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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:
1.171 ian 29: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">
30: BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong><br>
31: takes place November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1.173 ian 32: OpenBSD people will be there;
33: Philipp Buehler and Henning Brauer will speak about
34: network performance tuning on OpenBSD,
35: and Ian Darwin will present a tutorial on OpenBSD firewalls.
1.171 ian 36:
1.152 jakob 37: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 47: <h2>Past events:</h2>
48: <dl>
49:
1.161 millert 50: <h3>2002</h3>
1.177 ! jason 51:
! 52: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
! 53: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference 3-8 Nov 2002, Philadelphia, USA
! 54: </a></strong><br>
! 55: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
! 56: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
! 57: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
! 58: <p>
! 59:
1.172 miod 60: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
61: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
62: took place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
63: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
64: Niels Provos presented his
65: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
66: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 67: <p>
1.172 miod 68:
1.171 ian 69: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
70: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
71: Webb.it took place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
72: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
73: <p>
74:
1.168 miod 75: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
76: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 77: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 78: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 79: had a chance to prove their value.
80: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 81: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 82: <p>
1.168 miod 83:
1.161 millert 84: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
85: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 86: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
87: are available.
1.161 millert 88: <p>
89:
1.163 miod 90: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
91: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
92: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
93: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
94: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
95: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
96: <p>
97:
1.164 millert 98: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
99: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
100: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
101: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
102: <p>
103:
1.152 jakob 104: <h3>2001</h3>
105:
1.160 jufi 106: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
107: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
108: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
109: <p>
110:
111: <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>
112: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
113: <p>
114:
1.158 deraadt 115: <li><strong>
116: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
117: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
118: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
119: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
120: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
121: <p>
122:
1.156 provos 123: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
124: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
125: <p>
126:
127: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
128: Jakob and Itojun were there.
129: <p>
1.158 deraadt 130:
1.150 wvdputte 131: <li><strong>
132: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
133: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 134: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
135: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
136: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 137: <p>
1.137 aaron 138:
139: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 140: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
141: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
142: </strong><br>
143: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
144: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
145: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
146: <p>
147:
148: <li><strong>
149: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
150: </strong><br>
151: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
152: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
153: <p>
154:
155: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 156: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
157: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
158: </strong><br>
159: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
160: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
161: <p>
162:
163: <li><strong>
164: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
165: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
166: </strong><br>
167: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
168: <p>
169:
170: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 171: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
172: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
173: </strong><br>
174: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
175: security community.
176: <p>
177:
178: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 179: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
180: </strong><br>
181: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
182: <p>
183:
184: <li><strong>
185: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
186: </strong><br>
187: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
188: <p>
189:
1.132 louis 190: <h3>2000</h3>
191:
192: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 193: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
194: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
195: </strong><br>
196: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
197: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
198: <p>
199:
200: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 201: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
202: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
203: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
204: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
205: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
206: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 207: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 208: <p>
209:
210: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 211: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
212: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
213: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
214: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 215: <p>
1.4 millert 216:
1.132 louis 217: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
218: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 219: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 220: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 221: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 222: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
223: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
224:
225: <ul>
1.159 miod 226: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
227: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 228: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
229: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
230: </ul>
1.4 millert 231: <p>
1.132 louis 232:
1.7 deraadt 233: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 234: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
235: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
236: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
237: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
238: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
239: mind (drinks afterwards).
240: <p>
241:
242: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 243: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 244: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
245: questions.
1.32 deraadt 246: <p>
1.1 deraadt 247:
1.132 louis 248: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
249: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
250: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 251: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
252: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 253: <p>
254:
1.132 louis 255: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
256: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
257: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
258: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
259: <ul>
260: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
261: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
262: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
263: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
264: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
265: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 266: <p>
1.132 louis 267:
1.10 provos 268: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 269: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
270: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
271: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
272: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
273: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
274: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
275: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
276: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
277: <br>
278: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
279: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
280: <p>
1.32 deraadt 281:
1.132 louis 282: <li><strong>
283: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
284: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
285: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
286: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
287: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
288: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
289: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
290: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
291: and spoke about
292: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
293: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
294: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
295: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 296: <p>
1.132 louis 297:
1.6 deraadt 298: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 299: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
300: LinuxTag 2000,
301: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
302: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
303: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
304: <br>
305: Christian Weisgerber gave a
306: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
307: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 308: <p>
1.1 deraadt 309:
1.6 deraadt 310: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 311: <a name=usenix2000>
312: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 313: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 314: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
315: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
316: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
317: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
318: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
319: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 320: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 321: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
322: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
323: <ul>
324:
325: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
326: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
327: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
328: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
329: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
330: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
331:
332: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
333: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
334: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
335: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
336: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
337: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 338:
1.132 louis 339: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
340: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
341: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
342: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 343: <p>
344:
1.132 louis 345: <li><strong>
346: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
347: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
348: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
349: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
350: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
351: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 352: <p>
1.2 deraadt 353:
1.132 louis 354: <li><strong>
355: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
356: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
357: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
358: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
359: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
360: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
361: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
362: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 363: <p>
1.11 jkatz 364:
1.17 deraadt 365: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 366: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
367: CONVERGENCE 2000.
368: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
369: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
370: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
371: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
372: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
373: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 374: <p>
1.17 deraadt 375:
1.23 niklas 376: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 377: CanSecWest.
378: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
379: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
380: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
381: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
382: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
383: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
384: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
385: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 386: <p>
1.25 deraadt 387:
1.132 louis 388: <li><strong>
389: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
390: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
391: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
392: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
393: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
394: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 395: <p>
1.23 niklas 396:
1.31 deraadt 397: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 398: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
399: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
400: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 401: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 402: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
403: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
404: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
405: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 406: <p>
1.31 deraadt 407:
1.132 louis 408: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 409: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 410: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
411: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
412: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
413: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 414: <p>
415:
1.132 louis 416: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 417:
1.132 louis 418: <li>
419: <strong>
420: The Bazaar.
421: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
422: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
423: firewalls with OpenBSD.
424: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
425: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
426: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
427: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 428: <p>
429:
1.132 louis 430: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 431: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 432: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
433: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
434: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
435: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
436: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
437: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
438: There were many other OpenBSD
439: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
440: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
441:
442: <ul>
443: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
444: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
445: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
446: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
447: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
448: </ul>
449: <p>
450:
451: <li><strong>
452: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
453: IP-dagarna 1999
454: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
455: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
456: <p>
457:
458: <li><strong>
459: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
460: Linux & Open Source Software '99
461: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
462: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
463: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
464: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
465: <p>
466:
467: <li><strong>
468: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
469: Reflections/Projections 1999
470: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
471: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
472: developers from the east coast attended as well.
473: <p>
474:
475: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
476: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
477: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
478: (in swedish)</strong><br>
479: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
480: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
481: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
482: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
483: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
484: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
485: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
486: conference in Stockholm.
487: <p>
488:
489: <li><strong>
490: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
491: AUUG'99.
492: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
493: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
494: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
495: coordinated.
496: <p>
497:
498: <li><strong>
499: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
500: Usenix Security.
501: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
502: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
503: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
504: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
505: significant security roles.
506: <p>
507:
508: <li><strong>
509: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
510: 45th IETF meeting.
511: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
512: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
513: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
514: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 515: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 516: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
517: <p>
1.45 jason 518:
1.132 louis 519: <li><strong>
520: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
521: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
522: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
523: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 524: <p>
1.132 louis 525:
1.46 deraadt 526: <a name=usenix99>
527: <li><strong>
528: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
529: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 530: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 531: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 532: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 533: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
534: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 535: June.)
1.132 louis 536: <br>
1.46 deraadt 537: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 538: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
539:
1.46 deraadt 540: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 541: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 542: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 543: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 544: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
545: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 546: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
547: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 548: <br>
1.66 deraadt 549: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 550: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 551: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 552: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
553: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
554: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 555: <br>
1.66 deraadt 556: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 557: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 558: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
559: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
560: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
561: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
562: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 563: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
564: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 565: <br>
1.66 deraadt 566: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 567: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 568: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
569: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 570: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
571: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 572: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 573: <p>
1.46 deraadt 574:
1.51 deraadt 575: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 576: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
577: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
578: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
579: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
580: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
581: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
582: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
583: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 584: <p>
585:
1.53 jakob 586: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 587: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
588: 44th IETF meeting.
589: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
590: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
591: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 592: <p>
593:
1.132 louis 594: <li><strong>
595: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
596: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
597: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
598: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
599: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
600: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 601: <p>
602:
1.132 louis 603: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 604:
1.132 louis 605: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
606: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
607: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
608: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
609: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 610: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 611: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
612: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
613: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
614: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 615: <p>
616:
1.71 niklas 617: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 618: <a name=lisaboston-98>
619: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
620: 12th Systems Administration Conference
621: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
622: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
623: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
624: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
625: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
626: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
627: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
628: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
629: <br>
630: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
631: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
632: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 633: <p>
634:
1.73 deraadt 635: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 636: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
637: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
638: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
639: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
640: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
641: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 642: <p>
1.73 deraadt 643:
1.75 mickey 644: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 645: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 646: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 647: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
648: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
649: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
650: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
651: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 652: <p>
1.73 deraadt 653:
1.80 deraadt 654: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 655: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
656: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
657: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 658: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 659: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 660: <p>
661:
1.93 louis 662: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 663: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
664: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
665: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
666: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 667: <p>
668:
1.132 louis 669: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
670: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
671: California, USA.</strong></a>
672: <br>
673: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
674: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 675: <p>
676:
1.132 louis 677: <a name=defcon98>
678: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
679: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
680: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
681: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
682: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
683: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
684: <br>
685: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
686: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
687: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
688: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 689: <p>
1.94 deraadt 690:
1.132 louis 691: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
692: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
693: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
694: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
695: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
696: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
697: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 698: <p>
699:
1.101 wvdputte 700: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 701: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
702: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 703: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 704: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
705: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
706: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
707: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
708: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
709: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
710: <br>
711: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
712: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 713: <p>
714:
1.105 wvdputte 715: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 716: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
717: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
718: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
719: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
720: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
721: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 722: <br>
1.132 louis 723: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
724: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 725:
1.132 louis 726: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 727:
1.113 deraadt 728: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 729: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
730: </strong><br>
731: Niels held a
732: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
733: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
734: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 735: <p>
1.132 louis 736:
737: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 738: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 739: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
740: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 741: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 742:
1.132 louis 743: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
744: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
745: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
746: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
747: <br>
748: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 749: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 750: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 751: <p>
752:
1.125 deraadt 753: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 754: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
755: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
756: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
757: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
758: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 759:
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