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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
1.176 ! fgsch 32: </a></strong><br>
1.175 mickey 33: There are OpenBSD developers here with a booth selling
34: <a href="32.html">3.2</a> release CDs, posters, etc.
1.176 ! fgsch 35: <p>
1.175 mickey 36:
1.171 ian 37: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">
38: BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong><br>
39: takes place November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1.173 ian 40: OpenBSD people will be there;
41: Philipp Buehler and Henning Brauer will speak about
42: network performance tuning on OpenBSD,
43: and Ian Darwin will present a tutorial on OpenBSD firewalls.
1.171 ian 44:
1.152 jakob 45: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 55: <h2>Past events:</h2>
56: <dl>
57:
1.161 millert 58: <h3>2002</h3>
1.172 miod 59: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
60: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
61: took place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
62: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
63: Niels Provos presented his
64: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
65: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 66: <p>
1.172 miod 67:
1.171 ian 68: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
69: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
70: Webb.it took place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
71: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
72: <p>
73:
1.168 miod 74: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
75: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 76: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 77: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 78: had a chance to prove their value.
79: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 80: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 81: <p>
1.168 miod 82:
1.161 millert 83: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
84: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 85: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
86: are available.
1.161 millert 87: <p>
88:
1.163 miod 89: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
90: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
91: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
92: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
93: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
94: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
95: <p>
96:
1.164 millert 97: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
98: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
99: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
100: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
101: <p>
102:
1.152 jakob 103: <h3>2001</h3>
104:
1.160 jufi 105: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
106: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
107: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
108: <p>
109:
110: <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>
111: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
112: <p>
113:
1.158 deraadt 114: <li><strong>
115: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
116: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
117: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
118: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
119: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
120: <p>
121:
1.156 provos 122: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
123: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
124: <p>
125:
126: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
127: Jakob and Itojun were there.
128: <p>
1.158 deraadt 129:
1.150 wvdputte 130: <li><strong>
131: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
132: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 133: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
134: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
135: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 136: <p>
1.137 aaron 137:
138: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 139: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
140: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
141: </strong><br>
142: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
143: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
144: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
145: <p>
146:
147: <li><strong>
148: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
149: </strong><br>
150: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
151: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
152: <p>
153:
154: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 155: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
156: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
157: </strong><br>
158: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
159: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
160: <p>
161:
162: <li><strong>
163: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
164: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
165: </strong><br>
166: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
167: <p>
168:
169: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 170: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
171: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
172: </strong><br>
173: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
174: security community.
175: <p>
176:
177: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 178: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
179: </strong><br>
180: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
181: <p>
182:
183: <li><strong>
184: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
185: </strong><br>
186: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
187: <p>
188:
1.132 louis 189: <h3>2000</h3>
190:
191: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 192: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
193: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
194: </strong><br>
195: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
196: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
197: <p>
198:
199: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 200: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
201: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
202: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
203: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
204: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
205: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 206: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 207: <p>
208:
209: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 210: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
211: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
212: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
213: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 214: <p>
1.4 millert 215:
1.132 louis 216: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
217: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 218: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 219: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 220: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 221: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
222: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
223:
224: <ul>
1.159 miod 225: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
226: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 227: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
228: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
229: </ul>
1.4 millert 230: <p>
1.132 louis 231:
1.7 deraadt 232: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 233: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
234: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
235: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
236: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
237: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
238: mind (drinks afterwards).
239: <p>
240:
241: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 242: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 243: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
244: questions.
1.32 deraadt 245: <p>
1.1 deraadt 246:
1.132 louis 247: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
248: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
249: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 250: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
251: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 252: <p>
253:
1.132 louis 254: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
255: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
256: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
257: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
258: <ul>
259: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
260: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
261: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
262: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
263: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
264: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 265: <p>
1.132 louis 266:
1.10 provos 267: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 268: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
269: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
270: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
271: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
272: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
273: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
274: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
275: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
276: <br>
277: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
278: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
279: <p>
1.32 deraadt 280:
1.132 louis 281: <li><strong>
282: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
283: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
284: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
285: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
286: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
287: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
288: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
289: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
290: and spoke about
291: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
292: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
293: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
294: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 295: <p>
1.132 louis 296:
1.6 deraadt 297: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 298: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
299: LinuxTag 2000,
300: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
301: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
302: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
303: <br>
304: Christian Weisgerber gave a
305: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
306: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 307: <p>
1.1 deraadt 308:
1.6 deraadt 309: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 310: <a name=usenix2000>
311: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 312: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 313: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
314: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
315: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
316: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
317: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
318: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 319: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 320: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
321: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
322: <ul>
323:
324: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
325: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
326: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
327: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
328: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
329: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
330:
331: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
332: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
333: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
334: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
335: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
336: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 337:
1.132 louis 338: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
339: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
340: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
341: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 342: <p>
343:
1.132 louis 344: <li><strong>
345: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
346: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
347: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
348: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
349: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
350: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 351: <p>
1.2 deraadt 352:
1.132 louis 353: <li><strong>
354: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
355: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
356: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
357: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
358: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
359: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
360: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
361: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 362: <p>
1.11 jkatz 363:
1.17 deraadt 364: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 365: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
366: CONVERGENCE 2000.
367: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
368: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
369: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
370: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
371: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
372: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 373: <p>
1.17 deraadt 374:
1.23 niklas 375: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 376: CanSecWest.
377: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
378: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
379: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
380: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
381: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
382: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
383: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
384: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 385: <p>
1.25 deraadt 386:
1.132 louis 387: <li><strong>
388: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
389: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
390: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
391: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
392: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
393: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 394: <p>
1.23 niklas 395:
1.31 deraadt 396: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 397: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
398: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
399: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 400: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 401: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
402: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
403: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
404: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 405: <p>
1.31 deraadt 406:
1.132 louis 407: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 408: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 409: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
410: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
411: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
412: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 413: <p>
414:
1.132 louis 415: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 416:
1.132 louis 417: <li>
418: <strong>
419: The Bazaar.
420: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
421: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
422: firewalls with OpenBSD.
423: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
424: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
425: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
426: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 427: <p>
428:
1.132 louis 429: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 430: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 431: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
432: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
433: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
434: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
435: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
436: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
437: There were many other OpenBSD
438: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
439: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
440:
441: <ul>
442: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
443: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
444: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
445: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
446: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
447: </ul>
448: <p>
449:
450: <li><strong>
451: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
452: IP-dagarna 1999
453: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
454: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
455: <p>
456:
457: <li><strong>
458: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
459: Linux & Open Source Software '99
460: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
461: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
462: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
463: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
464: <p>
465:
466: <li><strong>
467: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
468: Reflections/Projections 1999
469: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
470: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
471: developers from the east coast attended as well.
472: <p>
473:
474: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
475: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
476: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
477: (in swedish)</strong><br>
478: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
479: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
480: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
481: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
482: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
483: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
484: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
485: conference in Stockholm.
486: <p>
487:
488: <li><strong>
489: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
490: AUUG'99.
491: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
492: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
493: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
494: coordinated.
495: <p>
496:
497: <li><strong>
498: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
499: Usenix Security.
500: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
501: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
502: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
503: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
504: significant security roles.
505: <p>
506:
507: <li><strong>
508: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
509: 45th IETF meeting.
510: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
511: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
512: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
513: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 514: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 515: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
516: <p>
1.45 jason 517:
1.132 louis 518: <li><strong>
519: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
520: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
521: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
522: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 523: <p>
1.132 louis 524:
1.46 deraadt 525: <a name=usenix99>
526: <li><strong>
527: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
528: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 529: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 530: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 531: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 532: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
533: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 534: June.)
1.132 louis 535: <br>
1.46 deraadt 536: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 537: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
538:
1.46 deraadt 539: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 540: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 541: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 542: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 543: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
544: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 545: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
546: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 547: <br>
1.66 deraadt 548: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 549: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 550: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 551: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
552: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
553: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 554: <br>
1.66 deraadt 555: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 556: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 557: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
558: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
559: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
560: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
561: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 562: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
563: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 564: <br>
1.66 deraadt 565: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 566: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 567: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
568: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 569: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
570: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 571: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 572: <p>
1.46 deraadt 573:
1.51 deraadt 574: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 575: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
576: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
577: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
578: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
579: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
580: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
581: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
582: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 583: <p>
584:
1.53 jakob 585: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 586: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
587: 44th IETF meeting.
588: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
589: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
590: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 591: <p>
592:
1.132 louis 593: <li><strong>
594: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
595: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
596: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
597: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
598: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
599: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 600: <p>
601:
1.132 louis 602: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 603:
1.132 louis 604: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
605: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
606: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
607: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
608: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 609: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 610: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
611: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
612: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
613: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 614: <p>
615:
1.71 niklas 616: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 617: <a name=lisaboston-98>
618: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
619: 12th Systems Administration Conference
620: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
621: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
622: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
623: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
624: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
625: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
626: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
627: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
628: <br>
629: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
630: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
631: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 632: <p>
633:
1.73 deraadt 634: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 635: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
636: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
637: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
638: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
639: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
640: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 641: <p>
1.73 deraadt 642:
1.75 mickey 643: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 644: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 645: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 646: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
647: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
648: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
649: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
650: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 651: <p>
1.73 deraadt 652:
1.80 deraadt 653: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 654: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
655: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
656: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 657: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 658: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 659: <p>
660:
1.93 louis 661: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 662: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
663: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
664: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
665: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 666: <p>
667:
1.132 louis 668: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
669: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
670: California, USA.</strong></a>
671: <br>
672: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
673: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 674: <p>
675:
1.132 louis 676: <a name=defcon98>
677: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
678: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
679: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
680: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
681: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
682: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
683: <br>
684: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
685: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
686: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
687: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 688: <p>
1.94 deraadt 689:
1.132 louis 690: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
691: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
692: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
693: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
694: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
695: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
696: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 697: <p>
698:
1.101 wvdputte 699: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 700: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
701: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 702: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 703: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
704: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
705: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
706: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
707: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
708: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
709: <br>
710: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
711: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 712: <p>
713:
1.105 wvdputte 714: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 715: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
716: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
717: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
718: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
719: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
720: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 721: <br>
1.132 louis 722: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
723: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 724:
1.132 louis 725: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 726:
1.113 deraadt 727: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 728: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
729: </strong><br>
730: Niels held a
731: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
732: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
733: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 734: <p>
1.132 louis 735:
736: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 737: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 738: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
739: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 740: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 741:
1.132 louis 742: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
743: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
744: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
745: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
746: <br>
747: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 748: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 749: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 750: <p>
751:
1.125 deraadt 752: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 753: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
754: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
755: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
756: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
757: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 758:
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