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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>
1.190 ! miod 29: <p>No OpenBSD related event is currently planned at the moment.
1.152 jakob 30: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 40: <h2>Past events:</h2>
41: <dl>
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1.188 henning 43: <h3>2003</h3>
1.190 ! miod 44: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong> February 25 2003, 18:00 MST<br>
! 45: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
! 46: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
! 47: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
! 48: <p>
! 49:
1.187 henning 50: <li><strong><a href= http://www.fosdem.org/>FOSDEM 2003</a></strong> February 8 - 9 2003 Brussels<br>
51: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
52: (<a href="/papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
53: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
54: <p>
55:
1.185 miod 56: <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
57: <br>
58: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
59: CD sets and Tshirts.
60: <p>
61:
1.161 millert 62: <h3>2002</h3>
1.184 wvdputte 63: <li><strong><a href= http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/>19c3: the 19th CCC Congress</a></strong> December 27-29 Berlin
64: <br>
65: There was a huge <a href= "http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
66: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
67: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
68: <p>
1.177 jason 69:
1.178 pb 70: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">
71: BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong><br>
1.180 henning 72: took place November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1.181 henning 73: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 74: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 75: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
76: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
77: and Ian Darwin presented a
78: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
79: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 80: <p>
1.178 pb 81:
1.177 jason 82: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
83: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference 3-8 Nov 2002, Philadelphia, USA
84: </a></strong><br>
85: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
86: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
87: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
88: <p>
89:
1.172 miod 90: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
91: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
92: took place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
93: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
94: Niels Provos presented his
95: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
96: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 97: <p>
1.172 miod 98:
1.171 ian 99: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
100: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
101: Webb.it took place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
102: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
103: <p>
104:
1.168 miod 105: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
106: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 107: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 108: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 109: had a chance to prove their value.
110: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 111: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 112: <p>
1.168 miod 113:
1.161 millert 114: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
115: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 116: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
117: are available.
1.161 millert 118: <p>
119:
1.163 miod 120: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
121: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
122: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
123: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
124: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
125: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
126: <p>
127:
1.164 millert 128: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
129: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
130: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
131: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
132: <p>
133:
1.152 jakob 134: <h3>2001</h3>
135:
1.160 jufi 136: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
137: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
138: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
139: <p>
140:
141: <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>
142: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
143: <p>
144:
1.158 deraadt 145: <li><strong>
146: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
147: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
148: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
149: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
150: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
151: <p>
152:
1.156 provos 153: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
154: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
155: <p>
156:
157: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
158: Jakob and Itojun were there.
159: <p>
1.158 deraadt 160:
1.150 wvdputte 161: <li><strong>
162: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
163: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 164: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
165: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
166: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 167: <p>
1.137 aaron 168:
169: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 170: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
171: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
172: </strong><br>
173: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
174: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
175: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
176: <p>
177:
178: <li><strong>
179: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
180: </strong><br>
181: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
182: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
183: <p>
184:
185: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 186: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
187: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
188: </strong><br>
189: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
190: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
191: <p>
192:
193: <li><strong>
194: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
195: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
196: </strong><br>
197: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
198: <p>
199:
200: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 201: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
202: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
203: </strong><br>
204: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
205: security community.
206: <p>
207:
208: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 209: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
210: </strong><br>
211: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
212: <p>
213:
214: <li><strong>
215: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
216: </strong><br>
217: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
218: <p>
219:
1.132 louis 220: <h3>2000</h3>
221:
222: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 223: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
224: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
225: </strong><br>
226: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
227: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
228: <p>
229:
230: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 231: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
232: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
233: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
234: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
235: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
236: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 237: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 238: <p>
239:
240: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 241: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
242: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
243: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
244: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 245: <p>
1.4 millert 246:
1.132 louis 247: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
248: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 249: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 250: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 251: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 252: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
253: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
254:
255: <ul>
1.159 miod 256: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
257: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 258: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
259: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
260: </ul>
1.4 millert 261: <p>
1.132 louis 262:
1.7 deraadt 263: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 264: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
265: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
266: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
267: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
268: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
269: mind (drinks afterwards).
270: <p>
271:
272: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 273: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 274: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
275: questions.
1.32 deraadt 276: <p>
1.1 deraadt 277:
1.132 louis 278: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
279: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
280: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 281: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
282: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 283: <p>
284:
1.132 louis 285: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
286: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
287: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
288: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
289: <ul>
290: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
291: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
292: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
293: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
294: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
295: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 296: <p>
1.132 louis 297:
1.10 provos 298: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 299: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
300: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
301: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
302: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
303: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
304: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
305: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
306: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
307: <br>
308: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
309: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
310: <p>
1.32 deraadt 311:
1.132 louis 312: <li><strong>
313: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
314: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
315: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
316: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
317: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
318: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
319: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
320: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
321: and spoke about
322: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
323: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
324: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
325: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 326: <p>
1.132 louis 327:
1.6 deraadt 328: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 329: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
330: LinuxTag 2000,
331: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
332: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
333: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
334: <br>
335: Christian Weisgerber gave a
336: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
337: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 338: <p>
1.1 deraadt 339:
1.6 deraadt 340: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 341: <a name=usenix2000>
342: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 343: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 344: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
345: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
346: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
347: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
348: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
349: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 350: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 351: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
352: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
353: <ul>
354:
355: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
356: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
357: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
358: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
359: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
360: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
361:
362: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
363: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
364: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
365: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
366: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
367: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 368:
1.132 louis 369: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
370: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
371: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
372: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 373: <p>
374:
1.132 louis 375: <li><strong>
376: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
377: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
378: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
379: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
380: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
381: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 382: <p>
1.2 deraadt 383:
1.132 louis 384: <li><strong>
385: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
386: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
387: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
388: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
389: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
390: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
391: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
392: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 393: <p>
1.11 jkatz 394:
1.17 deraadt 395: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 396: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
397: CONVERGENCE 2000.
398: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
399: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
400: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
401: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
402: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
403: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 404: <p>
1.17 deraadt 405:
1.23 niklas 406: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 407: CanSecWest.
408: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
409: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
410: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
411: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
412: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
413: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
414: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
415: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 416: <p>
1.25 deraadt 417:
1.132 louis 418: <li><strong>
419: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
420: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
421: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
422: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
423: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
424: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 425: <p>
1.23 niklas 426:
1.31 deraadt 427: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 428: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
429: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
430: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 431: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 432: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
433: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
434: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
435: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 436: <p>
1.31 deraadt 437:
1.132 louis 438: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 439: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 440: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
441: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
442: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
443: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 444: <p>
445:
1.132 louis 446: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 447:
1.132 louis 448: <li>
449: <strong>
450: The Bazaar.
451: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
452: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
453: firewalls with OpenBSD.
454: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
455: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
456: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
457: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 458: <p>
459:
1.132 louis 460: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 461: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 462: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
463: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
464: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
465: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
466: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
467: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
468: There were many other OpenBSD
469: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
470: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
471:
472: <ul>
473: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
474: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
475: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
476: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
477: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
478: </ul>
479: <p>
480:
481: <li><strong>
482: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
483: IP-dagarna 1999
484: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
485: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
486: <p>
487:
488: <li><strong>
489: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
490: Linux & Open Source Software '99
491: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
492: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
493: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
494: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
495: <p>
496:
497: <li><strong>
498: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
499: Reflections/Projections 1999
500: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
501: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
502: developers from the east coast attended as well.
503: <p>
504:
505: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
506: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
507: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
508: (in swedish)</strong><br>
509: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
510: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
511: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
512: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
513: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
514: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
515: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
516: conference in Stockholm.
517: <p>
518:
519: <li><strong>
520: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
521: AUUG'99.
522: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
523: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
524: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
525: coordinated.
526: <p>
527:
528: <li><strong>
529: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
530: Usenix Security.
531: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
532: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
533: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
534: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
535: significant security roles.
536: <p>
537:
538: <li><strong>
539: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
540: 45th IETF meeting.
541: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
542: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
543: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
544: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 545: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 546: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
547: <p>
1.45 jason 548:
1.132 louis 549: <li><strong>
550: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
551: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
552: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
553: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 554: <p>
1.132 louis 555:
1.46 deraadt 556: <a name=usenix99>
557: <li><strong>
558: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
559: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 560: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 561: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 562: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 563: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
564: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 565: June.)
1.132 louis 566: <br>
1.46 deraadt 567: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 568: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
569:
1.46 deraadt 570: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 571: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 572: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 573: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 574: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
575: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 576: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
577: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 578: <br>
1.66 deraadt 579: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 580: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 581: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 582: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
583: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
584: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 585: <br>
1.66 deraadt 586: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 587: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 588: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
589: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
590: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
591: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
592: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 593: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
594: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 595: <br>
1.66 deraadt 596: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 597: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 598: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
599: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 600: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
601: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 602: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 603: <p>
1.46 deraadt 604:
1.51 deraadt 605: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 606: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
607: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
608: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
609: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
610: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
611: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
612: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
613: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 614: <p>
615:
1.53 jakob 616: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 617: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
618: 44th IETF meeting.
619: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
620: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
621: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 622: <p>
623:
1.132 louis 624: <li><strong>
625: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
626: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
627: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
628: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
629: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
630: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 631: <p>
632:
1.132 louis 633: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 634:
1.132 louis 635: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
636: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
637: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
638: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
639: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 640: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 641: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
642: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
643: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
644: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 645: <p>
646:
1.71 niklas 647: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 648: <a name=lisaboston-98>
649: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
650: 12th Systems Administration Conference
651: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
652: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
653: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
654: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
655: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
656: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
657: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
658: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
659: <br>
660: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
661: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
662: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 663: <p>
664:
1.73 deraadt 665: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 666: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
667: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
668: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
669: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
670: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
671: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 672: <p>
1.73 deraadt 673:
1.75 mickey 674: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 675: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 676: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 677: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
678: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
679: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
680: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
681: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 682: <p>
1.73 deraadt 683:
1.80 deraadt 684: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 685: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
686: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
687: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 688: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 689: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 690: <p>
691:
1.93 louis 692: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 693: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
694: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
695: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
696: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 697: <p>
698:
1.132 louis 699: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
700: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
701: California, USA.</strong></a>
702: <br>
703: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
704: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 705: <p>
706:
1.132 louis 707: <a name=defcon98>
708: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
709: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
710: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
711: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
712: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
713: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
714: <br>
715: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
716: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
717: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
718: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 719: <p>
1.94 deraadt 720:
1.132 louis 721: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
722: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
723: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
724: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
725: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
726: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
727: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 728: <p>
729:
1.101 wvdputte 730: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 731: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
732: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 733: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 734: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
735: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
736: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
737: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
738: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
739: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
740: <br>
741: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
742: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 743: <p>
744:
1.105 wvdputte 745: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 746: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
747: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
748: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
749: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
750: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
751: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 752: <br>
1.132 louis 753: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
754: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 755:
1.132 louis 756: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 757:
1.113 deraadt 758: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 759: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
760: </strong><br>
761: Niels held a
762: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
763: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
764: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 765: <p>
1.132 louis 766:
767: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 768: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 769: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
770: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 771: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 772:
1.132 louis 773: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
774: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
775: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
776: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
777: <br>
778: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 779: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 780: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 781: <p>
782:
1.125 deraadt 783: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 784: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
785: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
786: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
787: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
788: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 789:
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