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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>
1.169 ! horacio 53: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 54: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 ! horacio 55: had a chance to prove their value.
! 56: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 57: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 ! horacio 58: <p>
1.168 miod 59:
1.161 millert 60: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
61: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 62: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
63: are available.
1.161 millert 64: <p>
65:
1.163 miod 66: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
67: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
68: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
69: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
70: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
71: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
72: <p>
73:
1.164 millert 74: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
75: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
76: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
77: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
78: <p>
79:
1.152 jakob 80: <h3>2001</h3>
81:
1.160 jufi 82: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
83: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
84: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
85: <p>
86:
87: <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>
88: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
89: <p>
90:
1.158 deraadt 91: <li><strong>
92: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
93: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
94: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
95: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
96: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
97: <p>
98:
1.156 provos 99: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
100: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
101: <p>
102:
103: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
104: Jakob and Itojun were there.
105: <p>
1.158 deraadt 106:
1.150 wvdputte 107: <li><strong>
108: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
109: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 110: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
111: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
112: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 113: <p>
1.137 aaron 114:
115: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 116: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
117: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
118: </strong><br>
119: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
120: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
121: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
122: <p>
123:
124: <li><strong>
125: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
126: </strong><br>
127: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
128: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
129: <p>
130:
131: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 132: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
133: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
134: </strong><br>
135: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
136: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
137: <p>
138:
139: <li><strong>
140: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
141: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
142: </strong><br>
143: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
144: <p>
145:
146: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 147: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
148: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
149: </strong><br>
150: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
151: security community.
152: <p>
153:
154: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 155: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
156: </strong><br>
157: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
158: <p>
159:
160: <li><strong>
161: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
162: </strong><br>
163: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
164: <p>
165:
1.132 louis 166: <h3>2000</h3>
167:
168: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 169: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
170: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
171: </strong><br>
172: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
173: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
174: <p>
175:
176: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 177: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
178: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
179: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
180: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
181: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
182: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 183: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 184: <p>
185:
186: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 187: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
188: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
189: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
190: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 191: <p>
1.4 millert 192:
1.132 louis 193: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
194: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 195: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 196: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 197: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 198: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
199: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
200:
201: <ul>
1.159 miod 202: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
203: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 204: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
205: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
206: </ul>
1.4 millert 207: <p>
1.132 louis 208:
1.7 deraadt 209: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 210: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
211: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
212: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
213: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
214: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
215: mind (drinks afterwards).
216: <p>
217:
218: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 219: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 220: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
221: questions.
1.32 deraadt 222: <p>
1.1 deraadt 223:
1.132 louis 224: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
225: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
226: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 227: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
228: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 229: <p>
230:
1.132 louis 231: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
232: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
233: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
234: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
235: <ul>
236: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
237: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
238: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
239: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
240: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
241: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 242: <p>
1.132 louis 243:
1.10 provos 244: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 245: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
246: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
247: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
248: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
249: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
250: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
251: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
252: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
253: <br>
254: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
255: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
256: <p>
1.32 deraadt 257:
1.132 louis 258: <li><strong>
259: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
260: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
261: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
262: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
263: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
264: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
265: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
266: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
267: and spoke about
268: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
269: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
270: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
271: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 272: <p>
1.132 louis 273:
1.6 deraadt 274: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 275: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
276: LinuxTag 2000,
277: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
278: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
279: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
280: <br>
281: Christian Weisgerber gave a
282: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
283: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 284: <p>
1.1 deraadt 285:
1.6 deraadt 286: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 287: <a name=usenix2000>
288: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 289: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 290: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
291: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
292: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
293: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
294: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
295: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 296: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 297: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
298: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
299: <ul>
300:
301: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
302: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
303: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
304: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
305: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
306: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
307:
308: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
309: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
310: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
311: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
312: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
313: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 314:
1.132 louis 315: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
316: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
317: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
318: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 319: <p>
320:
1.132 louis 321: <li><strong>
322: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
323: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
324: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
325: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
326: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
327: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 328: <p>
1.2 deraadt 329:
1.132 louis 330: <li><strong>
331: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
332: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
333: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
334: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
335: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
336: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
337: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
338: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 339: <p>
1.11 jkatz 340:
1.17 deraadt 341: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 342: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
343: CONVERGENCE 2000.
344: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
345: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
346: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
347: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
348: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
349: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 350: <p>
1.17 deraadt 351:
1.23 niklas 352: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 353: CanSecWest.
354: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
355: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
356: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
357: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
358: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
359: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
360: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
361: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 362: <p>
1.25 deraadt 363:
1.132 louis 364: <li><strong>
365: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
366: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
367: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
368: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
369: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
370: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 371: <p>
1.23 niklas 372:
1.31 deraadt 373: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 374: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
375: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
376: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 377: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 378: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
379: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
380: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
381: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 382: <p>
1.31 deraadt 383:
1.132 louis 384: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 385: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 386: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
387: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
388: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
389: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 390: <p>
391:
1.132 louis 392: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 393:
1.132 louis 394: <li>
395: <strong>
396: The Bazaar.
397: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
398: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
399: firewalls with OpenBSD.
400: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
401: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
402: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
403: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 404: <p>
405:
1.132 louis 406: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 407: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 408: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
409: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
410: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
411: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
412: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
413: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
414: There were many other OpenBSD
415: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
416: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
417:
418: <ul>
419: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
420: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
421: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
422: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
423: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
424: </ul>
425: <p>
426:
427: <li><strong>
428: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
429: IP-dagarna 1999
430: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
431: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
432: <p>
433:
434: <li><strong>
435: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
436: Linux & Open Source Software '99
437: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
438: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
439: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
440: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
441: <p>
442:
443: <li><strong>
444: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
445: Reflections/Projections 1999
446: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
447: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
448: developers from the east coast attended as well.
449: <p>
450:
451: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
452: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
453: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
454: (in swedish)</strong><br>
455: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
456: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
457: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
458: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
459: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
460: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
461: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
462: conference in Stockholm.
463: <p>
464:
465: <li><strong>
466: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
467: AUUG'99.
468: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
469: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
470: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
471: coordinated.
472: <p>
473:
474: <li><strong>
475: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
476: Usenix Security.
477: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
478: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
479: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
480: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
481: significant security roles.
482: <p>
483:
484: <li><strong>
485: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
486: 45th IETF meeting.
487: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
488: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
489: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
490: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 491: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 492: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
493: <p>
1.45 jason 494:
1.132 louis 495: <li><strong>
496: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
497: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
498: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
499: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 500: <p>
1.132 louis 501:
1.46 deraadt 502: <a name=usenix99>
503: <li><strong>
504: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
505: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 506: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 507: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 508: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 509: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
510: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 511: June.)
1.132 louis 512: <br>
1.46 deraadt 513: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 514: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
515:
1.46 deraadt 516: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 517: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 518: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 519: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 520: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
521: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 522: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
523: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 524: <br>
1.66 deraadt 525: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 526: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 527: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 528: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
529: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
530: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 531: <br>
1.66 deraadt 532: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 533: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 534: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
535: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
536: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
537: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
538: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 539: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
540: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 541: <br>
1.66 deraadt 542: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 543: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 544: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
545: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 546: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
547: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 548: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 549: <p>
1.46 deraadt 550:
1.51 deraadt 551: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 552: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
553: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
554: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
555: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
556: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
557: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
558: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
559: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 560: <p>
561:
1.53 jakob 562: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 563: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
564: 44th IETF meeting.
565: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
566: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
567: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 568: <p>
569:
1.132 louis 570: <li><strong>
571: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
572: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
573: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
574: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
575: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
576: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 577: <p>
578:
1.132 louis 579: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 580:
1.132 louis 581: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
582: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
583: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
584: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
585: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 586: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 587: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
588: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
589: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
590: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 591: <p>
592:
1.71 niklas 593: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 594: <a name=lisaboston-98>
595: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
596: 12th Systems Administration Conference
597: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
598: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
599: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
600: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
601: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
602: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
603: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
604: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
605: <br>
606: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
607: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
608: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 609: <p>
610:
1.73 deraadt 611: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 612: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
613: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
614: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
615: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
616: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
617: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 618: <p>
1.73 deraadt 619:
1.75 mickey 620: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 621: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 622: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 623: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
624: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
625: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
626: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
627: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 628: <p>
1.73 deraadt 629:
1.80 deraadt 630: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 631: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
632: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
633: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 634: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 635: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 636: <p>
637:
1.93 louis 638: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 639: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
640: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
641: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
642: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 643: <p>
644:
1.132 louis 645: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
646: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
647: California, USA.</strong></a>
648: <br>
649: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
650: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 651: <p>
652:
1.132 louis 653: <a name=defcon98>
654: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
655: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
656: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
657: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
658: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
659: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
660: <br>
661: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
662: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
663: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
664: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 665: <p>
1.94 deraadt 666:
1.132 louis 667: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
668: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
669: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
670: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
671: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
672: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
673: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 674: <p>
675:
1.101 wvdputte 676: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 677: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
678: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 679: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 680: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
681: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
682: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
683: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
684: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
685: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
686: <br>
687: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
688: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 689: <p>
690:
1.105 wvdputte 691: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 692: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
693: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
694: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
695: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
696: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
697: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 698: <br>
1.132 louis 699: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
700: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 701:
1.132 louis 702: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 703:
1.113 deraadt 704: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 705: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
706: </strong><br>
707: Niels held a
708: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
709: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
710: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 711: <p>
1.132 louis 712:
713: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 714: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 715: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
716: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 717: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 718:
1.132 louis 719: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
720: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
721: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
722: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
723: <br>
724: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 725: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 726: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 727: <p>
728:
1.125 deraadt 729: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 730: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
731: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
732: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
733: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
734: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 735:
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