Annotation of www/events.html, Revision 1.173
1.1 deraadt 1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML Strict//EN">
2: <html>
3: <head>
4: <title>OpenBSD events</title>
5: <link rev=made href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>
6: <meta name="resource-type" content="document">
7: <meta name="distribution" content="global">
1.160 jufi 8: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1996-2002 by OpenBSD.">
1.1 deraadt 9: </head>
10:
11: <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#23238E">
12:
1.167 jsyn 13: <a href="index.html"><img alt="[OpenBSD]" height="30" width="141" src="images/smalltitle.gif" border="0"></a>
1.1 deraadt 14: <p>
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:
1.59 deraadt 25: <dl>
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.
1.173 ! ian 33: OpenBSD people will be there;
! 34: Philipp Buehler and Henning Brauer will speak about
! 35: network performance tuning on OpenBSD,
! 36: and Ian Darwin will present a tutorial on OpenBSD firewalls.
1.171 ian 37:
1.152 jakob 38: <hr>
39:
1.59 deraadt 40: </dl>
41:
1.132 louis 42: <!-- STYLE NOTES:
43: Place past events in most-recent-first order.
44: Make sure you change the tense from future to past when you move an item.
1.142 ian 45: Use <br> tags instead of <p> to avoid gaps within an item.
1.132 louis 46: -->
47:
1.152 jakob 48: <h2>Past events:</h2>
49: <dl>
50:
1.161 millert 51: <h3>2002</h3>
1.172 miod 52: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
53: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
54: took place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
55: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
56: Niels Provos presented his
57: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
58: system call policy management tool.
59:
1.171 ian 60: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
61: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
62: Webb.it took place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
63: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
64: <p>
65:
1.168 miod 66: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
67: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 68: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 69: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 70: had a chance to prove their value.
71: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 72: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 73: <p>
1.168 miod 74:
1.161 millert 75: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
76: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 77: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
78: are available.
1.161 millert 79: <p>
80:
1.163 miod 81: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
82: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
83: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
84: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
85: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
86: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
87: <p>
88:
1.164 millert 89: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
90: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
91: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
92: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
93: <p>
94:
1.152 jakob 95: <h3>2001</h3>
96:
1.160 jufi 97: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
98: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
99: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
100: <p>
101:
102: <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>
103: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
104: <p>
105:
1.158 deraadt 106: <li><strong>
107: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
108: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
109: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
110: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
111: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
112: <p>
113:
1.156 provos 114: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
115: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
116: <p>
117:
118: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
119: Jakob and Itojun were there.
120: <p>
1.158 deraadt 121:
1.150 wvdputte 122: <li><strong>
123: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
124: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 125: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
126: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
127: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 128: <p>
1.137 aaron 129:
130: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 131: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
132: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
133: </strong><br>
134: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
135: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
136: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
137: <p>
138:
139: <li><strong>
140: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
141: </strong><br>
142: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
143: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
144: <p>
145:
146: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 147: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
148: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
149: </strong><br>
150: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
151: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
152: <p>
153:
154: <li><strong>
155: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
156: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
157: </strong><br>
158: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
159: <p>
160:
161: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 162: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
163: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
164: </strong><br>
165: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
166: security community.
167: <p>
168:
169: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 170: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
171: </strong><br>
172: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
173: <p>
174:
175: <li><strong>
176: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
177: </strong><br>
178: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
179: <p>
180:
1.132 louis 181: <h3>2000</h3>
182:
183: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 184: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
185: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
186: </strong><br>
187: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
188: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
189: <p>
190:
191: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 192: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
193: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
194: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
195: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
196: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
197: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 198: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 199: <p>
200:
201: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 202: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
203: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
204: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
205: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 206: <p>
1.4 millert 207:
1.132 louis 208: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
209: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 210: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 211: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 212: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 213: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
214: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
215:
216: <ul>
1.159 miod 217: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
218: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 219: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
220: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
221: </ul>
1.4 millert 222: <p>
1.132 louis 223:
1.7 deraadt 224: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 225: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
226: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
227: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
228: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
229: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
230: mind (drinks afterwards).
231: <p>
232:
233: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 234: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 235: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
236: questions.
1.32 deraadt 237: <p>
1.1 deraadt 238:
1.132 louis 239: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
240: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
241: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 242: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
243: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 244: <p>
245:
1.132 louis 246: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
247: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
248: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
249: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
250: <ul>
251: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
252: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
253: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
254: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
255: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
256: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 257: <p>
1.132 louis 258:
1.10 provos 259: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 260: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
261: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
262: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
263: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
264: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
265: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
266: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
267: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
268: <br>
269: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
270: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
271: <p>
1.32 deraadt 272:
1.132 louis 273: <li><strong>
274: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
275: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
276: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
277: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
278: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
279: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
280: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
281: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
282: and spoke about
283: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
284: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
285: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
286: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 287: <p>
1.132 louis 288:
1.6 deraadt 289: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 290: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
291: LinuxTag 2000,
292: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
293: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
294: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
295: <br>
296: Christian Weisgerber gave a
297: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
298: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 299: <p>
1.1 deraadt 300:
1.6 deraadt 301: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 302: <a name=usenix2000>
303: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 304: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 305: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
306: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
307: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
308: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
309: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
310: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 311: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 312: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
313: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
314: <ul>
315:
316: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
317: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
318: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
319: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
320: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
321: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
322:
323: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
324: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
325: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
326: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
327: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
328: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 329:
1.132 louis 330: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
331: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
332: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
333: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 334: <p>
335:
1.132 louis 336: <li><strong>
337: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
338: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
339: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
340: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
341: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
342: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 343: <p>
1.2 deraadt 344:
1.132 louis 345: <li><strong>
346: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
347: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
348: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
349: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
350: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
351: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
352: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
353: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 354: <p>
1.11 jkatz 355:
1.17 deraadt 356: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 357: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
358: CONVERGENCE 2000.
359: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
360: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
361: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
362: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
363: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
364: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 365: <p>
1.17 deraadt 366:
1.23 niklas 367: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 368: CanSecWest.
369: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
370: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
371: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
372: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
373: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
374: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
375: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
376: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 377: <p>
1.25 deraadt 378:
1.132 louis 379: <li><strong>
380: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
381: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
382: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
383: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
384: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
385: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 386: <p>
1.23 niklas 387:
1.31 deraadt 388: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 389: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
390: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
391: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 392: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 393: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
394: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
395: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
396: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 397: <p>
1.31 deraadt 398:
1.132 louis 399: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 400: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 401: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
402: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
403: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
404: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 405: <p>
406:
1.132 louis 407: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 408:
1.132 louis 409: <li>
410: <strong>
411: The Bazaar.
412: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
413: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
414: firewalls with OpenBSD.
415: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
416: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
417: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
418: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 419: <p>
420:
1.132 louis 421: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 422: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 423: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
424: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
425: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
426: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
427: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
428: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
429: There were many other OpenBSD
430: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
431: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
432:
433: <ul>
434: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
435: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
436: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
437: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
438: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
439: </ul>
440: <p>
441:
442: <li><strong>
443: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
444: IP-dagarna 1999
445: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
446: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
447: <p>
448:
449: <li><strong>
450: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
451: Linux & Open Source Software '99
452: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
453: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
454: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
455: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
456: <p>
457:
458: <li><strong>
459: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
460: Reflections/Projections 1999
461: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
462: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
463: developers from the east coast attended as well.
464: <p>
465:
466: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
467: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
468: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
469: (in swedish)</strong><br>
470: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
471: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
472: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
473: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
474: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
475: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
476: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
477: conference in Stockholm.
478: <p>
479:
480: <li><strong>
481: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
482: AUUG'99.
483: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
484: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
485: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
486: coordinated.
487: <p>
488:
489: <li><strong>
490: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
491: Usenix Security.
492: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
493: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
494: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
495: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
496: significant security roles.
497: <p>
498:
499: <li><strong>
500: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
501: 45th IETF meeting.
502: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
503: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
504: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
505: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 506: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 507: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
508: <p>
1.45 jason 509:
1.132 louis 510: <li><strong>
511: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
512: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
513: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
514: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 515: <p>
1.132 louis 516:
1.46 deraadt 517: <a name=usenix99>
518: <li><strong>
519: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
520: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 521: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 522: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 523: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 524: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
525: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 526: June.)
1.132 louis 527: <br>
1.46 deraadt 528: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 529: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
530:
1.46 deraadt 531: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 532: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 533: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 534: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 535: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
536: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 537: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
538: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 539: <br>
1.66 deraadt 540: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 541: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 542: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 543: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
544: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
545: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 546: <br>
1.66 deraadt 547: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 548: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 549: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
550: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
551: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
552: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
553: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 554: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
555: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 556: <br>
1.66 deraadt 557: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 558: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 559: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
560: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 561: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
562: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 563: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 564: <p>
1.46 deraadt 565:
1.51 deraadt 566: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 567: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
568: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
569: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
570: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
571: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
572: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
573: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
574: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 575: <p>
576:
1.53 jakob 577: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 578: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
579: 44th IETF meeting.
580: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
581: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
582: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 583: <p>
584:
1.132 louis 585: <li><strong>
586: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
587: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
588: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
589: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
590: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
591: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 592: <p>
593:
1.132 louis 594: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 595:
1.132 louis 596: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
597: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
598: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
599: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
600: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 601: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 602: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
603: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
604: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
605: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 606: <p>
607:
1.71 niklas 608: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 609: <a name=lisaboston-98>
610: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
611: 12th Systems Administration Conference
612: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
613: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
614: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
615: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
616: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
617: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
618: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
619: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
620: <br>
621: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
622: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
623: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 624: <p>
625:
1.73 deraadt 626: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 627: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
628: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
629: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
630: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
631: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
632: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 633: <p>
1.73 deraadt 634:
1.75 mickey 635: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 636: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 637: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 638: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
639: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
640: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
641: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
642: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 643: <p>
1.73 deraadt 644:
1.80 deraadt 645: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 646: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
647: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
648: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 649: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 650: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 651: <p>
652:
1.93 louis 653: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 654: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
655: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
656: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
657: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 658: <p>
659:
1.132 louis 660: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
661: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
662: California, USA.</strong></a>
663: <br>
664: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
665: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 666: <p>
667:
1.132 louis 668: <a name=defcon98>
669: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
670: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
671: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
672: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
673: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
674: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
675: <br>
676: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
677: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
678: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
679: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 680: <p>
1.94 deraadt 681:
1.132 louis 682: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
683: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
684: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
685: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
686: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
687: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
688: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 689: <p>
690:
1.101 wvdputte 691: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 692: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
693: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 694: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 695: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
696: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
697: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
698: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
699: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
700: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
701: <br>
702: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
703: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 704: <p>
705:
1.105 wvdputte 706: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 707: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
708: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
709: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
710: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
711: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
712: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 713: <br>
1.132 louis 714: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
715: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 716:
1.132 louis 717: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 718:
1.113 deraadt 719: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 720: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
721: </strong><br>
722: Niels held a
723: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
724: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
725: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 726: <p>
1.132 louis 727:
728: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 729: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 730: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
731: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 732: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 733:
1.132 louis 734: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
735: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
736: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
737: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
738: <br>
739: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 740: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 741: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 742: <p>
743:
1.125 deraadt 744: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 745: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
746: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
747: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
748: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
749: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 750:
1.59 deraadt 751: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 752:
753: <hr>
754: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
755: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
1.173 ! ian 756: <br><small>$OpenBSD: events.html,v 1.172 2002/07/14 20:50:54 miod Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 757:
758: </body>
759: </html>
![[BACK]](/icons/back.gif){kind=icon}
Return to events.html CVS log ![[TXT]](/icons/text.gif){kind=icon}
![[DIR]](/icons/dir.gif){kind=icon}
Up to [local] / www