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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:
1.59 deraadt 25: <dl>
1.75 mickey 26:
1.183 wvdputte 27:
28: <h3>2003</h3>
29:
1.184 wvdputte 30: <li><strong><a href= http://www.fosdem.org/>FOSDEM 2003</a></strong> February 8 - 9 2003 Brussels<br>
31: Henning will be giving a talk on -current developments and on Saturday evening,
32: there will be an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1.183 wvdputte 33: <p>
1.171 ian 34:
1.152 jakob 35: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 45: <h2>Past events:</h2>
46: <dl>
47:
1.185 ! miod 48: <h3>2003</h3>
! 49: <li><strong><a href= http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default>Linux Solutions</a></strong> February 4-6 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense
! 50: <br>
! 51: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
! 52: CD sets and Tshirts.
! 53: <p>
! 54:
1.161 millert 55: <h3>2002</h3>
1.184 wvdputte 56: <li><strong><a href= http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/>19c3: the 19th CCC Congress</a></strong> December 27-29 Berlin
57: <br>
58: There was a huge <a href= "http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
59: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
60: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
61: <p>
1.177 jason 62:
1.178 pb 63: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">
64: BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong><br>
1.180 henning 65: took place November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1.181 henning 66: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 67: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 68: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
69: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
70: and Ian Darwin presented a
71: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
72: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 73: <p>
1.178 pb 74:
1.177 jason 75: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
76: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference 3-8 Nov 2002, Philadelphia, USA
77: </a></strong><br>
78: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
79: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
80: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
81: <p>
82:
1.172 miod 83: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
84: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
85: took place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
86: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
87: Niels Provos presented his
88: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
89: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 90: <p>
1.172 miod 91:
1.171 ian 92: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
93: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
94: Webb.it took place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
95: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
96: <p>
97:
1.168 miod 98: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
99: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 100: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 101: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 102: had a chance to prove their value.
103: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 104: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 105: <p>
1.168 miod 106:
1.161 millert 107: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
108: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 109: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
110: are available.
1.161 millert 111: <p>
112:
1.163 miod 113: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
114: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
115: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
116: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
117: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
118: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
119: <p>
120:
1.164 millert 121: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
122: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
123: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
124: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
125: <p>
126:
1.152 jakob 127: <h3>2001</h3>
128:
1.160 jufi 129: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
130: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
131: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
132: <p>
133:
134: <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>
135: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
136: <p>
137:
1.158 deraadt 138: <li><strong>
139: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
140: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
141: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
142: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
143: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
144: <p>
145:
1.156 provos 146: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
147: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
148: <p>
149:
150: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
151: Jakob and Itojun were there.
152: <p>
1.158 deraadt 153:
1.150 wvdputte 154: <li><strong>
155: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
156: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 157: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
158: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
159: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 160: <p>
1.137 aaron 161:
162: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 163: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
164: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
165: </strong><br>
166: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
167: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
168: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
169: <p>
170:
171: <li><strong>
172: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
173: </strong><br>
174: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
175: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
176: <p>
177:
178: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 179: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
180: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
181: </strong><br>
182: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
183: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
184: <p>
185:
186: <li><strong>
187: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
188: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
189: </strong><br>
190: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
191: <p>
192:
193: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 194: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
195: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
196: </strong><br>
197: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
198: security community.
199: <p>
200:
201: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 202: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
203: </strong><br>
204: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
205: <p>
206:
207: <li><strong>
208: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
209: </strong><br>
210: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
211: <p>
212:
1.132 louis 213: <h3>2000</h3>
214:
215: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 216: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
217: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
218: </strong><br>
219: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
220: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
221: <p>
222:
223: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 224: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
225: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
226: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
227: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
228: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
229: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 230: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 231: <p>
232:
233: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 234: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
235: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
236: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
237: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 238: <p>
1.4 millert 239:
1.132 louis 240: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
241: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 242: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 243: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 244: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 245: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
246: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
247:
248: <ul>
1.159 miod 249: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
250: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 251: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
252: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
253: </ul>
1.4 millert 254: <p>
1.132 louis 255:
1.7 deraadt 256: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 257: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
258: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
259: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
260: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
261: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
262: mind (drinks afterwards).
263: <p>
264:
265: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 266: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 267: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
268: questions.
1.32 deraadt 269: <p>
1.1 deraadt 270:
1.132 louis 271: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
272: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
273: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 274: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
275: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 276: <p>
277:
1.132 louis 278: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
279: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
280: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
281: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
282: <ul>
283: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
284: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
285: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
286: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
287: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
288: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 289: <p>
1.132 louis 290:
1.10 provos 291: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 292: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
293: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
294: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
295: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
296: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
297: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
298: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
299: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
300: <br>
301: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
302: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
303: <p>
1.32 deraadt 304:
1.132 louis 305: <li><strong>
306: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
307: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
308: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
309: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
310: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
311: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
312: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
313: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
314: and spoke about
315: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
316: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
317: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
318: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 319: <p>
1.132 louis 320:
1.6 deraadt 321: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 322: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
323: LinuxTag 2000,
324: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
325: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
326: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
327: <br>
328: Christian Weisgerber gave a
329: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
330: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 331: <p>
1.1 deraadt 332:
1.6 deraadt 333: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 334: <a name=usenix2000>
335: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 336: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 337: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
338: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
339: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
340: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
341: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
342: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 343: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 344: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
345: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
346: <ul>
347:
348: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
349: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
350: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
351: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
352: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
353: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
354:
355: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
356: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
357: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
358: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
359: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
360: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 361:
1.132 louis 362: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
363: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
364: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
365: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 366: <p>
367:
1.132 louis 368: <li><strong>
369: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
370: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
371: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
372: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
373: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
374: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 375: <p>
1.2 deraadt 376:
1.132 louis 377: <li><strong>
378: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
379: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
380: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
381: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
382: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
383: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
384: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
385: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 386: <p>
1.11 jkatz 387:
1.17 deraadt 388: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 389: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
390: CONVERGENCE 2000.
391: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
392: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
393: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
394: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
395: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
396: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 397: <p>
1.17 deraadt 398:
1.23 niklas 399: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 400: CanSecWest.
401: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
402: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
403: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
404: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
405: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
406: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
407: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
408: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 409: <p>
1.25 deraadt 410:
1.132 louis 411: <li><strong>
412: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
413: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
414: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
415: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
416: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
417: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 418: <p>
1.23 niklas 419:
1.31 deraadt 420: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 421: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
422: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
423: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 424: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 425: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
426: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
427: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
428: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 429: <p>
1.31 deraadt 430:
1.132 louis 431: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 432: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 433: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
434: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
435: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
436: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 437: <p>
438:
1.132 louis 439: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 440:
1.132 louis 441: <li>
442: <strong>
443: The Bazaar.
444: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
445: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
446: firewalls with OpenBSD.
447: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
448: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
449: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
450: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 451: <p>
452:
1.132 louis 453: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 454: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 455: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
456: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
457: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
458: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
459: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
460: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
461: There were many other OpenBSD
462: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
463: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
464:
465: <ul>
466: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
467: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
468: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
469: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
470: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
471: </ul>
472: <p>
473:
474: <li><strong>
475: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
476: IP-dagarna 1999
477: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
478: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
479: <p>
480:
481: <li><strong>
482: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
483: Linux & Open Source Software '99
484: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
485: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
486: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
487: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
488: <p>
489:
490: <li><strong>
491: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
492: Reflections/Projections 1999
493: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
494: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
495: developers from the east coast attended as well.
496: <p>
497:
498: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
499: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
500: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
501: (in swedish)</strong><br>
502: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
503: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
504: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
505: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
506: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
507: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
508: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
509: conference in Stockholm.
510: <p>
511:
512: <li><strong>
513: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
514: AUUG'99.
515: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
516: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
517: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
518: coordinated.
519: <p>
520:
521: <li><strong>
522: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
523: Usenix Security.
524: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
525: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
526: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
527: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
528: significant security roles.
529: <p>
530:
531: <li><strong>
532: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
533: 45th IETF meeting.
534: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
535: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
536: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
537: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 538: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 539: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
540: <p>
1.45 jason 541:
1.132 louis 542: <li><strong>
543: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
544: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
545: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
546: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 547: <p>
1.132 louis 548:
1.46 deraadt 549: <a name=usenix99>
550: <li><strong>
551: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
552: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 553: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 554: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 555: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 556: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
557: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 558: June.)
1.132 louis 559: <br>
1.46 deraadt 560: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 561: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
562:
1.46 deraadt 563: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 564: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 565: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 566: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 567: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
568: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 569: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
570: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 571: <br>
1.66 deraadt 572: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 573: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 574: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 575: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
576: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
577: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 578: <br>
1.66 deraadt 579: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 580: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 581: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
582: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
583: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
584: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
585: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 586: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
587: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 588: <br>
1.66 deraadt 589: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 590: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 591: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
592: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 593: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
594: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 595: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 596: <p>
1.46 deraadt 597:
1.51 deraadt 598: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 599: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
600: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
601: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
602: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
603: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
604: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
605: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
606: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 607: <p>
608:
1.53 jakob 609: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 610: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
611: 44th IETF meeting.
612: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
613: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
614: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 615: <p>
616:
1.132 louis 617: <li><strong>
618: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
619: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
620: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
621: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
622: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
623: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 624: <p>
625:
1.132 louis 626: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 627:
1.132 louis 628: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
629: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
630: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
631: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
632: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 633: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 634: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
635: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
636: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
637: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 638: <p>
639:
1.71 niklas 640: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 641: <a name=lisaboston-98>
642: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
643: 12th Systems Administration Conference
644: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
645: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
646: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
647: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
648: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
649: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
650: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
651: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
652: <br>
653: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
654: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
655: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 656: <p>
657:
1.73 deraadt 658: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 659: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
660: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
661: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
662: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
663: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
664: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 665: <p>
1.73 deraadt 666:
1.75 mickey 667: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 668: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 669: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 670: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
671: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
672: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
673: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
674: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 675: <p>
1.73 deraadt 676:
1.80 deraadt 677: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 678: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
679: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
680: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 681: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 682: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 683: <p>
684:
1.93 louis 685: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 686: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
687: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
688: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
689: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 690: <p>
691:
1.132 louis 692: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
693: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
694: California, USA.</strong></a>
695: <br>
696: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
697: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 698: <p>
699:
1.132 louis 700: <a name=defcon98>
701: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
702: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
703: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
704: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
705: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
706: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
707: <br>
708: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
709: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
710: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
711: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 712: <p>
1.94 deraadt 713:
1.132 louis 714: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
715: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
716: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
717: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
718: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
719: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
720: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 721: <p>
722:
1.101 wvdputte 723: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 724: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
725: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 726: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 727: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
728: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
729: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
730: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
731: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
732: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
733: <br>
734: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
735: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 736: <p>
737:
1.105 wvdputte 738: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 739: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
740: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
741: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
742: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
743: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
744: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 745: <br>
1.132 louis 746: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
747: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 748:
1.132 louis 749: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 750:
1.113 deraadt 751: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 752: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
753: </strong><br>
754: Niels held a
755: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
756: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
757: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 758: <p>
1.132 louis 759:
760: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 761: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 762: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
763: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 764: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 765:
1.132 louis 766: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
767: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
768: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
769: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
770: <br>
771: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 772: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 773: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 774: <p>
775:
1.125 deraadt 776: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 777: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
778: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
779: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
780: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
781: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 782:
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