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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:
1.183 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>
1.186 ! henning 31: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
! 32: (<a href="/papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
! 33: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1.183 wvdputte 34: <p>
1.171 ian 35:
1.152 jakob 36: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 46: <h2>Past events:</h2>
47: <dl>
48:
1.185 miod 49: <h3>2003</h3>
50: <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
51: <br>
52: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
53: CD sets and Tshirts.
54: <p>
55:
1.161 millert 56: <h3>2002</h3>
1.184 wvdputte 57: <li><strong><a href= http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/>19c3: the 19th CCC Congress</a></strong> December 27-29 Berlin
58: <br>
59: There was a huge <a href= "http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
60: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
61: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
62: <p>
1.177 jason 63:
1.178 pb 64: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">
65: BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong><br>
1.180 henning 66: took place November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1.181 henning 67: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 68: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 69: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
70: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
71: and Ian Darwin presented a
72: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
73: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 74: <p>
1.178 pb 75:
1.177 jason 76: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
77: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference 3-8 Nov 2002, Philadelphia, USA
78: </a></strong><br>
79: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
80: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
81: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
82: <p>
83:
1.172 miod 84: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
85: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
86: took place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
87: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
88: Niels Provos presented his
89: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
90: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 91: <p>
1.172 miod 92:
1.171 ian 93: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
94: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
95: Webb.it took place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
96: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
97: <p>
98:
1.168 miod 99: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
100: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 101: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 102: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 103: had a chance to prove their value.
104: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 105: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 106: <p>
1.168 miod 107:
1.161 millert 108: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
109: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 110: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
111: are available.
1.161 millert 112: <p>
113:
1.163 miod 114: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
115: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
116: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
117: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
118: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
119: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
120: <p>
121:
1.164 millert 122: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
123: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
124: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
125: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
126: <p>
127:
1.152 jakob 128: <h3>2001</h3>
129:
1.160 jufi 130: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
131: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
132: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
133: <p>
134:
135: <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>
136: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
137: <p>
138:
1.158 deraadt 139: <li><strong>
140: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
141: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
142: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
143: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
144: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
145: <p>
146:
1.156 provos 147: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
148: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
149: <p>
150:
151: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
152: Jakob and Itojun were there.
153: <p>
1.158 deraadt 154:
1.150 wvdputte 155: <li><strong>
156: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
157: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 158: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
159: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
160: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 161: <p>
1.137 aaron 162:
163: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 164: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
165: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
166: </strong><br>
167: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
168: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
169: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
170: <p>
171:
172: <li><strong>
173: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
174: </strong><br>
175: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
176: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
177: <p>
178:
179: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 180: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
181: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
182: </strong><br>
183: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
184: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
185: <p>
186:
187: <li><strong>
188: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
189: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
190: </strong><br>
191: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
192: <p>
193:
194: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 195: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
196: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
197: </strong><br>
198: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
199: security community.
200: <p>
201:
202: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 203: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
204: </strong><br>
205: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
206: <p>
207:
208: <li><strong>
209: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
210: </strong><br>
211: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
212: <p>
213:
1.132 louis 214: <h3>2000</h3>
215:
216: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 217: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
218: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
219: </strong><br>
220: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
221: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
222: <p>
223:
224: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 225: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
226: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
227: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
228: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
229: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
230: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 231: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 232: <p>
233:
234: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 235: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
236: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
237: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
238: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 239: <p>
1.4 millert 240:
1.132 louis 241: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
242: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 243: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 244: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 245: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 246: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
247: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
248:
249: <ul>
1.159 miod 250: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
251: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 252: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
253: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
254: </ul>
1.4 millert 255: <p>
1.132 louis 256:
1.7 deraadt 257: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 258: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
259: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
260: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
261: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
262: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
263: mind (drinks afterwards).
264: <p>
265:
266: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 267: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 268: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
269: questions.
1.32 deraadt 270: <p>
1.1 deraadt 271:
1.132 louis 272: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
273: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
274: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 275: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
276: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 277: <p>
278:
1.132 louis 279: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
280: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
281: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
282: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
283: <ul>
284: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
285: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
286: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
287: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
288: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
289: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 290: <p>
1.132 louis 291:
1.10 provos 292: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 293: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
294: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
295: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
296: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
297: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
298: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
299: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
300: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
301: <br>
302: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
303: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
304: <p>
1.32 deraadt 305:
1.132 louis 306: <li><strong>
307: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
308: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
309: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
310: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
311: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
312: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
313: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
314: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
315: and spoke about
316: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
317: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
318: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
319: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 320: <p>
1.132 louis 321:
1.6 deraadt 322: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 323: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
324: LinuxTag 2000,
325: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
326: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
327: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
328: <br>
329: Christian Weisgerber gave a
330: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
331: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 332: <p>
1.1 deraadt 333:
1.6 deraadt 334: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 335: <a name=usenix2000>
336: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 337: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 338: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
339: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
340: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
341: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
342: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
343: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 344: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 345: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
346: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
347: <ul>
348:
349: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
350: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
351: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
352: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
353: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
354: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
355:
356: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
357: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
358: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
359: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
360: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
361: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 362:
1.132 louis 363: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
364: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
365: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
366: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 367: <p>
368:
1.132 louis 369: <li><strong>
370: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
371: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
372: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
373: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
374: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
375: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 376: <p>
1.2 deraadt 377:
1.132 louis 378: <li><strong>
379: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
380: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
381: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
382: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
383: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
384: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
385: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
386: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 387: <p>
1.11 jkatz 388:
1.17 deraadt 389: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 390: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
391: CONVERGENCE 2000.
392: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
393: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
394: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
395: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
396: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
397: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 398: <p>
1.17 deraadt 399:
1.23 niklas 400: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 401: CanSecWest.
402: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
403: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
404: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
405: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
406: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
407: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
408: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
409: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 410: <p>
1.25 deraadt 411:
1.132 louis 412: <li><strong>
413: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
414: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
415: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
416: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
417: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
418: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 419: <p>
1.23 niklas 420:
1.31 deraadt 421: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 422: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
423: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
424: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 425: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 426: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
427: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
428: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
429: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 430: <p>
1.31 deraadt 431:
1.132 louis 432: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 433: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 434: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
435: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
436: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
437: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 438: <p>
439:
1.132 louis 440: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 441:
1.132 louis 442: <li>
443: <strong>
444: The Bazaar.
445: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
446: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
447: firewalls with OpenBSD.
448: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
449: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
450: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
451: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 452: <p>
453:
1.132 louis 454: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 455: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 456: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
457: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
458: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
459: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
460: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
461: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
462: There were many other OpenBSD
463: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
464: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
465:
466: <ul>
467: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
468: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
469: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
470: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
471: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
472: </ul>
473: <p>
474:
475: <li><strong>
476: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
477: IP-dagarna 1999
478: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
479: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
480: <p>
481:
482: <li><strong>
483: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
484: Linux & Open Source Software '99
485: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
486: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
487: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
488: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
489: <p>
490:
491: <li><strong>
492: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
493: Reflections/Projections 1999
494: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
495: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
496: developers from the east coast attended as well.
497: <p>
498:
499: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
500: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
501: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
502: (in swedish)</strong><br>
503: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
504: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
505: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
506: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
507: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
508: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
509: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
510: conference in Stockholm.
511: <p>
512:
513: <li><strong>
514: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
515: AUUG'99.
516: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
517: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
518: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
519: coordinated.
520: <p>
521:
522: <li><strong>
523: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
524: Usenix Security.
525: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
526: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
527: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
528: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
529: significant security roles.
530: <p>
531:
532: <li><strong>
533: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
534: 45th IETF meeting.
535: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
536: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
537: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
538: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 539: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 540: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
541: <p>
1.45 jason 542:
1.132 louis 543: <li><strong>
544: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
545: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
546: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
547: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 548: <p>
1.132 louis 549:
1.46 deraadt 550: <a name=usenix99>
551: <li><strong>
552: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
553: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 554: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 555: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 556: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 557: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
558: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 559: June.)
1.132 louis 560: <br>
1.46 deraadt 561: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 562: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
563:
1.46 deraadt 564: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 565: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 566: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 567: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 568: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
569: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 570: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
571: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 572: <br>
1.66 deraadt 573: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 574: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 575: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 576: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
577: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
578: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 579: <br>
1.66 deraadt 580: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 581: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 582: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
583: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
584: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
585: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
586: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 587: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
588: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 589: <br>
1.66 deraadt 590: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 591: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 592: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
593: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 594: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
595: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 596: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 597: <p>
1.46 deraadt 598:
1.51 deraadt 599: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 600: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
601: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
602: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
603: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
604: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
605: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
606: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
607: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 608: <p>
609:
1.53 jakob 610: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 611: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
612: 44th IETF meeting.
613: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
614: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
615: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 616: <p>
617:
1.132 louis 618: <li><strong>
619: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
620: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
621: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
622: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
623: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
624: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 625: <p>
626:
1.132 louis 627: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 628:
1.132 louis 629: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
630: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
631: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
632: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
633: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 634: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 635: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
636: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
637: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
638: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 639: <p>
640:
1.71 niklas 641: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 642: <a name=lisaboston-98>
643: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
644: 12th Systems Administration Conference
645: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
646: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
647: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
648: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
649: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
650: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
651: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
652: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
653: <br>
654: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
655: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
656: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 657: <p>
658:
1.73 deraadt 659: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 660: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
661: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
662: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
663: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
664: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
665: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 666: <p>
1.73 deraadt 667:
1.75 mickey 668: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 669: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 670: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 671: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
672: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
673: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
674: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
675: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 676: <p>
1.73 deraadt 677:
1.80 deraadt 678: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 679: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
680: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
681: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 682: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 683: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 684: <p>
685:
1.93 louis 686: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 687: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
688: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
689: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
690: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 691: <p>
692:
1.132 louis 693: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
694: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
695: California, USA.</strong></a>
696: <br>
697: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
698: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 699: <p>
700:
1.132 louis 701: <a name=defcon98>
702: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
703: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
704: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
705: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
706: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
707: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
708: <br>
709: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
710: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
711: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
712: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 713: <p>
1.94 deraadt 714:
1.132 louis 715: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
716: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
717: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
718: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
719: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
720: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
721: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 722: <p>
723:
1.101 wvdputte 724: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 725: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
726: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 727: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 728: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
729: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
730: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
731: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
732: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
733: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
734: <br>
735: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
736: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 737: <p>
738:
1.105 wvdputte 739: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 740: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
741: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
742: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
743: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
744: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
745: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 746: <br>
1.132 louis 747: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
748: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 749:
1.132 louis 750: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 751:
1.113 deraadt 752: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 753: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
754: </strong><br>
755: Niels held a
756: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
757: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
758: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 759: <p>
1.132 louis 760:
761: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 762: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 763: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
764: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 765: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 766:
1.132 louis 767: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
768: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
769: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
770: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
771: <br>
772: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 773: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 774: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 775: <p>
776:
1.125 deraadt 777: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 778: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
779: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
780: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
781: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
782: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 783:
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