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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>
1.209 ! wvdputte 26: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
! 27: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
! 28: July 9 - 12, Metz France<br>
! 29: Matthieu Herrb is giving <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/program/view_topic.php?topic_id=18#lecture31">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There will
! 30: also be an OpenBSD booth with developers.
! 31: <p>
! 32: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
! 33: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
! 34: July 10 - 13, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
! 35: You can find our OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth in section B2 of the main exhibit.
! 36: <p>
! 37: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
! 38: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
! 39: August 7 - 10, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
! 40: There will be a huge OpenBSD village, bring your own tent or stay at our dump.
! 41: Bring weird hardware. Sunbathe. Get drunk. Anything but sleep.
1.207 wvdputte 42: <p>
1.204 jason 43: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
44: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
45: Aug 4-8, 2003. Washington, DC, USA.<br>
46: Some OpenBSD developers will be there.
47: <p>
1.208 jose 48: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
49: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>
50: Sep 8-12, 2003. San Mateo, California.<br>
51: OpenBSD will be represented in the BSD Status Report, and David
52: Rosenthal is scheduled to give a talk on an OpenBSD based security
53: appliance.
54: <p>
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1.183 wvdputte 56:
1.152 jakob 57: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 65: <h2>Past events:</h2>
66: <dl>
67:
1.188 henning 68: <h3>2003</h3>
1.209 ! wvdputte 69: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
! 70: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
! 71: 24, 25 and 26 June, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
! 72: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
! 73: <p>
1.195 deraadt 74:
1.202 jason 75: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
76: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">
77: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
78: Jun 9-14, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
79: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
80: <ul>
81: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework.<br>
82: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.205 deraadt 83: Angelos D. Keromytis,
84: Jason L. Wright, and
85: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 86: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
87: </ul>
88: <p>
89:
1.201 deraadt 90: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
91: May 9 - 19, Calgary, Canada<br>
92: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
93: session.
94: <p>
95:
1.203 jason 96: <li><strong><a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
97: May 9-11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
98: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
99: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
100: <p>
101:
1.201 deraadt 102: <li><strong><a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
103: Apr 10, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 104: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 105: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 106: <p>
107:
1.201 deraadt 108: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
109: Mar 14, Hannover, Germany<br>
110: 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 111: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 112: <p>
113:
1.201 deraadt 114: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
115: Mar 1, Copenhagen<br>
1.196 matthieu 116: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1.191 dhartmei 117: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
118: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
119: user groups.
120: <p>
121:
1.201 deraadt 122: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
123: Feb 25, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 124: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
125: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
126: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
127: <p>
128:
1.201 deraadt 129: <li><strong><a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
130: Feb 8 - 9, Brussels<br>,
1.187 henning 131: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
1.196 matthieu 132: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 133: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
134: <p>
135:
1.201 deraadt 136: <li><strong><a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
137: Feb 4-6, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 138: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
139: CD sets and Tshirts.
140: <p>
141:
1.161 millert 142: <h3>2002</h3>
1.201 deraadt 143: <li><strong><a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC Congress</a></strong>,
144: Dec 27-29, Berlin<br>
145: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1.184 wvdputte 146: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
147: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
148: <p>
1.177 jason 149:
1.201 deraadt 150: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
151: November 15-17, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 152: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 153: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 154: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
155: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
156: and Ian Darwin presented a
157: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
158: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 159: <p>
1.178 pb 160:
1.177 jason 161: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
1.201 deraadt 162: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
163: Nov 3-8, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 164: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
165: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
166: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
167: <p>
168:
1.172 miod 169: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
1.201 deraadt 170: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
171: July 9-13, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 172: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
173: Niels Provos presented his
174: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
175: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 176: <p>
1.172 miod 177:
1.201 deraadt 178: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
179: July 5-7, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 180: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
181: <p>
182:
1.168 miod 183: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
1.201 deraadt 184: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong>
185: May 2-4, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.168 miod 186: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 187: had a chance to prove their value.
188: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 189: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 190: <p>
1.168 miod 191:
1.201 deraadt 192: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
193: Feb 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 194: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 195: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
196: are available.
1.161 millert 197: <p>
198:
1.201 deraadt 199: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
200: Jan 30-Feb 1, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 201: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
202: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
203: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
204: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
205: <p>
206:
1.201 deraadt 207: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
208: Jan 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 209: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
210: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
211: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
212: <p>
213:
1.152 jakob 214: <h3>2001</h3>
215:
1.201 deraadt 216: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
217: Dec 2-7, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 218: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
219: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
220: <p>
221:
1.201 deraadt 222: <li><strong><a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
223: Dec 9-14, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 224: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
225: <p>
226:
1.158 deraadt 227: <li><strong>
228: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
1.201 deraadt 229: DISC 2001</a></strong>,
230: Nov 26 - 29, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 231: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
232: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
233: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
234: <p>
235:
1.201 deraadt 236: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
237: Sep 15, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 238: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
239: <p>
240:
1.201 deraadt 241: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
242: Aug 13-18, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 243: Jakob and Itojun were there.
244: <p>
1.158 deraadt 245:
1.150 wvdputte 246: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 247: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001</a></strong>,
248: Aug, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 249: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
250: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
251: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 252: <p>
1.137 aaron 253:
254: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 255: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference</a></strong>,
256: Jul 23-27, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 257: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
258: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
259: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
260: <p>
261:
262: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 263: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
264: Jul 13-15, Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 265: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
266: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
267: <p>
268:
269: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 270: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
271: Jun 26-29, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 272: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
273: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
274: <p>
275:
276: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 277: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
278: Jun 25-30, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 279: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
280: <p>
281:
282: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 283: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 284: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
285: May 16-18, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 286: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
287: security community.
288: <p>
289:
290: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 291: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
292: Feb 3-4, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 293: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
294: <p>
295:
296: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 297: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
298: Feb 1-2, Paris, France<br>
1.137 aaron 299: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
300: <p>
301:
1.132 louis 302: <h3>2000</h3>
303:
304: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 305: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
1.201 deraadt 306: USENIX Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
307: Dec 3-8, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 308: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
309: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
310: <p>
311:
312: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 313: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000.</a></strong>,
314: Nov 26 - Dec 1, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 315: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
316: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
317: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
318: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 319: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 320: <p>
321:
322: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 323: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
1.201 deraadt 324: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000</a></strong>,
325: Nov 9, Ede, NL<br>
1.132 louis 326: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
327: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 328: <p>
1.4 millert 329:
1.132 louis 330: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
331: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.201 deraadt 332: IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a></strong>,
333: Oct 24-27, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 334: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 335: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
336: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
337:
338: <ul>
1.159 miod 339: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
340: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.205 deraadt 341: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 342: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
343: </ul>
1.4 millert 344: <p>
1.132 louis 345:
1.7 deraadt 346: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 347: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
348: Oct 23-25, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 349: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
350: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
351: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
352: mind (drinks afterwards).
353: <p>
354:
1.201 deraadt 355: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
356: Oct 18-20, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 357: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
358: questions.
1.32 deraadt 359: <p>
1.1 deraadt 360:
1.132 louis 361: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
362: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
1.201 deraadt 363: The Open Source Revolution</a></strong>,
364: Oct 5, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 365: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
366: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 367: <p>
368:
1.132 louis 369: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
370: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
1.201 deraadt 371: Usenix Security</a></strong>,
372: Aug 14-17, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 373: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
374: <ul>
375: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
376: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 377: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 378: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
379: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
380: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 381: <p>
1.132 louis 382:
1.10 provos 383: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 384: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
385: Jul 28-30, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 386: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
387: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
388: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
389: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
390: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
391: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
392: <br>
393: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
394: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
395: <p>
1.32 deraadt 396:
1.132 louis 397: <li><strong>
398: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
399: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
1.201 deraadt 400: </a></strong>,
401: Jul 17-20, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 402: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
403: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
404: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
405: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
406: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
407: and spoke about
408: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
409: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
410: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
411: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 412: <p>
1.132 louis 413:
1.6 deraadt 414: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 415: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
416: Jun 29-Jul 2, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 417: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
418: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
419: <br>
420: Christian Weisgerber gave a
421: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
422: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 423: <p>
1.1 deraadt 424:
1.6 deraadt 425: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 426: <a name=usenix2000>
427: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.201 deraadt 428: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
429: Jun 18-23, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 430: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
431: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
432: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
433: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
434: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 435: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 436: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
437: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
438: <ul>
439:
440: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
441: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 442: by Angelos D. Keromytis,
443: Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 444: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
445: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
446:
447: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
448: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 449: by Angelos D. Keromytis,
450: Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 451: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
452: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 453:
1.132 louis 454: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
455: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 456: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 457: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 458: <p>
459:
1.132 louis 460: <li><strong>
461: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
1.201 deraadt 462: OpenBSD: The Open Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
463: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 464: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
465: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
466: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 467: <p>
1.2 deraadt 468:
1.132 louis 469: <li><strong>
470: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
471: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
1.201 deraadt 472: </a></strong>,
473: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 474: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
475: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
476: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
477: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
478: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 479: <p>
1.11 jkatz 480:
1.17 deraadt 481: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 482: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
483: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 484: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
485: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
486: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
487: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
488: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 489: <p>
1.17 deraadt 490:
1.23 niklas 491: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 492: CanSecWest.
493: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
494: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
495: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
496: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
497: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
498: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
499: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
500: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 501: <p>
1.25 deraadt 502:
1.132 louis 503: <li><strong>
504: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 505: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
506: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.132 louis 507: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
508: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
509: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
510: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 511: <p>
1.23 niklas 512:
1.31 deraadt 513: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 514: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
1.201 deraadt 515: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
516: Feb 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 517: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 518: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
519: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
520: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
521: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 522: <p>
1.31 deraadt 523:
1.201 deraadt 524: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
525: Feb 3, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 526: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
527: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
528: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
529: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 530: <p>
531:
1.132 louis 532: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 533:
1.132 louis 534: <li>
1.201 deraadt 535: <strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
536: Dec 14-16, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 537: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
538: firewalls with OpenBSD.
539: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
540: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
541: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
542: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 543: <p>
544:
1.132 louis 545: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 546: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 547: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
1.201 deraadt 548: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
549: Nov 7-12, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 550: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
551: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
552: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
553: There were many other OpenBSD
554: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
555: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
556:
557: <ul>
558: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
559: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 560: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.132 louis 561: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
562: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
563: </ul>
564: <p>
565:
566: <li><strong>
567: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
1.201 deraadt 568: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
569: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 570: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
571: <p>
572:
573: <li><strong>
574: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
575: Linux & Open Source Software '99
576: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
577: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
578: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
579: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
580: <p>
581:
582: <li><strong>
583: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
584: Reflections/Projections 1999
585: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
586: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
587: developers from the east coast attended as well.
588: <p>
589:
590: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
591: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
592: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
593: (in swedish)</strong><br>
594: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
595: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
596: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
597: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
598: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
599: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
600: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
601: conference in Stockholm.
602: <p>
603:
604: <li><strong>
605: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
606: AUUG'99.
607: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
608: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
609: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
610: coordinated.
611: <p>
612:
613: <li><strong>
614: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
615: Usenix Security.
616: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
617: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
618: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
619: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
620: significant security roles.
621: <p>
622:
623: <li><strong>
624: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
625: 45th IETF meeting.
626: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
627: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
628: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
629: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 630: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 631: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
632: <p>
1.45 jason 633:
1.132 louis 634: <li><strong>
635: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
636: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
637: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
638: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 639: <p>
1.132 louis 640:
1.46 deraadt 641: <a name=usenix99>
642: <li><strong>
643: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
644: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 645: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 646: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 647: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 648: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
649: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 650: June.)
1.132 louis 651: <br>
1.46 deraadt 652: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 653: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
654:
1.46 deraadt 655: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 656: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 657: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 658: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 659: by Charles D. Cranor,
1.205 deraadt 660: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.49 deraadt 661: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
662: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 663: <br>
1.66 deraadt 664: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 665: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 666: by Niels Provos,
1.205 deraadt 667: David Mazieres.<br>
1.66 deraadt 668: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
669: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 670: <br>
1.66 deraadt 671: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 672: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 673: by Theo de Raadt,
1.205 deraadt 674: Niklas Hallqvist,
675: Artur Grabowski,
676: Angelos D. Keromytis,
677: Niels Provos.<br>
1.50 deraadt 678: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
679: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 680: <br>
1.66 deraadt 681: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 682: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 683: by Todd C. Miller,
1.205 deraadt 684: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.47 deraadt 685: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
686: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 687: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 688: <p>
1.46 deraadt 689:
1.51 deraadt 690: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 691: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
692: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
693: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
694: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
695: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
696: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
697: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
698: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 699: <p>
700:
1.53 jakob 701: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 702: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
703: 44th IETF meeting.
704: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
705: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
706: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 707: <p>
708:
1.132 louis 709: <li><strong>
710: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
711: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
712: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
713: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
714: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
715: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 716: <p>
717:
1.132 louis 718: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 719:
1.132 louis 720: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
721: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
722: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
723: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
724: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 725: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 726: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
727: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
728: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
729: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 730: <p>
731:
1.71 niklas 732: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 733: <a name=lisaboston-98>
734: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
735: 12th Systems Administration Conference
736: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
737: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
738: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
739: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
740: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
741: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
742: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
743: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
744: <br>
745: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
746: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
747: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 748: <p>
749:
1.73 deraadt 750: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 751: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
752: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
753: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
754: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
755: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
756: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 757: <p>
1.73 deraadt 758:
1.75 mickey 759: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 760: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 761: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 762: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
763: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
764: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
765: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
766: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 767: <p>
1.73 deraadt 768:
1.80 deraadt 769: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 770: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
771: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
772: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 773: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 774: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 775: <p>
776:
1.93 louis 777: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 778: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
779: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
780: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
781: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 782: <p>
783:
1.132 louis 784: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
785: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
786: California, USA.</strong></a>
787: <br>
788: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
789: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 790: <p>
791:
1.132 louis 792: <a name=defcon98>
793: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
794: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
795: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
796: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
797: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
798: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
799: <br>
800: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
801: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
802: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
803: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 804: <p>
1.94 deraadt 805:
1.132 louis 806: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
807: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
808: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
809: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
810: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
811: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
812: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 813: <p>
814:
1.101 wvdputte 815: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 816: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
817: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 818: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 819: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
820: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
821: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
822: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
823: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
824: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
825: <br>
826: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
827: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 828: <p>
829:
1.105 wvdputte 830: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 831: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
832: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
833: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
834: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
835: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
836: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 837: <br>
1.132 louis 838: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
839: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 840:
1.132 louis 841: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 842:
1.113 deraadt 843: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 844: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
845: </strong><br>
846: Niels held a
847: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
848: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
849: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 850: <p>
1.132 louis 851:
852: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 853: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 854: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
855: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 856: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 857:
1.132 louis 858: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
859: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
860: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
861: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
862: <br>
863: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 864: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 865: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 866: <p>
867:
1.125 deraadt 868: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 869: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
870: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
871: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
872: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
873: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 874:
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