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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:
1.170 ! reinhard 29: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
! 30: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
! 31: will take place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
! 32: OpenBSD developers will be at a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
! 33:
1.168 miod 34: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
35: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
36: will take place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
37: Several OpenBSD developers and users will attend the meeting, and
38: Niels Provos will present his
39: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
40: system call policy management tool.
1.165 ian 41:
1.152 jakob 42: <hr>
43:
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1.152 jakob 52: <h2>Past events:</h2>
53: <dl>
54:
1.161 millert 55: <h3>2002</h3>
1.168 miod 56: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
57: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 58: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 59: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 60: had a chance to prove their value.
61: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 62: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 63: <p>
1.168 miod 64:
1.161 millert 65: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
66: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 67: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
68: are available.
1.161 millert 69: <p>
70:
1.163 miod 71: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
72: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
73: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
74: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
75: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
76: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
77: <p>
78:
1.164 millert 79: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
80: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
81: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
82: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
83: <p>
84:
1.152 jakob 85: <h3>2001</h3>
86:
1.160 jufi 87: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
88: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
89: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
90: <p>
91:
92: <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>
93: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
94: <p>
95:
1.158 deraadt 96: <li><strong>
97: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
98: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
99: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
100: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
101: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
102: <p>
103:
1.156 provos 104: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
105: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
106: <p>
107:
108: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
109: Jakob and Itojun were there.
110: <p>
1.158 deraadt 111:
1.150 wvdputte 112: <li><strong>
113: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
114: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 115: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
116: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
117: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 118: <p>
1.137 aaron 119:
120: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 121: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
122: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
123: </strong><br>
124: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
125: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
126: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
127: <p>
128:
129: <li><strong>
130: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
131: </strong><br>
132: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
133: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
134: <p>
135:
136: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 137: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
138: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
139: </strong><br>
140: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
141: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
142: <p>
143:
144: <li><strong>
145: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
146: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
147: </strong><br>
148: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
149: <p>
150:
151: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 152: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
153: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
154: </strong><br>
155: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
156: security community.
157: <p>
158:
159: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 160: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
161: </strong><br>
162: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
163: <p>
164:
165: <li><strong>
166: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
167: </strong><br>
168: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
169: <p>
170:
1.132 louis 171: <h3>2000</h3>
172:
173: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 174: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
175: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
176: </strong><br>
177: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
178: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
179: <p>
180:
181: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 182: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
183: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
184: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
185: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
186: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
187: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 188: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 189: <p>
190:
191: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 192: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
193: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
194: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
195: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 196: <p>
1.4 millert 197:
1.132 louis 198: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
199: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 200: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 201: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 202: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 203: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
204: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
205:
206: <ul>
1.159 miod 207: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
208: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 209: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
210: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
211: </ul>
1.4 millert 212: <p>
1.132 louis 213:
1.7 deraadt 214: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 215: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
216: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
217: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
218: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
219: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
220: mind (drinks afterwards).
221: <p>
222:
223: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 224: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 225: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
226: questions.
1.32 deraadt 227: <p>
1.1 deraadt 228:
1.132 louis 229: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
230: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
231: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 232: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
233: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 234: <p>
235:
1.132 louis 236: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
237: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
238: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
239: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
240: <ul>
241: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
242: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
243: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
244: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
245: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
246: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 247: <p>
1.132 louis 248:
1.10 provos 249: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 250: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
251: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
252: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
253: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
254: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
255: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
256: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
257: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
258: <br>
259: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
260: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
261: <p>
1.32 deraadt 262:
1.132 louis 263: <li><strong>
264: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
265: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
266: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
267: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
268: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
269: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
270: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
271: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
272: and spoke about
273: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
274: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
275: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
276: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 277: <p>
1.132 louis 278:
1.6 deraadt 279: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 280: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
281: LinuxTag 2000,
282: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
283: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
284: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
285: <br>
286: Christian Weisgerber gave a
287: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
288: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 289: <p>
1.1 deraadt 290:
1.6 deraadt 291: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 292: <a name=usenix2000>
293: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 294: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 295: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
296: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
297: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
298: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
299: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
300: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 301: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 302: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
303: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
304: <ul>
305:
306: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
307: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
308: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
309: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
310: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
311: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
312:
313: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
314: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
315: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
316: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
317: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
318: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 319:
1.132 louis 320: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
321: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
322: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
323: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 324: <p>
325:
1.132 louis 326: <li><strong>
327: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
328: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
329: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
330: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
331: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
332: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 333: <p>
1.2 deraadt 334:
1.132 louis 335: <li><strong>
336: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
337: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
338: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
339: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
340: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
341: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
342: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
343: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 344: <p>
1.11 jkatz 345:
1.17 deraadt 346: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 347: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
348: CONVERGENCE 2000.
349: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
350: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
351: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
352: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
353: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
354: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 355: <p>
1.17 deraadt 356:
1.23 niklas 357: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 358: CanSecWest.
359: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
360: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
361: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
362: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
363: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
364: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
365: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
366: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 367: <p>
1.25 deraadt 368:
1.132 louis 369: <li><strong>
370: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
371: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
372: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
373: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
374: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
375: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 376: <p>
1.23 niklas 377:
1.31 deraadt 378: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 379: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
380: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
381: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 382: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 383: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
384: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
385: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
386: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 387: <p>
1.31 deraadt 388:
1.132 louis 389: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 390: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 391: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
392: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
393: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
394: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 395: <p>
396:
1.132 louis 397: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 398:
1.132 louis 399: <li>
400: <strong>
401: The Bazaar.
402: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
403: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
404: firewalls with OpenBSD.
405: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
406: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
407: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
408: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 409: <p>
410:
1.132 louis 411: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 412: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 413: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
414: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
415: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
416: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
417: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
418: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
419: There were many other OpenBSD
420: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
421: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
422:
423: <ul>
424: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
425: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
426: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
427: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
428: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
429: </ul>
430: <p>
431:
432: <li><strong>
433: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
434: IP-dagarna 1999
435: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
436: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
437: <p>
438:
439: <li><strong>
440: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
441: Linux & Open Source Software '99
442: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
443: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
444: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
445: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
446: <p>
447:
448: <li><strong>
449: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
450: Reflections/Projections 1999
451: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
452: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
453: developers from the east coast attended as well.
454: <p>
455:
456: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
457: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
458: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
459: (in swedish)</strong><br>
460: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
461: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
462: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
463: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
464: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
465: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
466: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
467: conference in Stockholm.
468: <p>
469:
470: <li><strong>
471: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
472: AUUG'99.
473: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
474: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
475: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
476: coordinated.
477: <p>
478:
479: <li><strong>
480: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
481: Usenix Security.
482: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
483: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
484: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
485: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
486: significant security roles.
487: <p>
488:
489: <li><strong>
490: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
491: 45th IETF meeting.
492: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
493: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
494: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
495: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 496: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 497: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
498: <p>
1.45 jason 499:
1.132 louis 500: <li><strong>
501: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
502: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
503: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
504: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 505: <p>
1.132 louis 506:
1.46 deraadt 507: <a name=usenix99>
508: <li><strong>
509: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
510: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 511: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 512: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 513: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 514: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
515: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 516: June.)
1.132 louis 517: <br>
1.46 deraadt 518: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 519: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
520:
1.46 deraadt 521: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 522: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 523: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 524: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 525: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
526: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 527: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
528: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 529: <br>
1.66 deraadt 530: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 531: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 532: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 533: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
534: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
535: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 536: <br>
1.66 deraadt 537: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 538: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 539: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
540: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
541: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
542: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
543: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 544: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
545: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 546: <br>
1.66 deraadt 547: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 548: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 549: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
550: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 551: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
552: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 553: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 554: <p>
1.46 deraadt 555:
1.51 deraadt 556: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 557: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
558: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
559: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
560: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
561: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
562: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
563: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
564: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 565: <p>
566:
1.53 jakob 567: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 568: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
569: 44th IETF meeting.
570: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
571: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
572: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 573: <p>
574:
1.132 louis 575: <li><strong>
576: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
577: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
578: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
579: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
580: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
581: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 582: <p>
583:
1.132 louis 584: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 585:
1.132 louis 586: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
587: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
588: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
589: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
590: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 591: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 592: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
593: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
594: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
595: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 596: <p>
597:
1.71 niklas 598: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 599: <a name=lisaboston-98>
600: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
601: 12th Systems Administration Conference
602: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
603: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
604: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
605: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
606: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
607: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
608: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
609: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
610: <br>
611: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
612: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
613: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 614: <p>
615:
1.73 deraadt 616: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 617: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
618: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
619: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
620: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
621: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
622: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 623: <p>
1.73 deraadt 624:
1.75 mickey 625: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 626: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 627: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 628: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
629: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
630: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
631: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
632: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 633: <p>
1.73 deraadt 634:
1.80 deraadt 635: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 636: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
637: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
638: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 639: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 640: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 641: <p>
642:
1.93 louis 643: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 644: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
645: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
646: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
647: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 648: <p>
649:
1.132 louis 650: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
651: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
652: California, USA.</strong></a>
653: <br>
654: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
655: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 656: <p>
657:
1.132 louis 658: <a name=defcon98>
659: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
660: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
661: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
662: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
663: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
664: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
665: <br>
666: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
667: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
668: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
669: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 670: <p>
1.94 deraadt 671:
1.132 louis 672: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
673: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
674: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
675: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
676: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
677: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
678: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 679: <p>
680:
1.101 wvdputte 681: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 682: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
683: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 684: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 685: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
686: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
687: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
688: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
689: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
690: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
691: <br>
692: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
693: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 694: <p>
695:
1.105 wvdputte 696: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 697: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
698: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
699: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
700: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
701: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
702: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 703: <br>
1.132 louis 704: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
705: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 706:
1.132 louis 707: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 708:
1.113 deraadt 709: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 710: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
711: </strong><br>
712: Niels held a
713: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
714: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
715: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 716: <p>
1.132 louis 717:
718: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 719: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 720: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
721: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 722: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 723:
1.132 louis 724: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
725: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
726: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
727: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
728: <br>
729: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 730: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 731: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 732: <p>
733:
1.125 deraadt 734: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 735: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
736: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
737: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
738: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
739: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 740:
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