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1.78 louis 15: <h2><font color=#e00000>Events</font></h2>
16: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
17: give papers, and organise "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
1.165 ian 18: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
19: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 21: <hr>
22:
23: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 24:
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1.75 mickey 26:
1.183 wvdputte 27:
28: <h3>2003</h3>
1.192 ! wvdputte 29: <li><strong><a href= http://www.cebit.de/>CeBIT 2003</a></strong> Friday 14th of May Hannover Germany<br>
! 30: You can find our <a href= "http://www.linux-events.de/LinuxPark/cebit/Specials/openbooth.html">booth</a> in Halle 6, A53/068, that Friday Henning and Markus
! 31: will give a talk on OpenSSH
1.152 jakob 32: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 42: <h2>Past events:</h2>
43: <dl>
44:
1.188 henning 45: <h3>2003</h3>
1.191 dhartmei 46: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong> March 1, Copenhagen<br>
47: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="/papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
48: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
49: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
50: user groups.
51: <p>
52:
1.190 miod 53: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong> February 25 2003, 18:00 MST<br>
54: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
55: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
56: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
57: <p>
58:
1.187 henning 59: <li><strong><a href= http://www.fosdem.org/>FOSDEM 2003</a></strong> February 8 - 9 2003 Brussels<br>
60: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
61: (<a href="/papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
62: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
63: <p>
64:
1.185 miod 65: <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
66: <br>
67: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
68: CD sets and Tshirts.
69: <p>
70:
1.161 millert 71: <h3>2002</h3>
1.184 wvdputte 72: <li><strong><a href= http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/>19c3: the 19th CCC Congress</a></strong> December 27-29 Berlin
73: <br>
74: There was a huge <a href= "http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
75: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
76: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
77: <p>
1.177 jason 78:
1.178 pb 79: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">
80: BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong><br>
1.180 henning 81: took place November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1.181 henning 82: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 83: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 84: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
85: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
86: and Ian Darwin presented a
87: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
88: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 89: <p>
1.178 pb 90:
1.177 jason 91: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
92: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference 3-8 Nov 2002, Philadelphia, USA
93: </a></strong><br>
94: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
95: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
96: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
97: <p>
98:
1.172 miod 99: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
100: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
101: took place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
102: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
103: Niels Provos presented his
104: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
105: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 106: <p>
1.172 miod 107:
1.171 ian 108: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
109: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
110: Webb.it took place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
111: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
112: <p>
113:
1.168 miod 114: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
115: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 116: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 117: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 118: had a chance to prove their value.
119: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 120: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 121: <p>
1.168 miod 122:
1.161 millert 123: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
124: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 125: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
126: are available.
1.161 millert 127: <p>
128:
1.163 miod 129: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
130: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
131: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
132: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
133: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
134: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
135: <p>
136:
1.164 millert 137: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
138: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
139: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
140: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
141: <p>
142:
1.152 jakob 143: <h3>2001</h3>
144:
1.160 jufi 145: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
146: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
147: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
148: <p>
149:
150: <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>
151: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
152: <p>
153:
1.158 deraadt 154: <li><strong>
155: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
156: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
157: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
158: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
159: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
160: <p>
161:
1.156 provos 162: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
163: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
164: <p>
165:
166: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
167: Jakob and Itojun were there.
168: <p>
1.158 deraadt 169:
1.150 wvdputte 170: <li><strong>
171: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
172: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 173: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
174: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
175: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 176: <p>
1.137 aaron 177:
178: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 179: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
180: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
181: </strong><br>
182: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
183: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
184: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
185: <p>
186:
187: <li><strong>
188: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
189: </strong><br>
190: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
191: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
192: <p>
193:
194: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 195: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
196: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
197: </strong><br>
198: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
199: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
200: <p>
201:
202: <li><strong>
203: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
204: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
205: </strong><br>
206: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
207: <p>
208:
209: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 210: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
211: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
212: </strong><br>
213: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
214: security community.
215: <p>
216:
217: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 218: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
219: </strong><br>
220: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
221: <p>
222:
223: <li><strong>
224: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
225: </strong><br>
226: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
227: <p>
228:
1.132 louis 229: <h3>2000</h3>
230:
231: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 232: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
233: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
234: </strong><br>
235: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
236: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
237: <p>
238:
239: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 240: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
241: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
242: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
243: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
244: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
245: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 246: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 247: <p>
248:
249: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 250: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
251: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
252: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
253: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 254: <p>
1.4 millert 255:
1.132 louis 256: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
257: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 258: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 259: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 260: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 261: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
262: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
263:
264: <ul>
1.159 miod 265: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
266: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 267: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
268: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
269: </ul>
1.4 millert 270: <p>
1.132 louis 271:
1.7 deraadt 272: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 273: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
274: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
275: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
276: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
277: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
278: mind (drinks afterwards).
279: <p>
280:
281: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 282: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 283: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
284: questions.
1.32 deraadt 285: <p>
1.1 deraadt 286:
1.132 louis 287: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
288: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
289: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 290: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
291: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 292: <p>
293:
1.132 louis 294: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
295: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
296: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
297: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
298: <ul>
299: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
300: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
301: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
302: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
303: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
304: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 305: <p>
1.132 louis 306:
1.10 provos 307: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 308: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
309: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
310: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
311: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
312: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
313: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
314: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
315: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
316: <br>
317: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
318: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
319: <p>
1.32 deraadt 320:
1.132 louis 321: <li><strong>
322: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
323: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
324: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
325: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
326: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
327: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
328: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
329: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
330: and spoke about
331: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
332: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
333: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
334: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 335: <p>
1.132 louis 336:
1.6 deraadt 337: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 338: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
339: LinuxTag 2000,
340: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
341: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
342: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
343: <br>
344: Christian Weisgerber gave a
345: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
346: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 347: <p>
1.1 deraadt 348:
1.6 deraadt 349: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 350: <a name=usenix2000>
351: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 352: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 353: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
354: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
355: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
356: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
357: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
358: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 359: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 360: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
361: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
362: <ul>
363:
364: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
365: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
366: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
367: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
368: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
369: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
370:
371: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
372: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
373: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
374: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
375: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
376: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 377:
1.132 louis 378: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
379: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
380: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
381: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 382: <p>
383:
1.132 louis 384: <li><strong>
385: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
386: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
387: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
388: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
389: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
390: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 391: <p>
1.2 deraadt 392:
1.132 louis 393: <li><strong>
394: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
395: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
396: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
397: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
398: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
399: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
400: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
401: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 402: <p>
1.11 jkatz 403:
1.17 deraadt 404: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 405: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
406: CONVERGENCE 2000.
407: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
408: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
409: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
410: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
411: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
412: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 413: <p>
1.17 deraadt 414:
1.23 niklas 415: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 416: CanSecWest.
417: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
418: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
419: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
420: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
421: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
422: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
423: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
424: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 425: <p>
1.25 deraadt 426:
1.132 louis 427: <li><strong>
428: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
429: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
430: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
431: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
432: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
433: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 434: <p>
1.23 niklas 435:
1.31 deraadt 436: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 437: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
438: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
439: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 440: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 441: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
442: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
443: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
444: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 445: <p>
1.31 deraadt 446:
1.132 louis 447: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 448: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 449: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
450: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
451: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
452: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 453: <p>
454:
1.132 louis 455: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 456:
1.132 louis 457: <li>
458: <strong>
459: The Bazaar.
460: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
461: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
462: firewalls with OpenBSD.
463: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
464: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
465: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
466: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 467: <p>
468:
1.132 louis 469: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 470: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 471: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
472: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
473: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
474: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
475: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
476: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
477: There were many other OpenBSD
478: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
479: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
480:
481: <ul>
482: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
483: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
484: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
485: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
486: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
487: </ul>
488: <p>
489:
490: <li><strong>
491: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
492: IP-dagarna 1999
493: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
494: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
495: <p>
496:
497: <li><strong>
498: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
499: Linux & Open Source Software '99
500: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
501: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
502: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
503: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
504: <p>
505:
506: <li><strong>
507: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
508: Reflections/Projections 1999
509: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
510: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
511: developers from the east coast attended as well.
512: <p>
513:
514: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
515: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
516: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
517: (in swedish)</strong><br>
518: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
519: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
520: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
521: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
522: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
523: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
524: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
525: conference in Stockholm.
526: <p>
527:
528: <li><strong>
529: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
530: AUUG'99.
531: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
532: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
533: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
534: coordinated.
535: <p>
536:
537: <li><strong>
538: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
539: Usenix Security.
540: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
541: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
542: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
543: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
544: significant security roles.
545: <p>
546:
547: <li><strong>
548: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
549: 45th IETF meeting.
550: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
551: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
552: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
553: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 554: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 555: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
556: <p>
1.45 jason 557:
1.132 louis 558: <li><strong>
559: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
560: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
561: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
562: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 563: <p>
1.132 louis 564:
1.46 deraadt 565: <a name=usenix99>
566: <li><strong>
567: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
568: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 569: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 570: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 571: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 572: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
573: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 574: June.)
1.132 louis 575: <br>
1.46 deraadt 576: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 577: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
578:
1.46 deraadt 579: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 580: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 581: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 582: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 583: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
584: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 585: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
586: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 587: <br>
1.66 deraadt 588: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 589: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 590: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 591: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
592: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
593: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 594: <br>
1.66 deraadt 595: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 596: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 597: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
598: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
599: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
600: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
601: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 602: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
603: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 604: <br>
1.66 deraadt 605: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 606: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 607: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
608: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 609: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
610: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 611: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 612: <p>
1.46 deraadt 613:
1.51 deraadt 614: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 615: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
616: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
617: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
618: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
619: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
620: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
621: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
622: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 623: <p>
624:
1.53 jakob 625: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 626: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
627: 44th IETF meeting.
628: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
629: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
630: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 631: <p>
632:
1.132 louis 633: <li><strong>
634: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
635: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
636: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
637: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
638: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
639: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 640: <p>
641:
1.132 louis 642: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 643:
1.132 louis 644: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
645: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
646: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
647: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
648: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 649: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 650: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
651: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
652: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
653: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 654: <p>
655:
1.71 niklas 656: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 657: <a name=lisaboston-98>
658: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
659: 12th Systems Administration Conference
660: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
661: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
662: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
663: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
664: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
665: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
666: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
667: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
668: <br>
669: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
670: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
671: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 672: <p>
673:
1.73 deraadt 674: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 675: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
676: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
677: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
678: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
679: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
680: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 681: <p>
1.73 deraadt 682:
1.75 mickey 683: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 684: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 685: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 686: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
687: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
688: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
689: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
690: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 691: <p>
1.73 deraadt 692:
1.80 deraadt 693: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 694: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
695: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
696: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 697: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 698: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 699: <p>
700:
1.93 louis 701: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 702: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
703: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
704: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
705: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 706: <p>
707:
1.132 louis 708: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
709: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
710: California, USA.</strong></a>
711: <br>
712: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
713: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 714: <p>
715:
1.132 louis 716: <a name=defcon98>
717: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
718: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
719: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
720: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
721: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
722: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
723: <br>
724: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
725: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
726: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
727: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 728: <p>
1.94 deraadt 729:
1.132 louis 730: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
731: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
732: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
733: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
734: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
735: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
736: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 737: <p>
738:
1.101 wvdputte 739: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 740: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
741: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 742: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 743: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
744: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
745: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
746: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
747: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
748: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
749: <br>
750: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
751: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 752: <p>
753:
1.105 wvdputte 754: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 755: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
756: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
757: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
758: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
759: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
760: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 761: <br>
1.132 louis 762: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
763: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 764:
1.132 louis 765: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 766:
1.113 deraadt 767: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 768: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
769: </strong><br>
770: Niels held a
771: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
772: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
773: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 774: <p>
1.132 louis 775:
776: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 777: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 778: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
779: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 780: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 781:
1.132 louis 782: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
783: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
784: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
785: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
786: <br>
787: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 788: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 789: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 790: <p>
791:
1.125 deraadt 792: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 793: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
794: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
795: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
796: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
797: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 798:
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