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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:
1.175 ! mickey 30: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
! 31: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference 3-8 Nov 2002, Philadelphia, USA
! 32: There are OpenBSD developers here with a booth selling
! 33: <a href="32.html">3.2</a> release CDs, posters, etc.
! 34:
1.171 ian 35: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">
36: BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong><br>
37: takes place November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1.173 ian 38: OpenBSD people will be there;
39: Philipp Buehler and Henning Brauer will speak about
40: network performance tuning on OpenBSD,
41: and Ian Darwin will present a tutorial on OpenBSD firewalls.
1.171 ian 42:
1.152 jakob 43: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 53: <h2>Past events:</h2>
54: <dl>
55:
1.161 millert 56: <h3>2002</h3>
1.172 miod 57: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
58: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
59: took place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
60: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
61: Niels Provos presented his
62: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
63: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 64: <p>
1.172 miod 65:
1.171 ian 66: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
67: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
68: Webb.it took place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
69: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
70: <p>
71:
1.168 miod 72: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
73: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 74: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 75: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 76: had a chance to prove their value.
77: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 78: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 79: <p>
1.168 miod 80:
1.161 millert 81: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
82: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 83: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
84: are available.
1.161 millert 85: <p>
86:
1.163 miod 87: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
88: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
89: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
90: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
91: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
92: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
93: <p>
94:
1.164 millert 95: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
96: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
97: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
98: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
99: <p>
100:
1.152 jakob 101: <h3>2001</h3>
102:
1.160 jufi 103: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
104: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
105: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
106: <p>
107:
108: <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>
109: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
110: <p>
111:
1.158 deraadt 112: <li><strong>
113: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
114: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
115: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
116: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
117: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
118: <p>
119:
1.156 provos 120: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
121: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
122: <p>
123:
124: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
125: Jakob and Itojun were there.
126: <p>
1.158 deraadt 127:
1.150 wvdputte 128: <li><strong>
129: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
130: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 131: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
132: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
133: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 134: <p>
1.137 aaron 135:
136: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 137: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
138: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
139: </strong><br>
140: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
141: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
142: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
143: <p>
144:
145: <li><strong>
146: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
147: </strong><br>
148: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
149: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
150: <p>
151:
152: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 153: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
154: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
155: </strong><br>
156: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
157: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
158: <p>
159:
160: <li><strong>
161: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
162: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
163: </strong><br>
164: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
165: <p>
166:
167: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 168: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
169: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
170: </strong><br>
171: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
172: security community.
173: <p>
174:
175: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 176: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
177: </strong><br>
178: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
179: <p>
180:
181: <li><strong>
182: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
183: </strong><br>
184: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
185: <p>
186:
1.132 louis 187: <h3>2000</h3>
188:
189: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 190: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
191: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
192: </strong><br>
193: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
194: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
195: <p>
196:
197: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 198: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
199: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
200: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
201: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
202: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
203: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 204: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 205: <p>
206:
207: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 208: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
209: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
210: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
211: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 212: <p>
1.4 millert 213:
1.132 louis 214: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
215: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 216: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 217: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 218: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 219: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
220: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
221:
222: <ul>
1.159 miod 223: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
224: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 225: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
226: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
227: </ul>
1.4 millert 228: <p>
1.132 louis 229:
1.7 deraadt 230: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 231: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
232: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
233: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
234: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
235: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
236: mind (drinks afterwards).
237: <p>
238:
239: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 240: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 241: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
242: questions.
1.32 deraadt 243: <p>
1.1 deraadt 244:
1.132 louis 245: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
246: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
247: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 248: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
249: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 250: <p>
251:
1.132 louis 252: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
253: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
254: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
255: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
256: <ul>
257: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
258: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
259: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
260: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
261: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
262: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 263: <p>
1.132 louis 264:
1.10 provos 265: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 266: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
267: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
268: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
269: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
270: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
271: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
272: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
273: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
274: <br>
275: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
276: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
277: <p>
1.32 deraadt 278:
1.132 louis 279: <li><strong>
280: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
281: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
282: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
283: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
284: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
285: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
286: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
287: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
288: and spoke about
289: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
290: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
291: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
292: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 293: <p>
1.132 louis 294:
1.6 deraadt 295: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 296: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
297: LinuxTag 2000,
298: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
299: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
300: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
301: <br>
302: Christian Weisgerber gave a
303: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
304: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 305: <p>
1.1 deraadt 306:
1.6 deraadt 307: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 308: <a name=usenix2000>
309: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 310: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 311: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
312: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
313: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
314: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
315: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
316: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 317: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 318: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
319: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
320: <ul>
321:
322: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
323: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
324: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
325: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
326: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
327: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
328:
329: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
330: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
331: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
332: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
333: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
334: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 335:
1.132 louis 336: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
337: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
338: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
339: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 340: <p>
341:
1.132 louis 342: <li><strong>
343: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
344: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
345: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
346: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
347: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
348: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 349: <p>
1.2 deraadt 350:
1.132 louis 351: <li><strong>
352: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
353: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
354: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
355: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
356: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
357: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
358: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
359: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 360: <p>
1.11 jkatz 361:
1.17 deraadt 362: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 363: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
364: CONVERGENCE 2000.
365: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
366: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
367: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
368: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
369: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
370: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 371: <p>
1.17 deraadt 372:
1.23 niklas 373: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 374: CanSecWest.
375: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
376: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
377: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
378: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
379: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
380: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
381: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
382: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 383: <p>
1.25 deraadt 384:
1.132 louis 385: <li><strong>
386: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
387: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
388: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
389: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
390: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
391: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 392: <p>
1.23 niklas 393:
1.31 deraadt 394: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 395: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
396: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
397: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 398: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 399: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
400: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
401: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
402: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 403: <p>
1.31 deraadt 404:
1.132 louis 405: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 406: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 407: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
408: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
409: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
410: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 411: <p>
412:
1.132 louis 413: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 414:
1.132 louis 415: <li>
416: <strong>
417: The Bazaar.
418: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
419: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
420: firewalls with OpenBSD.
421: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
422: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
423: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
424: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 425: <p>
426:
1.132 louis 427: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 428: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 429: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
430: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
431: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
432: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
433: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
434: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
435: There were many other OpenBSD
436: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
437: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
438:
439: <ul>
440: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
441: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
442: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
443: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
444: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
445: </ul>
446: <p>
447:
448: <li><strong>
449: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
450: IP-dagarna 1999
451: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
452: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
453: <p>
454:
455: <li><strong>
456: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
457: Linux & Open Source Software '99
458: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
459: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
460: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
461: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
462: <p>
463:
464: <li><strong>
465: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
466: Reflections/Projections 1999
467: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
468: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
469: developers from the east coast attended as well.
470: <p>
471:
472: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
473: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
474: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
475: (in swedish)</strong><br>
476: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
477: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
478: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
479: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
480: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
481: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
482: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
483: conference in Stockholm.
484: <p>
485:
486: <li><strong>
487: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
488: AUUG'99.
489: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
490: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
491: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
492: coordinated.
493: <p>
494:
495: <li><strong>
496: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
497: Usenix Security.
498: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
499: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
500: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
501: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
502: significant security roles.
503: <p>
504:
505: <li><strong>
506: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
507: 45th IETF meeting.
508: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
509: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
510: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
511: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 512: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 513: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
514: <p>
1.45 jason 515:
1.132 louis 516: <li><strong>
517: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
518: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
519: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
520: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 521: <p>
1.132 louis 522:
1.46 deraadt 523: <a name=usenix99>
524: <li><strong>
525: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
526: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 527: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 528: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 529: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 530: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
531: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 532: June.)
1.132 louis 533: <br>
1.46 deraadt 534: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 535: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
536:
1.46 deraadt 537: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 538: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 539: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 540: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 541: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
542: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 543: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
544: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 545: <br>
1.66 deraadt 546: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 547: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 548: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 549: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
550: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
551: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 552: <br>
1.66 deraadt 553: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 554: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 555: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
556: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
557: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
558: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
559: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 560: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
561: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 562: <br>
1.66 deraadt 563: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 564: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 565: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
566: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 567: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
568: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 569: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 570: <p>
1.46 deraadt 571:
1.51 deraadt 572: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 573: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
574: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
575: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
576: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
577: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
578: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
579: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
580: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 581: <p>
582:
1.53 jakob 583: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 584: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
585: 44th IETF meeting.
586: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
587: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
588: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 589: <p>
590:
1.132 louis 591: <li><strong>
592: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
593: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
594: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
595: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
596: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
597: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 598: <p>
599:
1.132 louis 600: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 601:
1.132 louis 602: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
603: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
604: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
605: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
606: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 607: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 608: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
609: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
610: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
611: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 612: <p>
613:
1.71 niklas 614: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 615: <a name=lisaboston-98>
616: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
617: 12th Systems Administration Conference
618: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
619: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
620: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
621: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
622: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
623: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
624: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
625: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
626: <br>
627: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
628: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
629: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 630: <p>
631:
1.73 deraadt 632: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 633: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
634: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
635: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
636: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
637: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
638: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 639: <p>
1.73 deraadt 640:
1.75 mickey 641: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 642: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 643: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 644: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
645: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
646: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
647: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
648: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 649: <p>
1.73 deraadt 650:
1.80 deraadt 651: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 652: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
653: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
654: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 655: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 656: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 657: <p>
658:
1.93 louis 659: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 660: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
661: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
662: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
663: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 664: <p>
665:
1.132 louis 666: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
667: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
668: California, USA.</strong></a>
669: <br>
670: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
671: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 672: <p>
673:
1.132 louis 674: <a name=defcon98>
675: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
676: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
677: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
678: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
679: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
680: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
681: <br>
682: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
683: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
684: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
685: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 686: <p>
1.94 deraadt 687:
1.132 louis 688: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
689: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
690: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
691: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
692: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
693: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
694: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 695: <p>
696:
1.101 wvdputte 697: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 698: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
699: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 700: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 701: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
702: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
703: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
704: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
705: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
706: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
707: <br>
708: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
709: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 710: <p>
711:
1.105 wvdputte 712: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 713: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
714: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
715: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
716: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
717: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
718: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 719: <br>
1.132 louis 720: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
721: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 722:
1.132 louis 723: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 724:
1.113 deraadt 725: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 726: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
727: </strong><br>
728: Niels held a
729: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
730: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
731: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 732: <p>
1.132 louis 733:
734: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 735: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 736: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
737: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 738: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 739:
1.132 louis 740: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
741: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
742: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
743: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
744: <br>
745: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 746: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 747: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 748: <p>
749:
1.125 deraadt 750: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 751: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
752: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
753: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
754: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
755: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 756:
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