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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=camp2003></a>
27: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
28: August 7 - 10, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
29: There will be a huge OpenBSD village, bring your own tent or stay at our dump.
30: Bring weird hardware. Sunbathe. Get drunk. Anything but sleep.
1.207 wvdputte 31: <p>
1.204 jason 32: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
33: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
34: Aug 4-8, 2003. Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.210 jose 35: Niels Provos will present two papers on security advances originally
36: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
37: Additional OpenBSD developers will be there.
1.204 jason 38: <p>
1.208 jose 39: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
40: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>
41: Sep 8-12, 2003. San Mateo, California.<br>
42: OpenBSD will be represented in the BSD Status Report, and David
43: Rosenthal is scheduled to give a talk on an OpenBSD based security
44: appliance.
45: <p>
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1.183 wvdputte 47:
1.152 jakob 48: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 56: <h2>Past events:</h2>
57: <dl>
58:
1.188 henning 59: <h3>2003</h3>
1.211 jose 60: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
61: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
62: July 10 - 13, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
63: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
64: <p>
65:
66: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
67: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
68: July 9-12, Metz, France<br>
1.212 ! matthieu 69: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 70: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
71: <p>
72:
1.209 wvdputte 73: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
74: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
75: 24, 25 and 26 June, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
76: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
77: <p>
1.195 deraadt 78:
1.202 jason 79: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
80: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">
81: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
82: Jun 9-14, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
83: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
84: <ul>
85: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework.<br>
86: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.205 deraadt 87: Angelos D. Keromytis,
88: Jason L. Wright, and
89: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 90: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
91: </ul>
92: <p>
93:
1.201 deraadt 94: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
95: May 9 - 19, Calgary, Canada<br>
96: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
97: session.
98: <p>
99:
1.203 jason 100: <li><strong><a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
101: May 9-11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
102: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
103: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
104: <p>
105:
1.201 deraadt 106: <li><strong><a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
107: Apr 10, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 108: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 109: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 110: <p>
111:
1.201 deraadt 112: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
113: Mar 14, Hannover, Germany<br>
114: 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 115: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 116: <p>
117:
1.201 deraadt 118: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
119: Mar 1, Copenhagen<br>
1.196 matthieu 120: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1.191 dhartmei 121: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
122: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
123: user groups.
124: <p>
125:
1.201 deraadt 126: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
127: Feb 25, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 128: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
129: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
130: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
131: <p>
132:
1.201 deraadt 133: <li><strong><a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
134: Feb 8 - 9, Brussels<br>,
1.187 henning 135: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
1.196 matthieu 136: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 137: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
138: <p>
139:
1.201 deraadt 140: <li><strong><a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
141: Feb 4-6, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 142: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
143: CD sets and Tshirts.
144: <p>
145:
1.161 millert 146: <h3>2002</h3>
1.201 deraadt 147: <li><strong><a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC Congress</a></strong>,
148: Dec 27-29, Berlin<br>
149: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1.184 wvdputte 150: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
151: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
152: <p>
1.177 jason 153:
1.201 deraadt 154: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
155: November 15-17, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 156: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 157: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 158: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
159: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
160: and Ian Darwin presented a
161: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
162: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 163: <p>
1.178 pb 164:
1.177 jason 165: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
1.201 deraadt 166: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
167: Nov 3-8, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 168: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
169: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
170: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
171: <p>
172:
1.172 miod 173: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
1.201 deraadt 174: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
175: July 9-13, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 176: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
177: Niels Provos presented his
178: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
179: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 180: <p>
1.172 miod 181:
1.201 deraadt 182: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
183: July 5-7, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 184: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
185: <p>
186:
1.168 miod 187: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
1.201 deraadt 188: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong>
189: May 2-4, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.168 miod 190: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 191: had a chance to prove their value.
192: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 193: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 194: <p>
1.168 miod 195:
1.201 deraadt 196: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
197: Feb 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 198: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 199: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
200: are available.
1.161 millert 201: <p>
202:
1.201 deraadt 203: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
204: Jan 30-Feb 1, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 205: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
206: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
207: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
208: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
209: <p>
210:
1.201 deraadt 211: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
212: Jan 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 213: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
214: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
215: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
216: <p>
217:
1.152 jakob 218: <h3>2001</h3>
219:
1.201 deraadt 220: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
221: Dec 2-7, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 222: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
223: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
224: <p>
225:
1.201 deraadt 226: <li><strong><a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
227: Dec 9-14, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 228: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
229: <p>
230:
1.158 deraadt 231: <li><strong>
232: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
1.201 deraadt 233: DISC 2001</a></strong>,
234: Nov 26 - 29, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 235: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
236: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
237: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
238: <p>
239:
1.201 deraadt 240: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
241: Sep 15, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 242: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
243: <p>
244:
1.201 deraadt 245: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
246: Aug 13-18, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 247: Jakob and Itojun were there.
248: <p>
1.158 deraadt 249:
1.150 wvdputte 250: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 251: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001</a></strong>,
252: Aug, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 253: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
254: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
255: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 256: <p>
1.137 aaron 257:
258: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 259: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference</a></strong>,
260: Jul 23-27, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 261: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
262: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
263: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
264: <p>
265:
266: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 267: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
268: Jul 13-15, Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 269: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
270: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
271: <p>
272:
273: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 274: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
275: Jun 26-29, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 276: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
277: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
278: <p>
279:
280: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 281: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
282: Jun 25-30, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 283: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
284: <p>
285:
286: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 287: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 288: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
289: May 16-18, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 290: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
291: security community.
292: <p>
293:
294: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 295: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
296: Feb 3-4, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 297: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
298: <p>
299:
300: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 301: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
302: Feb 1-2, Paris, France<br>
1.137 aaron 303: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
304: <p>
305:
1.132 louis 306: <h3>2000</h3>
307:
308: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 309: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
1.201 deraadt 310: USENIX Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
311: Dec 3-8, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 312: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
313: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
314: <p>
315:
316: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 317: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000.</a></strong>,
318: Nov 26 - Dec 1, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 319: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
320: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
321: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
322: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 323: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 324: <p>
325:
326: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 327: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
1.201 deraadt 328: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000</a></strong>,
329: Nov 9, Ede, NL<br>
1.132 louis 330: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
331: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 332: <p>
1.4 millert 333:
1.132 louis 334: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
335: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.201 deraadt 336: IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a></strong>,
337: Oct 24-27, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 338: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 339: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
340: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
341:
342: <ul>
1.159 miod 343: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
344: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.205 deraadt 345: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 346: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
347: </ul>
1.4 millert 348: <p>
1.132 louis 349:
1.7 deraadt 350: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 351: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
352: Oct 23-25, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 353: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
354: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
355: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
356: mind (drinks afterwards).
357: <p>
358:
1.201 deraadt 359: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
360: Oct 18-20, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 361: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
362: questions.
1.32 deraadt 363: <p>
1.1 deraadt 364:
1.132 louis 365: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
366: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
1.201 deraadt 367: The Open Source Revolution</a></strong>,
368: Oct 5, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 369: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
370: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 371: <p>
372:
1.132 louis 373: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
374: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
1.201 deraadt 375: Usenix Security</a></strong>,
376: Aug 14-17, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 377: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
378: <ul>
379: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
380: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 381: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 382: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
383: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
384: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 385: <p>
1.132 louis 386:
1.10 provos 387: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 388: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
389: Jul 28-30, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 390: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
391: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
392: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
393: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
394: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
395: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
396: <br>
397: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
398: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
399: <p>
1.32 deraadt 400:
1.132 louis 401: <li><strong>
402: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
403: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
1.201 deraadt 404: </a></strong>,
405: Jul 17-20, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 406: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
407: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
408: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
409: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
410: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
411: and spoke about
412: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
413: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
414: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
415: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 416: <p>
1.132 louis 417:
1.6 deraadt 418: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 419: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
420: Jun 29-Jul 2, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 421: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
422: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
423: <br>
424: Christian Weisgerber gave a
425: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
426: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 427: <p>
1.1 deraadt 428:
1.6 deraadt 429: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 430: <a name=usenix2000>
431: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.201 deraadt 432: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
433: Jun 18-23, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 434: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
435: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
436: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
437: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
438: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 439: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 440: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
441: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
442: <ul>
443:
444: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
445: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 446: by Angelos D. Keromytis,
447: Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 448: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
449: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
450:
451: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
452: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 453: by Angelos D. Keromytis,
454: Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 455: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
456: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 457:
1.132 louis 458: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
459: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 460: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 461: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 462: <p>
463:
1.132 louis 464: <li><strong>
465: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
1.201 deraadt 466: OpenBSD: The Open Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
467: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 468: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
469: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
470: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 471: <p>
1.2 deraadt 472:
1.132 louis 473: <li><strong>
474: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
475: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
1.201 deraadt 476: </a></strong>,
477: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 478: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
479: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
480: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
481: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
482: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 483: <p>
1.11 jkatz 484:
1.17 deraadt 485: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 486: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
487: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 488: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
489: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
490: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
491: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
492: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 493: <p>
1.17 deraadt 494:
1.23 niklas 495: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 496: CanSecWest.
497: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
498: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
499: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
500: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
501: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
502: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
503: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
504: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 505: <p>
1.25 deraadt 506:
1.132 louis 507: <li><strong>
508: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 509: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
510: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.132 louis 511: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
512: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
513: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
514: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 515: <p>
1.23 niklas 516:
1.31 deraadt 517: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 518: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
1.201 deraadt 519: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
520: Feb 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 521: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 522: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
523: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
524: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
525: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 526: <p>
1.31 deraadt 527:
1.201 deraadt 528: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
529: Feb 3, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 530: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
531: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
532: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
533: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 534: <p>
535:
1.132 louis 536: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 537:
1.132 louis 538: <li>
1.201 deraadt 539: <strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
540: Dec 14-16, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 541: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
542: firewalls with OpenBSD.
543: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
544: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
545: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
546: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 547: <p>
548:
1.132 louis 549: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 550: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 551: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
1.201 deraadt 552: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
553: Nov 7-12, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 554: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
555: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
556: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
557: There were many other OpenBSD
558: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
559: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
560:
561: <ul>
562: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
563: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 564: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.132 louis 565: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
566: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
567: </ul>
568: <p>
569:
570: <li><strong>
571: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
1.201 deraadt 572: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
573: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 574: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
575: <p>
576:
577: <li><strong>
578: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
579: Linux & Open Source Software '99
580: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
581: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
582: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
583: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
584: <p>
585:
586: <li><strong>
587: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
588: Reflections/Projections 1999
589: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
590: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
591: developers from the east coast attended as well.
592: <p>
593:
594: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
595: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
596: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
597: (in swedish)</strong><br>
598: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
599: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
600: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
601: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
602: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
603: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
604: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
605: conference in Stockholm.
606: <p>
607:
608: <li><strong>
609: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
610: AUUG'99.
611: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
612: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
613: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
614: coordinated.
615: <p>
616:
617: <li><strong>
618: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
619: Usenix Security.
620: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
621: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
622: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
623: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
624: significant security roles.
625: <p>
626:
627: <li><strong>
628: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
629: 45th IETF meeting.
630: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
631: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
632: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
633: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 634: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 635: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
636: <p>
1.45 jason 637:
1.132 louis 638: <li><strong>
639: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
640: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
641: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
642: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 643: <p>
1.132 louis 644:
1.46 deraadt 645: <a name=usenix99>
646: <li><strong>
647: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
648: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 649: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 650: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 651: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 652: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
653: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 654: June.)
1.132 louis 655: <br>
1.46 deraadt 656: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 657: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
658:
1.46 deraadt 659: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 660: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 661: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 662: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 663: by Charles D. Cranor,
1.205 deraadt 664: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.49 deraadt 665: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
666: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 667: <br>
1.66 deraadt 668: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 669: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 670: by Niels Provos,
1.205 deraadt 671: David Mazieres.<br>
1.66 deraadt 672: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
673: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 674: <br>
1.66 deraadt 675: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 676: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 677: by Theo de Raadt,
1.205 deraadt 678: Niklas Hallqvist,
679: Artur Grabowski,
680: Angelos D. Keromytis,
681: Niels Provos.<br>
1.50 deraadt 682: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
683: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 684: <br>
1.66 deraadt 685: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 686: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 687: by Todd C. Miller,
1.205 deraadt 688: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.47 deraadt 689: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
690: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 691: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 692: <p>
1.46 deraadt 693:
1.51 deraadt 694: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 695: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
696: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
697: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
698: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
699: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
700: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
701: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
702: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 703: <p>
704:
1.53 jakob 705: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 706: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
707: 44th IETF meeting.
708: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
709: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
710: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 711: <p>
712:
1.132 louis 713: <li><strong>
714: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
715: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
716: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
717: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
718: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
719: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 720: <p>
721:
1.132 louis 722: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 723:
1.132 louis 724: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
725: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
726: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
727: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
728: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 729: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 730: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
731: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
732: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
733: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 734: <p>
735:
1.71 niklas 736: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 737: <a name=lisaboston-98>
738: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
739: 12th Systems Administration Conference
740: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
741: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
742: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
743: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
744: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
745: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
746: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
747: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
748: <br>
749: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
750: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
751: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 752: <p>
753:
1.73 deraadt 754: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 755: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
756: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
757: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
758: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
759: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
760: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 761: <p>
1.73 deraadt 762:
1.75 mickey 763: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 764: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 765: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 766: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
767: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
768: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
769: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
770: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 771: <p>
1.73 deraadt 772:
1.80 deraadt 773: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 774: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
775: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
776: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 777: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 778: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 779: <p>
780:
1.93 louis 781: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 782: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
783: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
784: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
785: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 786: <p>
787:
1.132 louis 788: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
789: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
790: California, USA.</strong></a>
791: <br>
792: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
793: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 794: <p>
795:
1.132 louis 796: <a name=defcon98>
797: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
798: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
799: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
800: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
801: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
802: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
803: <br>
804: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
805: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
806: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
807: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 808: <p>
1.94 deraadt 809:
1.132 louis 810: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
811: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
812: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
813: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
814: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
815: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
816: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 817: <p>
818:
1.101 wvdputte 819: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 820: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
821: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 822: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 823: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
824: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
825: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
826: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
827: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
828: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
829: <br>
830: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
831: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 832: <p>
833:
1.105 wvdputte 834: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 835: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
836: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
837: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
838: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
839: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
840: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 841: <br>
1.132 louis 842: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
843: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 844:
1.132 louis 845: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 846:
1.113 deraadt 847: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 848: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
849: </strong><br>
850: Niels held a
851: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
852: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
853: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 854: <p>
1.132 louis 855:
856: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 857: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 858: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
859: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 860: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 861:
1.132 louis 862: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
863: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
864: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
865: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
866: <br>
867: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 868: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 869: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 870: <p>
871:
1.125 deraadt 872: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 873: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
874: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
875: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
876: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
877: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 878:
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