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
225: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 226: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
227: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 228: <p>
229:
1.132 louis 230: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
231: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
232: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
233: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
234: <ul>
235: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
236: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
237: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
238: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
239: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
240: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 241: <p>
1.132 louis 242:
1.10 provos 243: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 244: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
245: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
246: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
247: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
248: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
249: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
250: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
251: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
252: <br>
253: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
254: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
255: <p>
1.32 deraadt 256:
1.132 louis 257: <li><strong>
258: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
259: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
260: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
261: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
262: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
263: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
264: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
265: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
266: and spoke about
267: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
268: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
269: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
270: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 271: <p>
1.132 louis 272:
1.6 deraadt 273: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 274: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
275: LinuxTag 2000,
276: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
277: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
278: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
279: <br>
280: Christian Weisgerber gave a
281: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
282: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 283: <p>
1.1 deraadt 284:
1.6 deraadt 285: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 286: <a name=usenix2000>
287: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 288: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 289: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
290: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
291: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
292: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
293: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
294: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 295: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 296: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
297: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
298: <ul>
299:
300: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
301: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
302: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
303: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
304: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
305: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
306:
307: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
308: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
309: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
310: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
311: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
312: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 313:
1.132 louis 314: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
315: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
316: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
317: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 318: <p>
319:
1.132 louis 320: <li><strong>
321: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
322: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
323: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
324: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
325: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
326: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 327: <p>
1.2 deraadt 328:
1.132 louis 329: <li><strong>
330: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
331: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
332: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
333: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
334: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
335: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
336: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
337: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 338: <p>
1.11 jkatz 339:
1.17 deraadt 340: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 341: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
342: CONVERGENCE 2000.
343: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
344: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
345: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
346: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
347: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
348: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 349: <p>
1.17 deraadt 350:
1.23 niklas 351: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 352: CanSecWest.
353: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
354: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
355: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
356: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
357: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
358: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
359: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
360: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 361: <p>
1.25 deraadt 362:
1.132 louis 363: <li><strong>
364: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
365: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
366: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
367: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
368: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
369: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 370: <p>
1.23 niklas 371:
1.31 deraadt 372: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 373: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
374: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
375: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 376: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 377: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
378: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
379: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
380: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 381: <p>
1.31 deraadt 382:
1.132 louis 383: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 384: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 385: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
386: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
387: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
388: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 389: <p>
390:
1.132 louis 391: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 392:
1.132 louis 393: <li>
394: <strong>
395: The Bazaar.
396: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
397: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
398: firewalls with OpenBSD.
399: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
400: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
401: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
402: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 403: <p>
404:
1.132 louis 405: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 406: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 407: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
408: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
409: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
410: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
411: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
412: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
413: There were many other OpenBSD
414: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
415: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
416:
417: <ul>
418: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
419: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
420: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
421: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
422: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
423: </ul>
424: <p>
425:
426: <li><strong>
427: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
428: IP-dagarna 1999
429: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
430: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
431: <p>
432:
433: <li><strong>
434: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
435: Linux & Open Source Software '99
436: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
437: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
438: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
439: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
440: <p>
441:
442: <li><strong>
443: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
444: Reflections/Projections 1999
445: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
446: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
447: developers from the east coast attended as well.
448: <p>
449:
450: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
451: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
452: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
453: (in swedish)</strong><br>
454: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
455: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
456: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
457: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
458: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
459: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
460: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
461: conference in Stockholm.
462: <p>
463:
464: <li><strong>
465: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
466: AUUG'99.
467: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
468: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
469: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
470: coordinated.
471: <p>
472:
473: <li><strong>
474: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
475: Usenix Security.
476: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
477: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
478: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
479: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
480: significant security roles.
481: <p>
482:
483: <li><strong>
484: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
485: 45th IETF meeting.
486: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
487: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
488: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
489: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 490: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 491: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
492: <p>
1.45 jason 493:
1.132 louis 494: <li><strong>
495: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
496: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
497: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
498: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 499: <p>
1.132 louis 500:
1.46 deraadt 501: <a name=usenix99>
502: <li><strong>
503: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
504: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 505: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 506: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 507: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 508: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
509: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 510: June.)
1.132 louis 511: <br>
1.46 deraadt 512: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 513: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
514:
1.46 deraadt 515: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 516: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 517: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 518: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 519: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
520: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 521: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
522: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 523: <br>
1.66 deraadt 524: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 525: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 526: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 527: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
528: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
529: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 530: <br>
1.66 deraadt 531: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 532: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 533: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
534: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
535: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
536: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
537: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 538: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
539: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 540: <br>
1.66 deraadt 541: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 542: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 543: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
544: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 545: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
546: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 547: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 548: <p>
1.46 deraadt 549:
1.51 deraadt 550: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 551: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
552: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
553: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
554: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
555: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
556: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
557: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
558: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 559: <p>
560:
1.53 jakob 561: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 562: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
563: 44th IETF meeting.
564: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
565: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
566: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 567: <p>
568:
1.132 louis 569: <li><strong>
570: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
571: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
572: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
573: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
574: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
575: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 576: <p>
577:
1.132 louis 578: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 579:
1.132 louis 580: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
581: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
582: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
583: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
584: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 585: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 586: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
587: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
588: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
589: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 590: <p>
591:
1.71 niklas 592: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 593: <a name=lisaboston-98>
594: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
595: 12th Systems Administration Conference
596: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
597: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
598: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
599: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
600: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
601: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
602: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
603: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
604: <br>
605: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
606: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
607: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 608: <p>
609:
1.73 deraadt 610: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 611: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
612: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
613: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
614: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
615: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
616: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 617: <p>
1.73 deraadt 618:
1.75 mickey 619: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 620: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 621: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 622: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
623: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
624: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
625: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
626: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 627: <p>
1.73 deraadt 628:
1.80 deraadt 629: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 630: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
631: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
632: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 633: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 634: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 635: <p>
636:
1.93 louis 637: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 638: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
639: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
640: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
641: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 642: <p>
643:
1.132 louis 644: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
645: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
646: California, USA.</strong></a>
647: <br>
648: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
649: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 650: <p>
651:
1.132 louis 652: <a name=defcon98>
653: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
654: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
655: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
656: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
657: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
658: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
659: <br>
660: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
661: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
662: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
663: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 664: <p>
1.94 deraadt 665:
1.132 louis 666: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
667: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
668: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
669: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
670: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
671: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
672: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 673: <p>
674:
1.101 wvdputte 675: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 676: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
677: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 678: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 679: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
680: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
681: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
682: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
683: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
684: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
685: <br>
686: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
687: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 688: <p>
689:
1.105 wvdputte 690: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 691: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
692: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
693: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
694: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
695: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
696: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 697: <br>
1.132 louis 698: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
699: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 700:
1.132 louis 701: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 702:
1.113 deraadt 703: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 704: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
705: </strong><br>
706: Niels held a
707: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
708: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
709: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 710: <p>
1.132 louis 711:
712: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 713: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 714: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
715: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 716: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 717:
1.132 louis 718: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
719: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
720: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
721: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
722: <br>
723: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 724: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 725: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 726: <p>
727:
1.125 deraadt 728: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 729: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
730: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
731: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
732: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
733: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 734:
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