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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.
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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>
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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>
1.180 ! henning 47: took place November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
! 48: OpenBSD people were be there;
! 49: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.178 pb 50: network performance tuning on OpenBSD,
1.180 ! henning 51: and Ian Darwin presented a tutorial on OpenBSD firewalls.
1.178 pb 52: <p>
1.179 pb 53: The <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">tuning paper</a> is
54: available.
55: <p>
1.178 pb 56:
1.177 jason 57: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
58: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference 3-8 Nov 2002, Philadelphia, USA
59: </a></strong><br>
60: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
61: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
62: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
63: <p>
64:
1.172 miod 65: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
66: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
67: took place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
68: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
69: Niels Provos presented his
70: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
71: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 72: <p>
1.172 miod 73:
1.171 ian 74: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
75: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
76: Webb.it took place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
77: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
78: <p>
79:
1.168 miod 80: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
81: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 82: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 83: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 84: had a chance to prove their value.
85: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 86: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 87: <p>
1.168 miod 88:
1.161 millert 89: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
90: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 91: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
92: are available.
1.161 millert 93: <p>
94:
1.163 miod 95: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
96: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
97: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
98: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
99: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
100: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
101: <p>
102:
1.164 millert 103: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
104: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
105: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
106: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
107: <p>
108:
1.152 jakob 109: <h3>2001</h3>
110:
1.160 jufi 111: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
112: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
113: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
114: <p>
115:
116: <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>
117: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
118: <p>
119:
1.158 deraadt 120: <li><strong>
121: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
122: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
123: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
124: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
125: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
126: <p>
127:
1.156 provos 128: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
129: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
130: <p>
131:
132: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
133: Jakob and Itojun were there.
134: <p>
1.158 deraadt 135:
1.150 wvdputte 136: <li><strong>
137: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
138: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 139: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
140: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
141: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 142: <p>
1.137 aaron 143:
144: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 145: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
146: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
147: </strong><br>
148: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
149: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
150: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
151: <p>
152:
153: <li><strong>
154: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
155: </strong><br>
156: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
157: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
158: <p>
159:
160: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 161: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
162: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
163: </strong><br>
164: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
165: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
166: <p>
167:
168: <li><strong>
169: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
170: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
171: </strong><br>
172: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
173: <p>
174:
175: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 176: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
177: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
178: </strong><br>
179: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
180: security community.
181: <p>
182:
183: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 184: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
185: </strong><br>
186: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
187: <p>
188:
189: <li><strong>
190: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
191: </strong><br>
192: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
193: <p>
194:
1.132 louis 195: <h3>2000</h3>
196:
197: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 198: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
199: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
200: </strong><br>
201: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
202: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
203: <p>
204:
205: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 206: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
207: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
208: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
209: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
210: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
211: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 212: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 213: <p>
214:
215: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 216: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
217: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
218: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
219: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 220: <p>
1.4 millert 221:
1.132 louis 222: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
223: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 224: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 225: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 226: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 227: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
228: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
229:
230: <ul>
1.159 miod 231: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
232: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 233: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
234: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
235: </ul>
1.4 millert 236: <p>
1.132 louis 237:
1.7 deraadt 238: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 239: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
240: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
241: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
242: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
243: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
244: mind (drinks afterwards).
245: <p>
246:
247: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 248: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 249: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
250: questions.
1.32 deraadt 251: <p>
1.1 deraadt 252:
1.132 louis 253: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
254: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
255: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 256: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
257: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 258: <p>
259:
1.132 louis 260: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
261: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
262: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
263: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
264: <ul>
265: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
266: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
267: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
268: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
269: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
270: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 271: <p>
1.132 louis 272:
1.10 provos 273: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 274: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
275: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
276: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
277: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
278: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
279: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
280: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
281: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
282: <br>
283: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
284: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
285: <p>
1.32 deraadt 286:
1.132 louis 287: <li><strong>
288: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
289: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
290: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
291: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
292: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
293: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
294: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
295: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
296: and spoke about
297: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
298: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
299: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
300: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 301: <p>
1.132 louis 302:
1.6 deraadt 303: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 304: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
305: LinuxTag 2000,
306: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
307: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
308: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
309: <br>
310: Christian Weisgerber gave a
311: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
312: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 313: <p>
1.1 deraadt 314:
1.6 deraadt 315: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 316: <a name=usenix2000>
317: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 318: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 319: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
320: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
321: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
322: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
323: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
324: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 325: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 326: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
327: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
328: <ul>
329:
330: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
331: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
332: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
333: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
334: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
335: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
336:
337: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
338: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
339: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
340: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
341: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
342: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 343:
1.132 louis 344: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
345: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
346: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
347: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 348: <p>
349:
1.132 louis 350: <li><strong>
351: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
352: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
353: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
354: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
355: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
356: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 357: <p>
1.2 deraadt 358:
1.132 louis 359: <li><strong>
360: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
361: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
362: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
363: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
364: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
365: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
366: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
367: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 368: <p>
1.11 jkatz 369:
1.17 deraadt 370: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 371: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
372: CONVERGENCE 2000.
373: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
374: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
375: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
376: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
377: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
378: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 379: <p>
1.17 deraadt 380:
1.23 niklas 381: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 382: CanSecWest.
383: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
384: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
385: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
386: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
387: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
388: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
389: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
390: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 391: <p>
1.25 deraadt 392:
1.132 louis 393: <li><strong>
394: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
395: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
396: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
397: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
398: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
399: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 400: <p>
1.23 niklas 401:
1.31 deraadt 402: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 403: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
404: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
405: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 406: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 407: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
408: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
409: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
410: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 411: <p>
1.31 deraadt 412:
1.132 louis 413: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 414: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 415: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
416: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
417: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
418: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 419: <p>
420:
1.132 louis 421: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 422:
1.132 louis 423: <li>
424: <strong>
425: The Bazaar.
426: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
427: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
428: firewalls with OpenBSD.
429: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
430: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
431: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
432: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 433: <p>
434:
1.132 louis 435: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 436: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 437: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
438: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
439: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
440: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
441: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
442: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
443: There were many other OpenBSD
444: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
445: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
446:
447: <ul>
448: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
449: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
450: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
451: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
452: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
453: </ul>
454: <p>
455:
456: <li><strong>
457: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
458: IP-dagarna 1999
459: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
460: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
461: <p>
462:
463: <li><strong>
464: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
465: Linux & Open Source Software '99
466: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
467: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
468: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
469: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
470: <p>
471:
472: <li><strong>
473: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
474: Reflections/Projections 1999
475: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
476: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
477: developers from the east coast attended as well.
478: <p>
479:
480: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
481: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
482: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
483: (in swedish)</strong><br>
484: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
485: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
486: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
487: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
488: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
489: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
490: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
491: conference in Stockholm.
492: <p>
493:
494: <li><strong>
495: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
496: AUUG'99.
497: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
498: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
499: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
500: coordinated.
501: <p>
502:
503: <li><strong>
504: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
505: Usenix Security.
506: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
507: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
508: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
509: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
510: significant security roles.
511: <p>
512:
513: <li><strong>
514: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
515: 45th IETF meeting.
516: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
517: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
518: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
519: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 520: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 521: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
522: <p>
1.45 jason 523:
1.132 louis 524: <li><strong>
525: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
526: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
527: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
528: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 529: <p>
1.132 louis 530:
1.46 deraadt 531: <a name=usenix99>
532: <li><strong>
533: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
534: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 535: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 536: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 537: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 538: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
539: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 540: June.)
1.132 louis 541: <br>
1.46 deraadt 542: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 543: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
544:
1.46 deraadt 545: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 546: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 547: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 548: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 549: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
550: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 551: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
552: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 553: <br>
1.66 deraadt 554: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 555: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 556: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 557: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
558: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
559: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 560: <br>
1.66 deraadt 561: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 562: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 563: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
564: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
565: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
566: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
567: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 568: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
569: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 570: <br>
1.66 deraadt 571: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 572: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 573: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
574: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 575: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
576: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 577: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 578: <p>
1.46 deraadt 579:
1.51 deraadt 580: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 581: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
582: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
583: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
584: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
585: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
586: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
587: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
588: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 589: <p>
590:
1.53 jakob 591: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 592: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
593: 44th IETF meeting.
594: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
595: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
596: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 597: <p>
598:
1.132 louis 599: <li><strong>
600: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
601: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
602: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
603: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
604: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
605: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 606: <p>
607:
1.132 louis 608: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 609:
1.132 louis 610: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
611: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
612: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
613: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
614: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 615: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 616: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
617: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
618: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
619: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 620: <p>
621:
1.71 niklas 622: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 623: <a name=lisaboston-98>
624: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
625: 12th Systems Administration Conference
626: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
627: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
628: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
629: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
630: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
631: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
632: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
633: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
634: <br>
635: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
636: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
637: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 638: <p>
639:
1.73 deraadt 640: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 641: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
642: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
643: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
644: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
645: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
646: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 647: <p>
1.73 deraadt 648:
1.75 mickey 649: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 650: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 651: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 652: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
653: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
654: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
655: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
656: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 657: <p>
1.73 deraadt 658:
1.80 deraadt 659: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 660: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
661: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
662: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 663: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 664: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 665: <p>
666:
1.93 louis 667: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 668: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
669: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
670: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
671: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 672: <p>
673:
1.132 louis 674: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
675: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
676: California, USA.</strong></a>
677: <br>
678: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
679: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 680: <p>
681:
1.132 louis 682: <a name=defcon98>
683: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
684: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
685: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
686: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
687: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
688: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
689: <br>
690: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
691: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
692: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
693: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 694: <p>
1.94 deraadt 695:
1.132 louis 696: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
697: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
698: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
699: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
700: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
701: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
702: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 703: <p>
704:
1.101 wvdputte 705: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 706: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
707: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 708: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 709: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
710: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
711: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
712: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
713: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
714: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
715: <br>
716: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
717: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 718: <p>
719:
1.105 wvdputte 720: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 721: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
722: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
723: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
724: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
725: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
726: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 727: <br>
1.132 louis 728: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
729: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 730:
1.132 louis 731: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 732:
1.113 deraadt 733: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 734: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
735: </strong><br>
736: Niels held a
737: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
738: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
739: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 740: <p>
1.132 louis 741:
742: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 743: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 744: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
745: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 746: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 747:
1.132 louis 748: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
749: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
750: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
751: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
752: <br>
753: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 754: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 755: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 756: <p>
757:
1.125 deraadt 758: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 759: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
760: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
761: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
762: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
763: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 764:
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