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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:
1.183 wvdputte 25:
1.152 jakob 26: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 34: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.188 henning 37: <h3>2003</h3>
1.194 ! henning 38: <li><strong><a href= http://www.cebit.de/>CeBIT 2003</a></strong> Friday 14th of March, Hannover, Germany<br>
! 39: You could have found our <a href= "http://www.linux-events.de/LinuxPark/cebit/Specials/openbooth.html">booth</a> in Halle 6, A53/068. Friday, Henning and Markus
! 40: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="/papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
! 41: <p>
! 42:
1.191 dhartmei 43: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong> March 1, Copenhagen<br>
44: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="/papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
45: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
46: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
47: user groups.
48: <p>
49:
1.190 miod 50: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong> February 25 2003, 18:00 MST<br>
51: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
52: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
53: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
54: <p>
55:
1.187 henning 56: <li><strong><a href= http://www.fosdem.org/>FOSDEM 2003</a></strong> February 8 - 9 2003 Brussels<br>
57: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
58: (<a href="/papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
59: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
60: <p>
61:
1.185 miod 62: <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
63: <br>
64: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
65: CD sets and Tshirts.
66: <p>
67:
1.161 millert 68: <h3>2002</h3>
1.184 wvdputte 69: <li><strong><a href= http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/>19c3: the 19th CCC Congress</a></strong> December 27-29 Berlin
70: <br>
71: There was a huge <a href= "http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
72: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
73: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
74: <p>
1.177 jason 75:
1.178 pb 76: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">
77: BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong><br>
1.180 henning 78: took place November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1.181 henning 79: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 80: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 81: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
82: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
83: and Ian Darwin presented a
84: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
85: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 86: <p>
1.178 pb 87:
1.177 jason 88: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
89: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference 3-8 Nov 2002, Philadelphia, USA
90: </a></strong><br>
91: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
92: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
93: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
94: <p>
95:
1.172 miod 96: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
97: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong><br>
98: took place July 9-13, 2002 in Bordeaux, France.
99: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
100: Niels Provos presented his
101: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
102: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 103: <p>
1.172 miod 104:
1.171 ian 105: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">
106: Webb.it 02</a></strong><br>
107: Webb.it took place July 5-7, 2002 in Padova, Italy.
108: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
109: <p>
110:
1.168 miod 111: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
112: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong><br>
1.169 horacio 113: took place May 2-4, 2002 in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
1.168 miod 114: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 115: had a chance to prove their value.
116: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 117: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 118: <p>
1.168 miod 119:
1.161 millert 120: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002, February 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA</a></strong><br>
121: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 122: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
123: are available.
1.161 millert 124: <p>
125:
1.163 miod 126: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002,
127: January 30-February 1, Paris, France</a></strong><br>
128: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
129: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
130: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
131: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
132: <p>
133:
1.164 millert 134: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002, January 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</a></strong><br>
135: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
136: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
137: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
138: <p>
139:
1.152 jakob 140: <h3>2001</h3>
141:
1.160 jufi 142: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001, December 2-7, San Diego, California, USA</a></strong><br>
143: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
144: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
145: <p>
146:
147: <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>
148: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
149: <p>
150:
1.158 deraadt 151: <li><strong>
152: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
153: DISC 2001. November 26 - 29, 2001. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
154: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
155: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
156: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
157: <p>
158:
1.156 provos 159: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe, September 15 2001, Hong Kong, China</a></strong><br>
160: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
161: <p>
162:
163: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
164: Jakob and Itojun were there.
165: <p>
1.158 deraadt 166:
1.150 wvdputte 167: <li><strong>
168: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
169: </strong><br>
1.153 jufi 170: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
171: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
172: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 173: <p>
1.137 aaron 174:
175: <li><strong>
1.148 brian 176: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
177: July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
178: </strong><br>
179: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
180: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
181: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
182: <p>
183:
184: <li><strong>
185: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
186: </strong><br>
187: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
188: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
189: <p>
190:
191: <li><strong>
1.146 krw 192: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
193: Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
194: </strong><br>
195: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
196: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
197: <p>
198:
199: <li><strong>
200: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
201: Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
202: </strong><br>
203: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
204: <p>
205:
206: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 207: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
208: Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
209: </strong><br>
210: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
211: security community.
212: <p>
213:
214: <li><strong>
1.137 aaron 215: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
216: </strong><br>
217: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
218: <p>
219:
220: <li><strong>
221: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
222: </strong><br>
223: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
224: <p>
225:
1.132 louis 226: <h3>2000</h3>
227:
228: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 229: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
230: USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
231: </strong><br>
232: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
233: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
234: <p>
235:
236: <li><strong>
1.133 deraadt 237: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
238: DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
239: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
240: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
241: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
242: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 243: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 244: <p>
245:
246: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 247: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
248: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
249: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
250: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 251: <p>
1.4 millert 252:
1.132 louis 253: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
254: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.159 miod 255: IPsec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
1.132 louis 256: Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
1.159 miod 257: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 258: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
259: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
260:
261: <ul>
1.159 miod 262: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
263: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.132 louis 264: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
265: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
266: </ul>
1.4 millert 267: <p>
1.132 louis 268:
1.7 deraadt 269: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 270: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
271: ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
272: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
273: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
274: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
275: mind (drinks afterwards).
276: <p>
277:
278: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
1.135 jufi 279: October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.132 louis 280: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
281: questions.
1.32 deraadt 282: <p>
1.1 deraadt 283:
1.132 louis 284: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
285: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
286: The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.133 deraadt 287: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
288: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 289: <p>
290:
1.132 louis 291: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
292: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
293: Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
294: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
295: <ul>
296: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
297: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
298: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
299: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
300: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
301: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 302: <p>
1.132 louis 303:
1.10 provos 304: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 305: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
306: Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
307: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
308: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
309: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
310: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
311: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
312: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
313: <br>
314: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
315: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
316: <p>
1.32 deraadt 317:
1.132 louis 318: <li><strong>
319: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
320: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
321: July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
322: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
323: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
324: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
325: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
326: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
327: and spoke about
328: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
329: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
330: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
331: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 332: <p>
1.132 louis 333:
1.6 deraadt 334: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 335: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
336: LinuxTag 2000,
337: June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
338: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
339: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
340: <br>
341: Christian Weisgerber gave a
342: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
343: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 344: <p>
1.1 deraadt 345:
1.6 deraadt 346: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 347: <a name=usenix2000>
348: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.6 deraadt 349: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 350: June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
351: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
352: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
353: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
354: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
355: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 356: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 357: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
358: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
359: <ul>
360:
361: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
362: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
363: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
364: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
365: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
366: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
367:
368: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
369: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
370: by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
371: <a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
372: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
373: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 374:
1.132 louis 375: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
376: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
377: by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
378: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 379: <p>
380:
1.132 louis 381: <li><strong>
382: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
383: OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
384: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
385: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
386: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
387: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 388: <p>
1.2 deraadt 389:
1.132 louis 390: <li><strong>
391: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
392: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
393: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
394: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
395: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
396: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
397: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
398: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 399: <p>
1.11 jkatz 400:
1.17 deraadt 401: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 402: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
403: CONVERGENCE 2000.
404: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
405: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
406: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
407: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
408: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
409: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 410: <p>
1.17 deraadt 411:
1.23 niklas 412: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 413: CanSecWest.
414: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
415: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
416: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
417: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
418: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
419: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
420: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
421: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 422: <p>
1.25 deraadt 423:
1.132 louis 424: <li><strong>
425: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
426: COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
427: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
428: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
429: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
430: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 431: <p>
1.23 niklas 432:
1.31 deraadt 433: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 434: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
435: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
436: February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
1.140 jufi 437: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 438: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
439: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
440: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
441: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 442: <p>
1.31 deraadt 443:
1.132 louis 444: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
1.140 jufi 445: Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
1.132 louis 446: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
447: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
448: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
449: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 450: <p>
451:
1.132 louis 452: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 453:
1.132 louis 454: <li>
455: <strong>
456: The Bazaar.
457: December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
458: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
459: firewalls with OpenBSD.
460: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
461: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
462: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
463: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 464: <p>
465:
1.132 louis 466: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 467: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 468: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
469: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
470: November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
471: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
472: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
473: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
474: There were many other OpenBSD
475: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
476: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
477:
478: <ul>
479: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
480: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
481: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
482: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
483: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
484: </ul>
485: <p>
486:
487: <li><strong>
488: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
489: IP-dagarna 1999
490: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
491: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
492: <p>
493:
494: <li><strong>
495: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
496: Linux & Open Source Software '99
497: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
498: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
499: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
500: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
501: <p>
502:
503: <li><strong>
504: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
505: Reflections/Projections 1999
506: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
507: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
508: developers from the east coast attended as well.
509: <p>
510:
511: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
512: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
513: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
514: (in swedish)</strong><br>
515: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
516: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
517: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
518: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
519: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
520: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
521: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
522: conference in Stockholm.
523: <p>
524:
525: <li><strong>
526: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
527: AUUG'99.
528: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
529: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
530: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
531: coordinated.
532: <p>
533:
534: <li><strong>
535: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
536: Usenix Security.
537: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
538: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
539: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
540: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
541: significant security roles.
542: <p>
543:
544: <li><strong>
545: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
546: 45th IETF meeting.
547: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
548: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
549: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
550: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 551: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 552: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
553: <p>
1.45 jason 554:
1.132 louis 555: <li><strong>
556: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
557: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
558: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
559: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 560: <p>
1.132 louis 561:
1.46 deraadt 562: <a name=usenix99>
563: <li><strong>
564: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
565: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 566: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 567: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 568: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 569: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
570: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 571: June.)
1.132 louis 572: <br>
1.46 deraadt 573: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 574: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
575:
1.46 deraadt 576: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 577: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 578: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 579: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 580: by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
581: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.49 deraadt 582: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
583: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 584: <br>
1.66 deraadt 585: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 586: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.140 jufi 587: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.66 deraadt 588: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
589: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
590: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 591: <br>
1.66 deraadt 592: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 593: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 594: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
595: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
596: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
597: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
598: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.50 deraadt 599: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
600: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 601: <br>
1.66 deraadt 602: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 603: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.66 deraadt 604: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
605: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.47 deraadt 606: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
607: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 608: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 609: <p>
1.46 deraadt 610:
1.51 deraadt 611: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 612: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
613: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
614: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
615: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
616: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
617: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
618: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
619: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 620: <p>
621:
1.53 jakob 622: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 623: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
624: 44th IETF meeting.
625: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
626: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
627: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 628: <p>
629:
1.132 louis 630: <li><strong>
631: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
632: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
633: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
634: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
635: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
636: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 637: <p>
638:
1.132 louis 639: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 640:
1.132 louis 641: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
642: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
643: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
644: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
645: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 646: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 647: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
648: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
649: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
650: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 651: <p>
652:
1.71 niklas 653: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 654: <a name=lisaboston-98>
655: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
656: 12th Systems Administration Conference
657: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
658: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
659: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
660: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
661: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
662: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
663: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
664: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
665: <br>
666: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
667: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
668: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 669: <p>
670:
1.73 deraadt 671: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 672: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
673: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
674: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
675: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
676: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
677: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 678: <p>
1.73 deraadt 679:
1.75 mickey 680: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 681: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 682: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 683: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
684: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
685: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
686: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
687: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 688: <p>
1.73 deraadt 689:
1.80 deraadt 690: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 691: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
692: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
693: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 694: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 695: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 696: <p>
697:
1.93 louis 698: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 699: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
700: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
701: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
702: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 703: <p>
704:
1.132 louis 705: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
706: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
707: California, USA.</strong></a>
708: <br>
709: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
710: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 711: <p>
712:
1.132 louis 713: <a name=defcon98>
714: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
715: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
716: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
717: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
718: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
719: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
720: <br>
721: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
722: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
723: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
724: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 725: <p>
1.94 deraadt 726:
1.132 louis 727: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
728: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
729: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
730: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
731: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
732: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
733: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 734: <p>
735:
1.101 wvdputte 736: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 737: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
738: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 739: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 740: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
741: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
742: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
743: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
744: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
745: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
746: <br>
747: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
748: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 749: <p>
750:
1.105 wvdputte 751: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 752: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
753: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
754: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
755: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
756: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
757: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 758: <br>
1.132 louis 759: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
760: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 761:
1.132 louis 762: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 763:
1.113 deraadt 764: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 765: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
766: </strong><br>
767: Niels held a
768: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
769: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
770: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 771: <p>
1.132 louis 772:
773: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 774: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 775: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
776: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 777: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 778:
1.132 louis 779: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
780: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
781: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
782: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
783: <br>
784: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 785: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 786: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 787: <p>
788:
1.125 deraadt 789: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 790: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
791: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
792: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
793: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
794: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 795:
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