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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:
1.152 jakob 30: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 40: <h2>Past events:</h2>
41: <dl>
42:
1.161 millert 43: <h3>2002</h3>
1.177 jason 44:
1.178 ! pb 45: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">
! 46: BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong><br>
! 47: takes place November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
! 48: OpenBSD people will be there;
! 49: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer will speak about
! 50: network performance tuning on OpenBSD,
! 51: and Ian Darwin will present a tutorial on OpenBSD firewalls.
! 52: <p>
! 53:
1.177 jason 54: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
55: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference 3-8 Nov 2002, Philadelphia, USA
56: </a></strong><br>
57: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
58: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
59: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
60: <p>
61:
1.172 miod 62: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
63: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
64: took place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
65: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
66: Niels Provos presented his
67: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
68: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 69: <p>
1.172 miod 70:
1.171 ian 71: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
72: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
73: Webb.it took place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
74: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
75: <p>
76:
1.168 miod 77: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
78: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 79: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 80: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 81: had a chance to prove their value.
82: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 83: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 84: <p>
1.168 miod 85:
1.161 millert 86: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
87: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 88: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
89: are available.
1.161 millert 90: <p>
91:
1.163 miod 92: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
93: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
94: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
95: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
96: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
97: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
98: <p>
99:
1.164 millert 100: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
101: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
102: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
103: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
104: <p>
105:
1.152 jakob 106: <h3>2001</h3>
107:
1.160 jufi 108: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
109: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
110: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
111: <p>
112:
113: <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>
114: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
115: <p>
116:
1.158 deraadt 117: <li><strong>
118: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
119: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
120: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
121: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
122: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
123: <p>
124:
1.156 provos 125: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
126: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
127: <p>
128:
129: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
130: Jakob and Itojun were there.
131: <p>
1.158 deraadt 132:
1.150 wvdputte 133: <li><strong>
134: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
135: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 136: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
137: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
138: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 139: <p>
1.137 aaron 140:
141: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 142: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
143: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
144: </strong><br>
145: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
146: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
147: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
148: <p>
149:
150: <li><strong>
151: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
152: </strong><br>
153: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
154: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
155: <p>
156:
157: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 158: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
159: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
160: </strong><br>
161: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
162: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
163: <p>
164:
165: <li><strong>
166: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
167: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
168: </strong><br>
169: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
170: <p>
171:
172: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 173: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
174: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
175: </strong><br>
176: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
177: security community.
178: <p>
179:
180: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 181: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
182: </strong><br>
183: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
184: <p>
185:
186: <li><strong>
187: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
188: </strong><br>
189: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
190: <p>
191:
1.132 louis 192: <h3>2000</h3>
193:
194: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 195: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
196: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
197: </strong><br>
198: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
199: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
200: <p>
201:
202: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 203: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
204: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
205: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
206: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
207: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
208: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 209: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 210: <p>
211:
212: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 213: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
214: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
215: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
216: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 217: <p>
1.4 millert 218:
1.132 louis 219: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
220: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 221: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 222: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 223: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 224: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
225: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
226:
227: <ul>
1.159 miod 228: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
229: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 230: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
231: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
232: </ul>
1.4 millert 233: <p>
1.132 louis 234:
1.7 deraadt 235: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 236: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
237: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
238: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
239: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
240: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
241: mind (drinks afterwards).
242: <p>
243:
244: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 245: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 246: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
247: questions.
1.32 deraadt 248: <p>
1.1 deraadt 249:
1.132 louis 250: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
251: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
252: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 253: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
254: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 255: <p>
256:
1.132 louis 257: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
258: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
259: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
260: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
261: <ul>
262: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
263: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
264: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
265: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
266: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
267: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 268: <p>
1.132 louis 269:
1.10 provos 270: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 271: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
272: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
273: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
274: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
275: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
276: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
277: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
278: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
279: <br>
280: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
281: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
282: <p>
1.32 deraadt 283:
1.132 louis 284: <li><strong>
285: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
286: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
287: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
288: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
289: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
290: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
291: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
292: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
293: and spoke about
294: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
295: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
296: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
297: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 298: <p>
1.132 louis 299:
1.6 deraadt 300: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 301: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
302: LinuxTag 2000,
303: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
304: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
305: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
306: <br>
307: Christian Weisgerber gave a
308: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
309: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 310: <p>
1.1 deraadt 311:
1.6 deraadt 312: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 313: <a name=usenix2000>
314: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 315: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 316: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
317: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
318: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
319: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
320: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
321: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 322: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 323: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
324: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
325: <ul>
326:
327: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
328: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
329: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
330: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
331: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
332: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
333:
334: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
335: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
336: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
337: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
338: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
339: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 340:
1.132 louis 341: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
342: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
343: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
344: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 345: <p>
346:
1.132 louis 347: <li><strong>
348: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
349: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
350: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
351: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
352: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
353: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 354: <p>
1.2 deraadt 355:
1.132 louis 356: <li><strong>
357: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
358: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
359: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
360: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
361: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
362: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
363: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
364: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 365: <p>
1.11 jkatz 366:
1.17 deraadt 367: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 368: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
369: CONVERGENCE 2000.
370: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
371: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
372: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
373: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
374: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
375: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 376: <p>
1.17 deraadt 377:
1.23 niklas 378: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 379: CanSecWest.
380: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
381: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
382: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
383: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
384: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
385: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
386: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
387: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 388: <p>
1.25 deraadt 389:
1.132 louis 390: <li><strong>
391: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
392: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
393: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
394: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
395: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
396: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 397: <p>
1.23 niklas 398:
1.31 deraadt 399: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 400: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
401: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
402: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 403: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 404: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
405: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
406: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
407: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 408: <p>
1.31 deraadt 409:
1.132 louis 410: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 411: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 412: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
413: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
414: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
415: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 416: <p>
417:
1.132 louis 418: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 419:
1.132 louis 420: <li>
421: <strong>
422: The Bazaar.
423: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
424: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
425: firewalls with OpenBSD.
426: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
427: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
428: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
429: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 430: <p>
431:
1.132 louis 432: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 433: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 434: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
435: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
436: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
437: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
438: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
439: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
440: There were many other OpenBSD
441: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
442: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
443:
444: <ul>
445: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
446: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
447: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
448: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
449: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
450: </ul>
451: <p>
452:
453: <li><strong>
454: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
455: IP-dagarna 1999
456: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
457: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
458: <p>
459:
460: <li><strong>
461: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
462: Linux & Open Source Software '99
463: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
464: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
465: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
466: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
467: <p>
468:
469: <li><strong>
470: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
471: Reflections/Projections 1999
472: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
473: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
474: developers from the east coast attended as well.
475: <p>
476:
477: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
478: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
479: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
480: (in swedish)</strong><br>
481: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
482: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
483: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
484: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
485: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
486: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
487: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
488: conference in Stockholm.
489: <p>
490:
491: <li><strong>
492: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
493: AUUG'99.
494: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
495: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
496: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
497: coordinated.
498: <p>
499:
500: <li><strong>
501: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
502: Usenix Security.
503: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
504: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
505: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
506: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
507: significant security roles.
508: <p>
509:
510: <li><strong>
511: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
512: 45th IETF meeting.
513: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
514: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
515: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
516: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 517: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 518: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
519: <p>
1.45 jason 520:
1.132 louis 521: <li><strong>
522: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
523: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
524: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
525: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 526: <p>
1.132 louis 527:
1.46 deraadt 528: <a name=usenix99>
529: <li><strong>
530: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
531: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 532: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 533: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 534: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 535: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
536: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 537: June.)
1.132 louis 538: <br>
1.46 deraadt 539: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 540: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
541:
1.46 deraadt 542: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 543: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 544: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 545: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 546: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
547: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 548: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
549: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 550: <br>
1.66 deraadt 551: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 552: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 553: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 554: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
555: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
556: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 557: <br>
1.66 deraadt 558: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 559: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 560: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
561: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
562: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
563: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
564: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 565: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
566: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 567: <br>
1.66 deraadt 568: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 569: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 570: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
571: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 572: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
573: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 574: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 575: <p>
1.46 deraadt 576:
1.51 deraadt 577: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 578: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
579: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
580: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
581: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
582: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
583: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
584: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
585: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 586: <p>
587:
1.53 jakob 588: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 589: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
590: 44th IETF meeting.
591: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
592: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
593: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 594: <p>
595:
1.132 louis 596: <li><strong>
597: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
598: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
599: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
600: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
601: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
602: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 603: <p>
604:
1.132 louis 605: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 606:
1.132 louis 607: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
608: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
609: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
610: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
611: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 612: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 613: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
614: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
615: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
616: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 617: <p>
618:
1.71 niklas 619: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 620: <a name=lisaboston-98>
621: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
622: 12th Systems Administration Conference
623: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
624: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
625: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
626: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
627: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
628: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
629: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
630: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
631: <br>
632: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
633: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
634: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 635: <p>
636:
1.73 deraadt 637: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 638: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
639: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
640: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
641: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
642: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
643: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 644: <p>
1.73 deraadt 645:
1.75 mickey 646: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 647: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 648: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 649: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
650: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
651: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
652: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
653: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 654: <p>
1.73 deraadt 655:
1.80 deraadt 656: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 657: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
658: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
659: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 660: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 661: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 662: <p>
663:
1.93 louis 664: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 665: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
666: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
667: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
668: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 669: <p>
670:
1.132 louis 671: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
672: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
673: California, USA.</strong></a>
674: <br>
675: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
676: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 677: <p>
678:
1.132 louis 679: <a name=defcon98>
680: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
681: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
682: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
683: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
684: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
685: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
686: <br>
687: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
688: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
689: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
690: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 691: <p>
1.94 deraadt 692:
1.132 louis 693: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
694: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
695: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
696: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
697: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
698: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
699: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 700: <p>
701:
1.101 wvdputte 702: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 703: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
704: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 705: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 706: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
707: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
708: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
709: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
710: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
711: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
712: <br>
713: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
714: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 715: <p>
716:
1.105 wvdputte 717: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 718: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
719: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
720: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
721: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
722: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
723: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 724: <br>
1.132 louis 725: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
726: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 727:
1.132 louis 728: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 729:
1.113 deraadt 730: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 731: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
732: </strong><br>
733: Niels held a
734: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
735: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
736: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 737: <p>
1.132 louis 738:
739: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 740: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 741: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
742: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 743: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 744:
1.132 louis 745: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
746: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
747: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
748: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
749: <br>
750: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 751: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 752: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 753: <p>
754:
1.125 deraadt 755: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 756: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
757: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
758: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
759: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
760: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 761:
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