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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:
1.171 ian 30: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">
31: BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong><br>
32: takes place November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
33: OpenBSD people will be there, and Ian Darwin will give a
34: tutorial on OpenBSD firewalls.
35:
1.152 jakob 36: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 46: <h2>Past events:</h2>
47: <dl>
48:
1.161 millert 49: <h3>2002</h3>
1.172 ! miod 50: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
! 51: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
! 52: took place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
! 53: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
! 54: Niels Provos presented his
! 55: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
! 56: system call policy management tool.
! 57:
1.171 ian 58: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
59: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
60: Webb.it took place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
61: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
62: <p>
63:
1.168 miod 64: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
65: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 66: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 67: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 68: had a chance to prove their value.
69: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 70: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 71: <p>
1.168 miod 72:
1.161 millert 73: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
74: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 75: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
76: are available.
1.161 millert 77: <p>
78:
1.163 miod 79: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
80: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
81: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
82: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
83: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
84: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
85: <p>
86:
1.164 millert 87: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
88: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
89: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
90: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
91: <p>
92:
1.152 jakob 93: <h3>2001</h3>
94:
1.160 jufi 95: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
96: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
97: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
98: <p>
99:
100: <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>
101: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
102: <p>
103:
1.158 deraadt 104: <li><strong>
105: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
106: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
107: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
108: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
109: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
110: <p>
111:
1.156 provos 112: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
113: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
114: <p>
115:
116: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
117: Jakob and Itojun were there.
118: <p>
1.158 deraadt 119:
1.150 wvdputte 120: <li><strong>
121: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
122: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 123: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
124: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
125: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 126: <p>
1.137 aaron 127:
128: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 129: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
130: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
131: </strong><br>
132: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
133: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
134: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
135: <p>
136:
137: <li><strong>
138: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
139: </strong><br>
140: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
141: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
142: <p>
143:
144: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 145: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
146: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
147: </strong><br>
148: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
149: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
150: <p>
151:
152: <li><strong>
153: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
154: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
155: </strong><br>
156: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
157: <p>
158:
159: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 160: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
161: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
162: </strong><br>
163: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
164: security community.
165: <p>
166:
167: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 168: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
169: </strong><br>
170: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
171: <p>
172:
173: <li><strong>
174: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
175: </strong><br>
176: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
177: <p>
178:
1.132 louis 179: <h3>2000</h3>
180:
181: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 182: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
183: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
184: </strong><br>
185: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
186: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
187: <p>
188:
189: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 190: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
191: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
192: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
193: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
194: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
195: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 196: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 197: <p>
198:
199: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 200: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
201: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
202: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
203: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 204: <p>
1.4 millert 205:
1.132 louis 206: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
207: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 208: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 209: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 210: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 211: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
212: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
213:
214: <ul>
1.159 miod 215: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
216: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 217: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
218: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
219: </ul>
1.4 millert 220: <p>
1.132 louis 221:
1.7 deraadt 222: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 223: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
224: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
225: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
226: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
227: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
228: mind (drinks afterwards).
229: <p>
230:
231: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 232: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 233: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
234: questions.
1.32 deraadt 235: <p>
1.1 deraadt 236:
1.132 louis 237: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
238: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
239: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 240: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
241: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 242: <p>
243:
1.132 louis 244: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
245: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
246: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
247: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
248: <ul>
249: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
250: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
251: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
252: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
253: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
254: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 255: <p>
1.132 louis 256:
1.10 provos 257: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 258: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
259: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
260: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
261: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
262: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
263: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
264: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
265: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
266: <br>
267: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
268: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
269: <p>
1.32 deraadt 270:
1.132 louis 271: <li><strong>
272: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
273: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
274: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
275: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
276: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
277: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
278: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
279: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
280: and spoke about
281: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
282: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
283: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
284: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 285: <p>
1.132 louis 286:
1.6 deraadt 287: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 288: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
289: LinuxTag 2000,
290: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
291: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
292: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
293: <br>
294: Christian Weisgerber gave a
295: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
296: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 297: <p>
1.1 deraadt 298:
1.6 deraadt 299: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 300: <a name=usenix2000>
301: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 302: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 303: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
304: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
305: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
306: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
307: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
308: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 309: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 310: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
311: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
312: <ul>
313:
314: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
315: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
316: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
317: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
318: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
319: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
320:
321: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
322: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
323: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
324: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
325: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
326: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 327:
1.132 louis 328: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
329: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
330: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
331: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 332: <p>
333:
1.132 louis 334: <li><strong>
335: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
336: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
337: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
338: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
339: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
340: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 341: <p>
1.2 deraadt 342:
1.132 louis 343: <li><strong>
344: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
345: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
346: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
347: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
348: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
349: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
350: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
351: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 352: <p>
1.11 jkatz 353:
1.17 deraadt 354: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 355: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
356: CONVERGENCE 2000.
357: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
358: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
359: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
360: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
361: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
362: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 363: <p>
1.17 deraadt 364:
1.23 niklas 365: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 366: CanSecWest.
367: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
368: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
369: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
370: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
371: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
372: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
373: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
374: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 375: <p>
1.25 deraadt 376:
1.132 louis 377: <li><strong>
378: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
379: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
380: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
381: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
382: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
383: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 384: <p>
1.23 niklas 385:
1.31 deraadt 386: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 387: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
388: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
389: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 390: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 391: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
392: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
393: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
394: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 395: <p>
1.31 deraadt 396:
1.132 louis 397: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 398: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 399: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
400: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
401: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
402: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 403: <p>
404:
1.132 louis 405: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 406:
1.132 louis 407: <li>
408: <strong>
409: The Bazaar.
410: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
411: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
412: firewalls with OpenBSD.
413: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
414: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
415: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
416: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 417: <p>
418:
1.132 louis 419: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 420: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 421: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
422: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
423: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
424: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
425: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
426: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
427: There were many other OpenBSD
428: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
429: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
430:
431: <ul>
432: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
433: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
434: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
435: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
436: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
437: </ul>
438: <p>
439:
440: <li><strong>
441: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
442: IP-dagarna 1999
443: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
444: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
445: <p>
446:
447: <li><strong>
448: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
449: Linux & Open Source Software '99
450: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
451: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
452: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
453: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
454: <p>
455:
456: <li><strong>
457: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
458: Reflections/Projections 1999
459: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
460: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
461: developers from the east coast attended as well.
462: <p>
463:
464: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
465: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
466: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
467: (in swedish)</strong><br>
468: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
469: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
470: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
471: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
472: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
473: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
474: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
475: conference in Stockholm.
476: <p>
477:
478: <li><strong>
479: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
480: AUUG'99.
481: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
482: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
483: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
484: coordinated.
485: <p>
486:
487: <li><strong>
488: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
489: Usenix Security.
490: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
491: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
492: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
493: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
494: significant security roles.
495: <p>
496:
497: <li><strong>
498: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
499: 45th IETF meeting.
500: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
501: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
502: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
503: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 504: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 505: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
506: <p>
1.45 jason 507:
1.132 louis 508: <li><strong>
509: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
510: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
511: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
512: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 513: <p>
1.132 louis 514:
1.46 deraadt 515: <a name=usenix99>
516: <li><strong>
517: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
518: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 519: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 520: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 521: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 522: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
523: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 524: June.)
1.132 louis 525: <br>
1.46 deraadt 526: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 527: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
528:
1.46 deraadt 529: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 530: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 531: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 532: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 533: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
534: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 535: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
536: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 537: <br>
1.66 deraadt 538: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 539: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 540: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 541: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
542: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
543: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 544: <br>
1.66 deraadt 545: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 546: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 547: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
548: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
549: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
550: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
551: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 552: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
553: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 554: <br>
1.66 deraadt 555: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 556: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 557: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
558: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 559: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
560: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 561: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 562: <p>
1.46 deraadt 563:
1.51 deraadt 564: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 565: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
566: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
567: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
568: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
569: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
570: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
571: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
572: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 573: <p>
574:
1.53 jakob 575: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 576: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
577: 44th IETF meeting.
578: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
579: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
580: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 581: <p>
582:
1.132 louis 583: <li><strong>
584: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
585: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
586: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
587: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
588: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
589: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 590: <p>
591:
1.132 louis 592: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 593:
1.132 louis 594: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
595: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
596: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
597: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
598: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 599: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 600: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
601: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
602: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
603: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 604: <p>
605:
1.71 niklas 606: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 607: <a name=lisaboston-98>
608: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
609: 12th Systems Administration Conference
610: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
611: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
612: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
613: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
614: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
615: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
616: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
617: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
618: <br>
619: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
620: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
621: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 622: <p>
623:
1.73 deraadt 624: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 625: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
626: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
627: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
628: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
629: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
630: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 631: <p>
1.73 deraadt 632:
1.75 mickey 633: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 634: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 635: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 636: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
637: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
638: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
639: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
640: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 641: <p>
1.73 deraadt 642:
1.80 deraadt 643: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 644: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
645: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
646: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 647: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 648: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 649: <p>
650:
1.93 louis 651: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 652: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
653: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
654: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
655: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 656: <p>
657:
1.132 louis 658: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
659: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
660: California, USA.</strong></a>
661: <br>
662: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
663: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 664: <p>
665:
1.132 louis 666: <a name=defcon98>
667: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
668: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
669: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
670: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
671: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
672: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
673: <br>
674: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
675: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
676: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
677: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 678: <p>
1.94 deraadt 679:
1.132 louis 680: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
681: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
682: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
683: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
684: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
685: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
686: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 687: <p>
688:
1.101 wvdputte 689: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 690: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
691: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 692: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 693: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
694: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
695: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
696: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
697: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
698: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
699: <br>
700: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
701: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 702: <p>
703:
1.105 wvdputte 704: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 705: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
706: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
707: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
708: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
709: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
710: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 711: <br>
1.132 louis 712: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
713: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 714:
1.132 louis 715: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 716:
1.113 deraadt 717: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 718: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
719: </strong><br>
720: Niels held a
721: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
722: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
723: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 724: <p>
1.132 louis 725:
726: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 727: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 728: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
729: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 730: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 731:
1.132 louis 732: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
733: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
734: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
735: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
736: <br>
737: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 738: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 739: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 740: <p>
741:
1.125 deraadt 742: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 743: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
744: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
745: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
746: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
747: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 748:
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