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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:
1.198 wvdputte 25: <dl>
1.207 wvdputte 26: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
27: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
28: 24, 25 and 26 June, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
29: There will be an OpenBSD booth with developers.
30: <p>
1.204 jason 31: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
32: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
33: Aug 4-8, 2003. Washington, DC, USA.<br>
34: Some OpenBSD developers will be there.
35: <p>
1.208 ! jose 36: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
! 37: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>
! 38: Sep 8-12, 2003. San Mateo, California.<br>
! 39: OpenBSD will be represented in the BSD Status Report, and David
! 40: Rosenthal is scheduled to give a talk on an OpenBSD based security
! 41: appliance.
! 42: <p>
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1.152 jakob 45: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 53: <h2>Past events:</h2>
54: <dl>
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1.188 henning 56: <h3>2003</h3>
1.195 deraadt 57:
1.202 jason 58: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
59: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">
60: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
61: Jun 9-14, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
62: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
63: <ul>
64: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework.<br>
65: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.205 deraadt 66: Angelos D. Keromytis,
67: Jason L. Wright, and
68: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 69: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
70: </ul>
71: <p>
72:
1.201 deraadt 73: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
74: May 9 - 19, Calgary, Canada<br>
75: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
76: session.
77: <p>
78:
1.203 jason 79: <li><strong><a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
80: May 9-11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
81: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
82: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
83: <p>
84:
1.201 deraadt 85: <li><strong><a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
86: Apr 10, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 87: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 88: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 89: <p>
90:
1.201 deraadt 91: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
92: Mar 14, Hannover, Germany<br>
93: 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
1.196 matthieu 94: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 95: <p>
96:
1.201 deraadt 97: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
98: Mar 1, Copenhagen<br>
1.196 matthieu 99: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1.191 dhartmei 100: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
101: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
102: user groups.
103: <p>
104:
1.201 deraadt 105: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
106: Feb 25, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 107: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
108: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
109: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
110: <p>
111:
1.201 deraadt 112: <li><strong><a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
113: Feb 8 - 9, Brussels<br>,
1.187 henning 114: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
1.196 matthieu 115: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 116: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
117: <p>
118:
1.201 deraadt 119: <li><strong><a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
120: Feb 4-6, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 121: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
122: CD sets and Tshirts.
123: <p>
124:
1.161 millert 125: <h3>2002</h3>
1.201 deraadt 126: <li><strong><a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC Congress</a></strong>,
127: Dec 27-29, Berlin<br>
128: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1.184 wvdputte 129: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
130: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
131: <p>
1.177 jason 132:
1.201 deraadt 133: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
134: November 15-17, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 135: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 136: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 137: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
138: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
139: and Ian Darwin presented a
140: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
141: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 142: <p>
1.178 pb 143:
1.177 jason 144: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
1.201 deraadt 145: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
146: Nov 3-8, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 147: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
148: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
149: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
150: <p>
151:
1.172 miod 152: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
1.201 deraadt 153: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
154: July 9-13, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 155: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
156: Niels Provos presented his
157: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
158: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 159: <p>
1.172 miod 160:
1.201 deraadt 161: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
162: July 5-7, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 163: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
164: <p>
165:
1.168 miod 166: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
1.201 deraadt 167: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong>
168: May 2-4, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.168 miod 169: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 170: had a chance to prove their value.
171: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 172: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 173: <p>
1.168 miod 174:
1.201 deraadt 175: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
176: Feb 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 177: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 178: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
179: are available.
1.161 millert 180: <p>
181:
1.201 deraadt 182: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
183: Jan 30-Feb 1, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 184: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
185: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
186: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
187: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
188: <p>
189:
1.201 deraadt 190: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
191: Jan 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 192: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
193: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
194: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
195: <p>
196:
1.152 jakob 197: <h3>2001</h3>
198:
1.201 deraadt 199: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
200: Dec 2-7, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 201: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
202: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
203: <p>
204:
1.201 deraadt 205: <li><strong><a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
206: Dec 9-14, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 207: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
208: <p>
209:
1.158 deraadt 210: <li><strong>
211: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
1.201 deraadt 212: DISC 2001</a></strong>,
213: Nov 26 - 29, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 214: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
215: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
216: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
217: <p>
218:
1.201 deraadt 219: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
220: Sep 15, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 221: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
222: <p>
223:
1.201 deraadt 224: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
225: Aug 13-18, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 226: Jakob and Itojun were there.
227: <p>
1.158 deraadt 228:
1.150 wvdputte 229: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 230: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001</a></strong>,
231: Aug, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 232: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
233: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
234: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 235: <p>
1.137 aaron 236:
237: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 238: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference</a></strong>,
239: Jul 23-27, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 240: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
241: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
242: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
243: <p>
244:
245: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 246: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
247: Jul 13-15, Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 248: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
249: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
250: <p>
251:
252: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 253: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
254: Jun 26-29, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 255: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
256: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
257: <p>
258:
259: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 260: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
261: Jun 25-30, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 262: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
263: <p>
264:
265: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 266: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 267: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
268: May 16-18, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 269: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
270: security community.
271: <p>
272:
273: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 274: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
275: Feb 3-4, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 276: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
277: <p>
278:
279: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 280: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
281: Feb 1-2, Paris, France<br>
1.137 aaron 282: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
283: <p>
284:
1.132 louis 285: <h3>2000</h3>
286:
287: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 288: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
1.201 deraadt 289: USENIX Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
290: Dec 3-8, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 291: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
292: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
293: <p>
294:
295: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 296: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000.</a></strong>,
297: Nov 26 - Dec 1, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 298: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
299: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
300: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
301: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 302: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 303: <p>
304:
305: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 306: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
1.201 deraadt 307: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000</a></strong>,
308: Nov 9, Ede, NL<br>
1.132 louis 309: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
310: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 311: <p>
1.4 millert 312:
1.132 louis 313: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
314: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.201 deraadt 315: IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a></strong>,
316: Oct 24-27, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 317: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 318: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
319: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
320:
321: <ul>
1.159 miod 322: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
323: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.205 deraadt 324: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 325: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
326: </ul>
1.4 millert 327: <p>
1.132 louis 328:
1.7 deraadt 329: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 330: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
331: Oct 23-25, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 332: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
333: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
334: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
335: mind (drinks afterwards).
336: <p>
337:
1.201 deraadt 338: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
339: Oct 18-20, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 340: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
341: questions.
1.32 deraadt 342: <p>
1.1 deraadt 343:
1.132 louis 344: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
345: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
1.201 deraadt 346: The Open Source Revolution</a></strong>,
347: Oct 5, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 348: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
349: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 350: <p>
351:
1.132 louis 352: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
353: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
1.201 deraadt 354: Usenix Security</a></strong>,
355: Aug 14-17, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 356: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
357: <ul>
358: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
359: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 360: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 361: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
362: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
363: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 364: <p>
1.132 louis 365:
1.10 provos 366: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 367: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
368: Jul 28-30, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 369: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
370: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
371: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
372: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
373: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
374: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
375: <br>
376: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
377: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
378: <p>
1.32 deraadt 379:
1.132 louis 380: <li><strong>
381: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
382: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
1.201 deraadt 383: </a></strong>,
384: Jul 17-20, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 385: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
386: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
387: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
388: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
389: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
390: and spoke about
391: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
392: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
393: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
394: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 395: <p>
1.132 louis 396:
1.6 deraadt 397: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 398: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
399: Jun 29-Jul 2, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 400: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
401: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
402: <br>
403: Christian Weisgerber gave a
404: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
405: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 406: <p>
1.1 deraadt 407:
1.6 deraadt 408: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 409: <a name=usenix2000>
410: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.201 deraadt 411: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
412: Jun 18-23, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 413: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
414: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
415: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
416: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
417: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 418: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 419: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
420: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
421: <ul>
422:
423: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
424: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 425: by Angelos D. Keromytis,
426: Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 427: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
428: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
429:
430: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
431: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 432: by Angelos D. Keromytis,
433: Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 434: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
435: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 436:
1.132 louis 437: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
438: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 439: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 440: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 441: <p>
442:
1.132 louis 443: <li><strong>
444: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
1.201 deraadt 445: OpenBSD: The Open Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
446: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 447: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
448: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
449: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 450: <p>
1.2 deraadt 451:
1.132 louis 452: <li><strong>
453: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
454: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
1.201 deraadt 455: </a></strong>,
456: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 457: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
458: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
459: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
460: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
461: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 462: <p>
1.11 jkatz 463:
1.17 deraadt 464: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 465: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
466: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 467: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
468: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
469: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
470: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
471: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 472: <p>
1.17 deraadt 473:
1.23 niklas 474: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 475: CanSecWest.
476: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
477: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
478: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
479: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
480: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
481: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
482: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
483: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 484: <p>
1.25 deraadt 485:
1.132 louis 486: <li><strong>
487: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 488: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
489: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.132 louis 490: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
491: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
492: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
493: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 494: <p>
1.23 niklas 495:
1.31 deraadt 496: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 497: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
1.201 deraadt 498: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
499: Feb 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 500: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 501: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
502: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
503: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
504: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 505: <p>
1.31 deraadt 506:
1.201 deraadt 507: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
508: Feb 3, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 509: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
510: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
511: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
512: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 513: <p>
514:
1.132 louis 515: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 516:
1.132 louis 517: <li>
1.201 deraadt 518: <strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
519: Dec 14-16, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 520: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
521: firewalls with OpenBSD.
522: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
523: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
524: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
525: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 526: <p>
527:
1.132 louis 528: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 529: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 530: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
1.201 deraadt 531: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
532: Nov 7-12, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 533: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
534: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
535: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
536: There were many other OpenBSD
537: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
538: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
539:
540: <ul>
541: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
542: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 543: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.132 louis 544: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
545: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
546: </ul>
547: <p>
548:
549: <li><strong>
550: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
1.201 deraadt 551: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
552: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 553: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
554: <p>
555:
556: <li><strong>
557: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
558: Linux & Open Source Software '99
559: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
560: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
561: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
562: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
563: <p>
564:
565: <li><strong>
566: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
567: Reflections/Projections 1999
568: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
569: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
570: developers from the east coast attended as well.
571: <p>
572:
573: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
574: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
575: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
576: (in swedish)</strong><br>
577: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
578: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
579: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
580: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
581: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
582: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
583: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
584: conference in Stockholm.
585: <p>
586:
587: <li><strong>
588: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
589: AUUG'99.
590: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
591: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
592: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
593: coordinated.
594: <p>
595:
596: <li><strong>
597: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
598: Usenix Security.
599: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
600: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
601: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
602: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
603: significant security roles.
604: <p>
605:
606: <li><strong>
607: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
608: 45th IETF meeting.
609: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
610: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
611: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
612: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 613: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 614: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
615: <p>
1.45 jason 616:
1.132 louis 617: <li><strong>
618: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
619: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
620: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
621: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 622: <p>
1.132 louis 623:
1.46 deraadt 624: <a name=usenix99>
625: <li><strong>
626: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
627: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 628: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 629: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 630: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 631: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
632: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 633: June.)
1.132 louis 634: <br>
1.46 deraadt 635: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 636: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
637:
1.46 deraadt 638: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 639: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 640: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 641: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 642: by Charles D. Cranor,
1.205 deraadt 643: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.49 deraadt 644: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
645: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 646: <br>
1.66 deraadt 647: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 648: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 649: by Niels Provos,
1.205 deraadt 650: David Mazieres.<br>
1.66 deraadt 651: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
652: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 653: <br>
1.66 deraadt 654: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 655: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 656: by Theo de Raadt,
1.205 deraadt 657: Niklas Hallqvist,
658: Artur Grabowski,
659: Angelos D. Keromytis,
660: Niels Provos.<br>
1.50 deraadt 661: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
662: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 663: <br>
1.66 deraadt 664: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 665: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 666: by Todd C. Miller,
1.205 deraadt 667: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.47 deraadt 668: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
669: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 670: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 671: <p>
1.46 deraadt 672:
1.51 deraadt 673: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 674: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
675: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
676: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
677: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
678: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
679: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
680: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
681: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 682: <p>
683:
1.53 jakob 684: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 685: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
686: 44th IETF meeting.
687: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
688: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
689: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 690: <p>
691:
1.132 louis 692: <li><strong>
693: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
694: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
695: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
696: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
697: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
698: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 699: <p>
700:
1.132 louis 701: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 702:
1.132 louis 703: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
704: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
705: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
706: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
707: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 708: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 709: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
710: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
711: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
712: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 713: <p>
714:
1.71 niklas 715: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 716: <a name=lisaboston-98>
717: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
718: 12th Systems Administration Conference
719: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
720: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
721: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
722: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
723: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
724: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
725: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
726: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
727: <br>
728: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
729: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
730: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 731: <p>
732:
1.73 deraadt 733: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 734: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
735: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
736: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
737: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
738: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
739: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 740: <p>
1.73 deraadt 741:
1.75 mickey 742: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 743: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 744: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 745: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
746: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
747: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
748: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
749: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 750: <p>
1.73 deraadt 751:
1.80 deraadt 752: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 753: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
754: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
755: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 756: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 757: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 758: <p>
759:
1.93 louis 760: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 761: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
762: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
763: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
764: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 765: <p>
766:
1.132 louis 767: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
768: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
769: California, USA.</strong></a>
770: <br>
771: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
772: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 773: <p>
774:
1.132 louis 775: <a name=defcon98>
776: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
777: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
778: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
779: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
780: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
781: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
782: <br>
783: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
784: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
785: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
786: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 787: <p>
1.94 deraadt 788:
1.132 louis 789: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
790: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
791: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
792: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
793: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
794: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
795: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 796: <p>
797:
1.101 wvdputte 798: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 799: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
800: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 801: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 802: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
803: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
804: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
805: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
806: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
807: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
808: <br>
809: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
810: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 811: <p>
812:
1.105 wvdputte 813: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 814: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
815: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
816: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
817: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
818: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
819: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 820: <br>
1.132 louis 821: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
822: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 823:
1.132 louis 824: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 825:
1.113 deraadt 826: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 827: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
828: </strong><br>
829: Niels held a
830: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
831: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
832: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 833: <p>
1.132 louis 834:
835: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 836: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 837: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
838: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 839: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 840:
1.132 louis 841: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
842: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
843: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
844: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
845: <br>
846: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 847: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 848: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 849: <p>
850:
1.125 deraadt 851: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 852: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
853: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
854: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
855: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
856: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 857:
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