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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>
42:
1.188 henning 43: <h3>2003</h3>
1.191 ! dhartmei 44: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong> March 1, Copenhagen<br>
! 45: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="/papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
! 46: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
! 47: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
! 48: user groups.
! 49: <p>
! 50:
1.190 miod 51: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong> February 25 2003, 18:00 MST<br>
52: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
53: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
54: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
55: <p>
56:
1.187 henning 57: <li><strong><a href= http://www.fosdem.org/>FOSDEM 2003</a></strong> February 8 - 9 2003 Brussels<br>
58: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
59: (<a href="/papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
60: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
61: <p>
62:
1.185 miod 63: <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
64: <br>
65: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
66: CD sets and Tshirts.
67: <p>
68:
1.161 millert 69: <h3>2002</h3>
1.184 wvdputte 70: <li><strong><a href= http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/>19c3: the 19th CCC Congress</a></strong> December 27-29 Berlin
71: <br>
72: There was a huge <a href= "http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
73: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
74: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
75: <p>
1.177 jason 76:
1.178 pb 77: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">
78: BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong><br>
1.180 henning 79: took place November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1.181 henning 80: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 81: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 82: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
83: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
84: and Ian Darwin presented a
85: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
86: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 87: <p>
1.178 pb 88:
1.177 jason 89: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
90: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference 3-8 Nov 2002, Philadelphia, USA
91: </a></strong><br>
92: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
93: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
94: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
95: <p>
96:
1.172 miod 97: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
98: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
99: took place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
100: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
101: Niels Provos presented his
102: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
103: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 104: <p>
1.172 miod 105:
1.171 ian 106: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
107: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
108: Webb.it took place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
109: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
110: <p>
111:
1.168 miod 112: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
113: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 114: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 115: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 116: had a chance to prove their value.
117: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 118: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 119: <p>
1.168 miod 120:
1.161 millert 121: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
122: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 123: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
124: are available.
1.161 millert 125: <p>
126:
1.163 miod 127: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
128: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
129: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
130: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
131: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
132: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
133: <p>
134:
1.164 millert 135: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
136: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
137: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
138: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
139: <p>
140:
1.152 jakob 141: <h3>2001</h3>
142:
1.160 jufi 143: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
144: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
145: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
146: <p>
147:
148: <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>
149: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
150: <p>
151:
1.158 deraadt 152: <li><strong>
153: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
154: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
155: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
156: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
157: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
158: <p>
159:
1.156 provos 160: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
161: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
162: <p>
163:
164: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
165: Jakob and Itojun were there.
166: <p>
1.158 deraadt 167:
1.150 wvdputte 168: <li><strong>
169: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
170: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 171: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
172: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
173: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 174: <p>
1.137 aaron 175:
176: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 177: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
178: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
179: </strong><br>
180: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
181: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
182: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
183: <p>
184:
185: <li><strong>
186: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
187: </strong><br>
188: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
189: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
190: <p>
191:
192: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 193: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
194: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
195: </strong><br>
196: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
197: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
198: <p>
199:
200: <li><strong>
201: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
202: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
203: </strong><br>
204: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
205: <p>
206:
207: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 208: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
209: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
210: </strong><br>
211: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
212: security community.
213: <p>
214:
215: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 216: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
217: </strong><br>
218: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
219: <p>
220:
221: <li><strong>
222: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
223: </strong><br>
224: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
225: <p>
226:
1.132 louis 227: <h3>2000</h3>
228:
229: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 230: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
231: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
232: </strong><br>
233: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
234: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
235: <p>
236:
237: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 238: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
239: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
240: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
241: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
242: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
243: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 244: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 245: <p>
246:
247: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 248: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
249: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
250: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
251: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 252: <p>
1.4 millert 253:
1.132 louis 254: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
255: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 256: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 257: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 258: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 259: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
260: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
261:
262: <ul>
1.159 miod 263: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
264: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 265: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
266: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
267: </ul>
1.4 millert 268: <p>
1.132 louis 269:
1.7 deraadt 270: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 271: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
272: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
273: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
274: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
275: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
276: mind (drinks afterwards).
277: <p>
278:
279: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 280: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 281: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
282: questions.
1.32 deraadt 283: <p>
1.1 deraadt 284:
1.132 louis 285: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
286: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
287: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 288: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
289: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 290: <p>
291:
1.132 louis 292: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
293: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
294: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
295: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
296: <ul>
297: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
298: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
299: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
300: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
301: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
302: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 303: <p>
1.132 louis 304:
1.10 provos 305: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 306: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
307: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
308: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
309: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
310: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
311: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
312: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
313: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
314: <br>
315: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
316: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
317: <p>
1.32 deraadt 318:
1.132 louis 319: <li><strong>
320: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
321: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
322: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
323: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
324: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
325: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
326: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
327: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
328: and spoke about
329: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
330: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
331: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
332: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 333: <p>
1.132 louis 334:
1.6 deraadt 335: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 336: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
337: LinuxTag 2000,
338: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
339: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
340: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
341: <br>
342: Christian Weisgerber gave a
343: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
344: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 345: <p>
1.1 deraadt 346:
1.6 deraadt 347: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 348: <a name=usenix2000>
349: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 350: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 351: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
352: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
353: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
354: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
355: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
356: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 357: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 358: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
359: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
360: <ul>
361:
362: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
363: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
364: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
365: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
366: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
367: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
368:
369: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
370: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
371: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
372: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
373: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
374: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 375:
1.132 louis 376: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
377: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
378: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
379: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 380: <p>
381:
1.132 louis 382: <li><strong>
383: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
384: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
385: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
386: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
387: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
388: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 389: <p>
1.2 deraadt 390:
1.132 louis 391: <li><strong>
392: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
393: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
394: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
395: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
396: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
397: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
398: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
399: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 400: <p>
1.11 jkatz 401:
1.17 deraadt 402: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 403: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
404: CONVERGENCE 2000.
405: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
406: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
407: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
408: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
409: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
410: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 411: <p>
1.17 deraadt 412:
1.23 niklas 413: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 414: CanSecWest.
415: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
416: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
417: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
418: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
419: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
420: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
421: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
422: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 423: <p>
1.25 deraadt 424:
1.132 louis 425: <li><strong>
426: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
427: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
428: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
429: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
430: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
431: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 432: <p>
1.23 niklas 433:
1.31 deraadt 434: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 435: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
436: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
437: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 438: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 439: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
440: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
441: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
442: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 443: <p>
1.31 deraadt 444:
1.132 louis 445: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 446: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 447: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
448: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
449: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
450: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 451: <p>
452:
1.132 louis 453: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 454:
1.132 louis 455: <li>
456: <strong>
457: The Bazaar.
458: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
459: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
460: firewalls with OpenBSD.
461: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
462: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
463: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
464: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 465: <p>
466:
1.132 louis 467: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 468: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 469: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
470: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
471: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
472: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
473: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
474: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
475: There were many other OpenBSD
476: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
477: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
478:
479: <ul>
480: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
481: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
482: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
483: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
484: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
485: </ul>
486: <p>
487:
488: <li><strong>
489: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
490: IP-dagarna 1999
491: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
492: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
493: <p>
494:
495: <li><strong>
496: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
497: Linux & Open Source Software '99
498: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
499: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
500: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
501: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
502: <p>
503:
504: <li><strong>
505: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
506: Reflections/Projections 1999
507: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
508: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
509: developers from the east coast attended as well.
510: <p>
511:
512: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
513: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
514: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
515: (in swedish)</strong><br>
516: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
517: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
518: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
519: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
520: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
521: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
522: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
523: conference in Stockholm.
524: <p>
525:
526: <li><strong>
527: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
528: AUUG'99.
529: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
530: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
531: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
532: coordinated.
533: <p>
534:
535: <li><strong>
536: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
537: Usenix Security.
538: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
539: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
540: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
541: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
542: significant security roles.
543: <p>
544:
545: <li><strong>
546: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
547: 45th IETF meeting.
548: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
549: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
550: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
551: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 552: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 553: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
554: <p>
1.45 jason 555:
1.132 louis 556: <li><strong>
557: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
558: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
559: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
560: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 561: <p>
1.132 louis 562:
1.46 deraadt 563: <a name=usenix99>
564: <li><strong>
565: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
566: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 567: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 568: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 569: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 570: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
571: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 572: June.)
1.132 louis 573: <br>
1.46 deraadt 574: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 575: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
576:
1.46 deraadt 577: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 578: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 579: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 580: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 581: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
582: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 583: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
584: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 585: <br>
1.66 deraadt 586: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 587: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 588: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 589: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
590: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
591: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 592: <br>
1.66 deraadt 593: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 594: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 595: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
596: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
597: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
598: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
599: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 600: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
601: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 602: <br>
1.66 deraadt 603: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 604: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 605: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
606: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 607: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
608: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 609: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 610: <p>
1.46 deraadt 611:
1.51 deraadt 612: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 613: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
614: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
615: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
616: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
617: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
618: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
619: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
620: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 621: <p>
622:
1.53 jakob 623: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 624: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
625: 44th IETF meeting.
626: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
627: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
628: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 629: <p>
630:
1.132 louis 631: <li><strong>
632: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
633: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
634: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
635: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
636: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
637: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 638: <p>
639:
1.132 louis 640: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 641:
1.132 louis 642: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
643: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
644: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
645: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
646: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 647: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 648: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
649: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
650: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
651: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 652: <p>
653:
1.71 niklas 654: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 655: <a name=lisaboston-98>
656: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
657: 12th Systems Administration Conference
658: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
659: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
660: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
661: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
662: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
663: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
664: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
665: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
666: <br>
667: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
668: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
669: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 670: <p>
671:
1.73 deraadt 672: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 673: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
674: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
675: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
676: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
677: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
678: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 679: <p>
1.73 deraadt 680:
1.75 mickey 681: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 682: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 683: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 684: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
685: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
686: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
687: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
688: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 689: <p>
1.73 deraadt 690:
1.80 deraadt 691: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 692: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
693: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
694: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 695: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 696: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 697: <p>
698:
1.93 louis 699: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 700: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
701: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
702: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
703: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 704: <p>
705:
1.132 louis 706: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
707: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
708: California, USA.</strong></a>
709: <br>
710: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
711: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 712: <p>
713:
1.132 louis 714: <a name=defcon98>
715: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
716: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
717: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
718: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
719: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
720: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
721: <br>
722: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
723: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
724: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
725: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 726: <p>
1.94 deraadt 727:
1.132 louis 728: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
729: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
730: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
731: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
732: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
733: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
734: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 735: <p>
736:
1.101 wvdputte 737: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 738: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
739: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 740: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 741: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
742: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
743: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
744: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
745: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
746: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
747: <br>
748: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
749: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 750: <p>
751:
1.105 wvdputte 752: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 753: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
754: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
755: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
756: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
757: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
758: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 759: <br>
1.132 louis 760: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
761: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 762:
1.132 louis 763: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 764:
1.113 deraadt 765: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 766: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
767: </strong><br>
768: Niels held a
769: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
770: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
771: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 772: <p>
1.132 louis 773:
774: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 775: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 776: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
777: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 778: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 779:
1.132 louis 780: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
781: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
782: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
783: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
784: <br>
785: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 786: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 787: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 788: <p>
789:
1.125 deraadt 790: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 791: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
792: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
793: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
794: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
795: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 796:
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