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