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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>
1.210 ! jose 46: Niels Provos will present two papers on security advances originally
! 47: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
! 48: Additional OpenBSD developers will be there.
1.204 jason 49: <p>
1.208 jose 50: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
51: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>
52: Sep 8-12, 2003. San Mateo, California.<br>
53: OpenBSD will be represented in the BSD Status Report, and David
54: Rosenthal is scheduled to give a talk on an OpenBSD based security
55: appliance.
56: <p>
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1.183 wvdputte 58:
1.152 jakob 59: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 67: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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69:
1.188 henning 70: <h3>2003</h3>
1.209 wvdputte 71: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
72: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
73: 24, 25 and 26 June, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
74: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
75: <p>
1.195 deraadt 76:
1.202 jason 77: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
78: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">
79: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
80: Jun 9-14, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
81: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
82: <ul>
83: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework.<br>
84: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.205 deraadt 85: Angelos D. Keromytis,
86: Jason L. Wright, and
87: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 88: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
89: </ul>
90: <p>
91:
1.201 deraadt 92: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
93: May 9 - 19, Calgary, Canada<br>
94: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
95: session.
96: <p>
97:
1.203 jason 98: <li><strong><a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
99: May 9-11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
100: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
101: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
102: <p>
103:
1.201 deraadt 104: <li><strong><a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
105: Apr 10, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 106: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 107: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 108: <p>
109:
1.201 deraadt 110: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
111: Mar 14, Hannover, Germany<br>
112: 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 113: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 114: <p>
115:
1.201 deraadt 116: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
117: Mar 1, Copenhagen<br>
1.196 matthieu 118: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1.191 dhartmei 119: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
120: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
121: user groups.
122: <p>
123:
1.201 deraadt 124: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
125: Feb 25, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 126: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
127: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
128: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
129: <p>
130:
1.201 deraadt 131: <li><strong><a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
132: Feb 8 - 9, Brussels<br>,
1.187 henning 133: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
1.196 matthieu 134: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 135: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
136: <p>
137:
1.201 deraadt 138: <li><strong><a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
139: Feb 4-6, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 140: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
141: CD sets and Tshirts.
142: <p>
143:
1.161 millert 144: <h3>2002</h3>
1.201 deraadt 145: <li><strong><a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC Congress</a></strong>,
146: Dec 27-29, Berlin<br>
147: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1.184 wvdputte 148: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
149: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
150: <p>
1.177 jason 151:
1.201 deraadt 152: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
153: November 15-17, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 154: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 155: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 156: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
157: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
158: and Ian Darwin presented a
159: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
160: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 161: <p>
1.178 pb 162:
1.177 jason 163: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
1.201 deraadt 164: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
165: Nov 3-8, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 166: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
167: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
168: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
169: <p>
170:
1.172 miod 171: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
1.201 deraadt 172: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
173: July 9-13, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 174: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
175: Niels Provos presented his
176: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
177: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 178: <p>
1.172 miod 179:
1.201 deraadt 180: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
181: July 5-7, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 182: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
183: <p>
184:
1.168 miod 185: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
1.201 deraadt 186: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong>
187: May 2-4, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.168 miod 188: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 189: had a chance to prove their value.
190: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 191: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 192: <p>
1.168 miod 193:
1.201 deraadt 194: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
195: Feb 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 196: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 197: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
198: are available.
1.161 millert 199: <p>
200:
1.201 deraadt 201: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
202: Jan 30-Feb 1, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 203: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
204: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
205: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
206: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
207: <p>
208:
1.201 deraadt 209: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
210: Jan 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 211: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
212: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
213: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
214: <p>
215:
1.152 jakob 216: <h3>2001</h3>
217:
1.201 deraadt 218: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
219: Dec 2-7, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 220: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
221: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
222: <p>
223:
1.201 deraadt 224: <li><strong><a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
225: Dec 9-14, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 226: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
227: <p>
228:
1.158 deraadt 229: <li><strong>
230: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
1.201 deraadt 231: DISC 2001</a></strong>,
232: Nov 26 - 29, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 233: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
234: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
235: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
236: <p>
237:
1.201 deraadt 238: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
239: Sep 15, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 240: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
241: <p>
242:
1.201 deraadt 243: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
244: Aug 13-18, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 245: Jakob and Itojun were there.
246: <p>
1.158 deraadt 247:
1.150 wvdputte 248: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 249: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001</a></strong>,
250: Aug, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 251: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
252: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
253: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 254: <p>
1.137 aaron 255:
256: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 257: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference</a></strong>,
258: Jul 23-27, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 259: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
260: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
261: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
262: <p>
263:
264: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 265: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
266: Jul 13-15, Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 267: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
268: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
269: <p>
270:
271: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 272: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
273: Jun 26-29, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 274: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
275: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
276: <p>
277:
278: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 279: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
280: Jun 25-30, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 281: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
282: <p>
283:
284: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 285: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 286: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
287: May 16-18, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 288: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
289: security community.
290: <p>
291:
292: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 293: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
294: Feb 3-4, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 295: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
296: <p>
297:
298: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 299: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
300: Feb 1-2, Paris, France<br>
1.137 aaron 301: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
302: <p>
303:
1.132 louis 304: <h3>2000</h3>
305:
306: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 307: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
1.201 deraadt 308: USENIX Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
309: Dec 3-8, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 310: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
311: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
312: <p>
313:
314: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 315: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000.</a></strong>,
316: Nov 26 - Dec 1, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 317: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
318: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
319: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
320: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 321: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 322: <p>
323:
324: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 325: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
1.201 deraadt 326: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000</a></strong>,
327: Nov 9, Ede, NL<br>
1.132 louis 328: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
329: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 330: <p>
1.4 millert 331:
1.132 louis 332: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
333: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.201 deraadt 334: IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a></strong>,
335: Oct 24-27, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 336: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 337: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
338: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
339:
340: <ul>
1.159 miod 341: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
342: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.205 deraadt 343: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 344: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
345: </ul>
1.4 millert 346: <p>
1.132 louis 347:
1.7 deraadt 348: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 349: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
350: Oct 23-25, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 351: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
352: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
353: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
354: mind (drinks afterwards).
355: <p>
356:
1.201 deraadt 357: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
358: Oct 18-20, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 359: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
360: questions.
1.32 deraadt 361: <p>
1.1 deraadt 362:
1.132 louis 363: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
364: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
1.201 deraadt 365: The Open Source Revolution</a></strong>,
366: Oct 5, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 367: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
368: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 369: <p>
370:
1.132 louis 371: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
372: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
1.201 deraadt 373: Usenix Security</a></strong>,
374: Aug 14-17, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 375: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
376: <ul>
377: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
378: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 379: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 380: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
381: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
382: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 383: <p>
1.132 louis 384:
1.10 provos 385: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 386: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
387: Jul 28-30, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 388: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
389: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
390: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
391: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
392: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
393: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
394: <br>
395: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
396: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
397: <p>
1.32 deraadt 398:
1.132 louis 399: <li><strong>
400: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
401: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
1.201 deraadt 402: </a></strong>,
403: Jul 17-20, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 404: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
405: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
406: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
407: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
408: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
409: and spoke about
410: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
411: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
412: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
413: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 414: <p>
1.132 louis 415:
1.6 deraadt 416: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 417: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
418: Jun 29-Jul 2, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 419: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
420: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
421: <br>
422: Christian Weisgerber gave a
423: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
424: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 425: <p>
1.1 deraadt 426:
1.6 deraadt 427: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 428: <a name=usenix2000>
429: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.201 deraadt 430: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
431: Jun 18-23, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 432: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
433: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
434: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
435: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
436: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 437: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 438: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
439: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
440: <ul>
441:
442: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
443: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 444: by Angelos D. Keromytis,
445: Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 446: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
447: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
448:
449: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
450: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 451: by Angelos D. Keromytis,
452: Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 453: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
454: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 455:
1.132 louis 456: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
457: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 458: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 459: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 460: <p>
461:
1.132 louis 462: <li><strong>
463: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
1.201 deraadt 464: OpenBSD: The Open Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
465: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 466: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
467: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
468: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 469: <p>
1.2 deraadt 470:
1.132 louis 471: <li><strong>
472: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
473: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
1.201 deraadt 474: </a></strong>,
475: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 476: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
477: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
478: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
479: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
480: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 481: <p>
1.11 jkatz 482:
1.17 deraadt 483: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 484: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
485: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 486: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
487: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
488: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
489: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
490: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 491: <p>
1.17 deraadt 492:
1.23 niklas 493: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 494: CanSecWest.
495: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
496: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
497: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
498: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
499: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
500: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
501: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
502: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 503: <p>
1.25 deraadt 504:
1.132 louis 505: <li><strong>
506: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 507: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
508: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.132 louis 509: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
510: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
511: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
512: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 513: <p>
1.23 niklas 514:
1.31 deraadt 515: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 516: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
1.201 deraadt 517: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
518: Feb 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 519: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 520: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
521: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
522: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
523: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 524: <p>
1.31 deraadt 525:
1.201 deraadt 526: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
527: Feb 3, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 528: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
529: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
530: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
531: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 532: <p>
533:
1.132 louis 534: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 535:
1.132 louis 536: <li>
1.201 deraadt 537: <strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
538: Dec 14-16, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 539: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
540: firewalls with OpenBSD.
541: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
542: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
543: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
544: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 545: <p>
546:
1.132 louis 547: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 548: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 549: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
1.201 deraadt 550: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
551: Nov 7-12, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 552: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
553: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
554: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
555: There were many other OpenBSD
556: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
557: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
558:
559: <ul>
560: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
561: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 562: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.132 louis 563: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
564: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
565: </ul>
566: <p>
567:
568: <li><strong>
569: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
1.201 deraadt 570: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
571: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 572: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
573: <p>
574:
575: <li><strong>
576: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
577: Linux & Open Source Software '99
578: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
579: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
580: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
581: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
582: <p>
583:
584: <li><strong>
585: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
586: Reflections/Projections 1999
587: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
588: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
589: developers from the east coast attended as well.
590: <p>
591:
592: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
593: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
594: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
595: (in swedish)</strong><br>
596: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
597: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
598: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
599: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
600: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
601: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
602: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
603: conference in Stockholm.
604: <p>
605:
606: <li><strong>
607: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
608: AUUG'99.
609: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
610: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
611: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
612: coordinated.
613: <p>
614:
615: <li><strong>
616: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
617: Usenix Security.
618: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
619: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
620: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
621: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
622: significant security roles.
623: <p>
624:
625: <li><strong>
626: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
627: 45th IETF meeting.
628: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
629: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
630: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
631: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 632: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 633: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
634: <p>
1.45 jason 635:
1.132 louis 636: <li><strong>
637: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
638: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
639: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
640: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 641: <p>
1.132 louis 642:
1.46 deraadt 643: <a name=usenix99>
644: <li><strong>
645: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
646: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 647: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 648: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 649: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 650: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
651: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 652: June.)
1.132 louis 653: <br>
1.46 deraadt 654: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 655: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
656:
1.46 deraadt 657: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 658: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 659: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 660: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 661: by Charles D. Cranor,
1.205 deraadt 662: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.49 deraadt 663: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
664: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 665: <br>
1.66 deraadt 666: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 667: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 668: by Niels Provos,
1.205 deraadt 669: David Mazieres.<br>
1.66 deraadt 670: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
671: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 672: <br>
1.66 deraadt 673: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 674: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 675: by Theo de Raadt,
1.205 deraadt 676: Niklas Hallqvist,
677: Artur Grabowski,
678: Angelos D. Keromytis,
679: Niels Provos.<br>
1.50 deraadt 680: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
681: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 682: <br>
1.66 deraadt 683: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 684: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 685: by Todd C. Miller,
1.205 deraadt 686: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.47 deraadt 687: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
688: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 689: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 690: <p>
1.46 deraadt 691:
1.51 deraadt 692: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 693: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
694: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
695: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
696: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
697: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
698: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
699: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
700: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 701: <p>
702:
1.53 jakob 703: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 704: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
705: 44th IETF meeting.
706: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
707: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
708: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 709: <p>
710:
1.132 louis 711: <li><strong>
712: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
713: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
714: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
715: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
716: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
717: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 718: <p>
719:
1.132 louis 720: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 721:
1.132 louis 722: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
723: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
724: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
725: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
726: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 727: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 728: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
729: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
730: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
731: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 732: <p>
733:
1.71 niklas 734: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 735: <a name=lisaboston-98>
736: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
737: 12th Systems Administration Conference
738: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
739: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
740: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
741: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
742: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
743: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
744: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
745: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
746: <br>
747: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
748: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
749: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 750: <p>
751:
1.73 deraadt 752: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 753: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
754: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
755: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
756: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
757: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
758: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 759: <p>
1.73 deraadt 760:
1.75 mickey 761: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 762: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 763: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 764: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
765: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
766: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
767: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
768: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 769: <p>
1.73 deraadt 770:
1.80 deraadt 771: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 772: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
773: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
774: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 775: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 776: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 777: <p>
778:
1.93 louis 779: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 780: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
781: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
782: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
783: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 784: <p>
785:
1.132 louis 786: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
787: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
788: California, USA.</strong></a>
789: <br>
790: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
791: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 792: <p>
793:
1.132 louis 794: <a name=defcon98>
795: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
796: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
797: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
798: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
799: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
800: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
801: <br>
802: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
803: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
804: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
805: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 806: <p>
1.94 deraadt 807:
1.132 louis 808: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
809: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
810: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
811: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
812: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
813: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
814: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 815: <p>
816:
1.101 wvdputte 817: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 818: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
819: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 820: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 821: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
822: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
823: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
824: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
825: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
826: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
827: <br>
828: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
829: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 830: <p>
831:
1.105 wvdputte 832: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 833: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
834: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
835: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
836: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
837: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
838: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 839: <br>
1.132 louis 840: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
841: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 842:
1.132 louis 843: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 844:
1.113 deraadt 845: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 846: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
847: </strong><br>
848: Niels held a
849: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
850: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
851: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 852: <p>
1.132 louis 853:
854: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 855: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 856: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
857: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 858: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 859:
1.132 louis 860: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
861: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
862: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
863: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
864: <br>
865: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 866: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 867: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 868: <p>
869:
1.125 deraadt 870: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 871: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
872: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
873: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
874: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
875: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 876:
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