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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>
1.208 jose 32: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
33: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>
34: Sep 8-12, 2003. San Mateo, California.<br>
35: OpenBSD will be represented in the BSD Status Report, and David
36: Rosenthal is scheduled to give a talk on an OpenBSD based security
37: appliance.
38: <p>
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1.183 wvdputte 40:
1.152 jakob 41: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 49: <h2>Past events:</h2>
50: <dl>
51:
1.188 henning 52: <h3>2003</h3>
1.213 ! jose 53: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
! 54: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
! 55: Aug 4-8, 2003. Washington, DC, USA.<br>
! 56: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
! 57: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
! 58: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
! 59: <p>
! 60:
1.211 jose 61: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
62: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
63: July 10 - 13, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
64: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
65: <p>
66:
67: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
68: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
69: July 9-12, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 70: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 71: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
72: <p>
73:
1.209 wvdputte 74: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
75: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
76: 24, 25 and 26 June, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
77: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
78: <p>
1.195 deraadt 79:
1.202 jason 80: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
81: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">
82: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
83: Jun 9-14, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
84: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
85: <ul>
86: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework.<br>
87: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.205 deraadt 88: Angelos D. Keromytis,
89: Jason L. Wright, and
90: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 91: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
92: </ul>
93: <p>
94:
1.201 deraadt 95: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
96: May 9 - 19, Calgary, Canada<br>
97: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
98: session.
99: <p>
100:
1.203 jason 101: <li><strong><a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
102: May 9-11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
103: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
104: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
105: <p>
106:
1.201 deraadt 107: <li><strong><a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
108: Apr 10, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 109: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 110: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 111: <p>
112:
1.201 deraadt 113: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
114: Mar 14, Hannover, Germany<br>
115: 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 116: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 117: <p>
118:
1.201 deraadt 119: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
120: Mar 1, Copenhagen<br>
1.196 matthieu 121: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1.191 dhartmei 122: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
123: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
124: user groups.
125: <p>
126:
1.201 deraadt 127: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
128: Feb 25, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 129: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
130: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
131: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
132: <p>
133:
1.201 deraadt 134: <li><strong><a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
135: Feb 8 - 9, Brussels<br>,
1.187 henning 136: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
1.196 matthieu 137: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 138: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
139: <p>
140:
1.201 deraadt 141: <li><strong><a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
142: Feb 4-6, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 143: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
144: CD sets and Tshirts.
145: <p>
146:
1.161 millert 147: <h3>2002</h3>
1.201 deraadt 148: <li><strong><a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC Congress</a></strong>,
149: Dec 27-29, Berlin<br>
150: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1.184 wvdputte 151: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
152: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
153: <p>
1.177 jason 154:
1.201 deraadt 155: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
156: November 15-17, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 157: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 158: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 159: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
160: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
161: and Ian Darwin presented a
162: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
163: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 164: <p>
1.178 pb 165:
1.177 jason 166: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
1.201 deraadt 167: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
168: Nov 3-8, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 169: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
170: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
171: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
172: <p>
173:
1.172 miod 174: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
1.201 deraadt 175: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
176: July 9-13, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 177: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
178: Niels Provos presented his
179: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
180: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 181: <p>
1.172 miod 182:
1.201 deraadt 183: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
184: July 5-7, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 185: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
186: <p>
187:
1.168 miod 188: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
1.201 deraadt 189: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong>
190: May 2-4, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.168 miod 191: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 192: had a chance to prove their value.
193: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 194: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 195: <p>
1.168 miod 196:
1.201 deraadt 197: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
198: Feb 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 199: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 200: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
201: are available.
1.161 millert 202: <p>
203:
1.201 deraadt 204: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
205: Jan 30-Feb 1, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 206: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
207: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
208: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
209: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
210: <p>
211:
1.201 deraadt 212: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
213: Jan 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 214: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
215: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
216: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
217: <p>
218:
1.152 jakob 219: <h3>2001</h3>
220:
1.201 deraadt 221: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
222: Dec 2-7, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 223: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
224: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
225: <p>
226:
1.201 deraadt 227: <li><strong><a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
228: Dec 9-14, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 229: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
230: <p>
231:
1.158 deraadt 232: <li><strong>
233: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
1.201 deraadt 234: DISC 2001</a></strong>,
235: Nov 26 - 29, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 236: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
237: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
238: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
239: <p>
240:
1.201 deraadt 241: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
242: Sep 15, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 243: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
244: <p>
245:
1.201 deraadt 246: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
247: Aug 13-18, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 248: Jakob and Itojun were there.
249: <p>
1.158 deraadt 250:
1.150 wvdputte 251: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 252: <a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001</a></strong>,
253: Aug, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 254: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
255: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
256: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 257: <p>
1.137 aaron 258:
259: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 260: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference</a></strong>,
261: Jul 23-27, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 262: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
263: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
264: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
265: <p>
266:
267: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 268: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
269: Jul 13-15, Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 270: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
271: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
272: <p>
273:
274: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 275: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
276: Jun 26-29, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 277: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
278: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
279: <p>
280:
281: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 282: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
283: Jun 25-30, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 284: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
285: <p>
286:
287: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 288: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 289: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
290: May 16-18, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 291: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
292: security community.
293: <p>
294:
295: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 296: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
297: Feb 3-4, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 298: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
299: <p>
300:
301: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 302: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
303: Feb 1-2, Paris, France<br>
1.137 aaron 304: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
305: <p>
306:
1.132 louis 307: <h3>2000</h3>
308:
309: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 310: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
1.201 deraadt 311: USENIX Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
312: Dec 3-8, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 313: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
314: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
315: <p>
316:
317: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 318: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000.</a></strong>,
319: Nov 26 - Dec 1, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 320: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
321: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
322: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
323: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 324: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 325: <p>
326:
327: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 328: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
1.201 deraadt 329: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000</a></strong>,
330: Nov 9, Ede, NL<br>
1.132 louis 331: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
332: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 333: <p>
1.4 millert 334:
1.132 louis 335: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
336: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.201 deraadt 337: IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a></strong>,
338: Oct 24-27, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 339: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 340: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
341: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
342:
343: <ul>
1.159 miod 344: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
345: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a>
1.205 deraadt 346: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 347: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
348: </ul>
1.4 millert 349: <p>
1.132 louis 350:
1.7 deraadt 351: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 352: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
353: Oct 23-25, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 354: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
355: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
356: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
357: mind (drinks afterwards).
358: <p>
359:
1.201 deraadt 360: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
361: Oct 18-20, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 362: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
363: questions.
1.32 deraadt 364: <p>
1.1 deraadt 365:
1.132 louis 366: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
367: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
1.201 deraadt 368: The Open Source Revolution</a></strong>,
369: Oct 5, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 370: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
371: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 372: <p>
373:
1.132 louis 374: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
375: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
1.201 deraadt 376: Usenix Security</a></strong>,
377: Aug 14-17, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 378: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
379: <ul>
380: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
381: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 382: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 383: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
384: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
385: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 386: <p>
1.132 louis 387:
1.10 provos 388: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 389: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
390: Jul 28-30, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 391: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
392: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
393: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
394: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
395: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
396: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
397: <br>
398: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
399: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
400: <p>
1.32 deraadt 401:
1.132 louis 402: <li><strong>
403: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
404: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
1.201 deraadt 405: </a></strong>,
406: Jul 17-20, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 407: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
408: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
409: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
410: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
411: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
412: and spoke about
413: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
414: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
415: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
416: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 417: <p>
1.132 louis 418:
1.6 deraadt 419: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 420: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
421: Jun 29-Jul 2, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 422: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
423: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
424: <br>
425: Christian Weisgerber gave a
426: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
427: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 428: <p>
1.1 deraadt 429:
1.6 deraadt 430: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 431: <a name=usenix2000>
432: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.201 deraadt 433: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
434: Jun 18-23, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 435: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
436: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
437: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
438: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
439: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 440: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 441: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
442: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
443: <ul>
444:
445: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
446: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 447: by Angelos D. Keromytis,
448: Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 449: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
450: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
451:
452: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
453: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 454: by Angelos D. Keromytis,
455: Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 456: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
457: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 458:
1.132 louis 459: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
460: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 461: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 462: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 463: <p>
464:
1.132 louis 465: <li><strong>
466: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
1.201 deraadt 467: OpenBSD: The Open Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
468: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 469: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
470: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
471: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 472: <p>
1.2 deraadt 473:
1.132 louis 474: <li><strong>
475: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
476: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
1.201 deraadt 477: </a></strong>,
478: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 479: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
480: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
481: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
482: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
483: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 484: <p>
1.11 jkatz 485:
1.17 deraadt 486: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 487: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
488: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 489: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
490: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
491: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
492: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
493: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 494: <p>
1.17 deraadt 495:
1.23 niklas 496: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 497: CanSecWest.
498: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
499: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
500: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
501: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
502: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
503: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
504: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
505: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 506: <p>
1.25 deraadt 507:
1.132 louis 508: <li><strong>
509: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 510: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
511: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.132 louis 512: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
513: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
514: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
515: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 516: <p>
1.23 niklas 517:
1.31 deraadt 518: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 519: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
1.201 deraadt 520: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
521: Feb 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 522: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 523: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
524: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
525: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
526: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 527: <p>
1.31 deraadt 528:
1.201 deraadt 529: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
530: Feb 3, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 531: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
532: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
533: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
534: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 535: <p>
536:
1.132 louis 537: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 538:
1.132 louis 539: <li>
1.201 deraadt 540: <strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
541: Dec 14-16, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 542: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
543: firewalls with OpenBSD.
544: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
545: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
546: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
547: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 548: <p>
549:
1.132 louis 550: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 551: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 552: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
1.201 deraadt 553: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
554: Nov 7-12, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 555: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
556: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
557: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
558: There were many other OpenBSD
559: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
560: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
561:
562: <ul>
563: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
564: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 565: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.132 louis 566: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
567: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
568: </ul>
569: <p>
570:
571: <li><strong>
572: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
1.201 deraadt 573: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
574: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 575: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
576: <p>
577:
578: <li><strong>
579: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
580: Linux & Open Source Software '99
581: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
582: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
583: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
584: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
585: <p>
586:
587: <li><strong>
588: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
589: Reflections/Projections 1999
590: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
591: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
592: developers from the east coast attended as well.
593: <p>
594:
595: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
596: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
597: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
598: (in swedish)</strong><br>
599: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
600: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
601: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
602: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
603: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
604: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
605: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
606: conference in Stockholm.
607: <p>
608:
609: <li><strong>
610: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
611: AUUG'99.
612: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
613: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
614: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
615: coordinated.
616: <p>
617:
618: <li><strong>
619: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
620: Usenix Security.
621: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
622: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
623: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
624: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
625: significant security roles.
626: <p>
627:
628: <li><strong>
629: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
630: 45th IETF meeting.
631: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
632: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
633: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
634: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 635: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 636: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
637: <p>
1.45 jason 638:
1.132 louis 639: <li><strong>
640: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
641: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
642: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
643: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 644: <p>
1.132 louis 645:
1.46 deraadt 646: <a name=usenix99>
647: <li><strong>
648: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
649: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 650: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 651: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 652: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 653: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
654: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 655: June.)
1.132 louis 656: <br>
1.46 deraadt 657: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 658: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
659:
1.46 deraadt 660: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 661: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 662: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 663: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 664: by Charles D. Cranor,
1.205 deraadt 665: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.49 deraadt 666: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
667: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 668: <br>
1.66 deraadt 669: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 670: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 671: by Niels Provos,
1.205 deraadt 672: David Mazieres.<br>
1.66 deraadt 673: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
674: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 675: <br>
1.66 deraadt 676: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 677: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 678: by Theo de Raadt,
1.205 deraadt 679: Niklas Hallqvist,
680: Artur Grabowski,
681: Angelos D. Keromytis,
682: Niels Provos.<br>
1.50 deraadt 683: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
684: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 685: <br>
1.66 deraadt 686: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 687: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 688: by Todd C. Miller,
1.205 deraadt 689: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.47 deraadt 690: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
691: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 692: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 693: <p>
1.46 deraadt 694:
1.51 deraadt 695: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 696: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
697: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
698: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
699: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
700: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
701: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
702: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
703: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 704: <p>
705:
1.53 jakob 706: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 707: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
708: 44th IETF meeting.
709: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
710: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
711: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 712: <p>
713:
1.132 louis 714: <li><strong>
715: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
716: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
717: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
718: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
719: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
720: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 721: <p>
722:
1.132 louis 723: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 724:
1.132 louis 725: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
726: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
727: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
728: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
729: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 730: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 731: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
732: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
733: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
734: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 735: <p>
736:
1.71 niklas 737: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 738: <a name=lisaboston-98>
739: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
740: 12th Systems Administration Conference
741: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
742: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
743: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
744: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
745: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
746: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
747: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
748: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
749: <br>
750: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
751: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
752: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 753: <p>
754:
1.73 deraadt 755: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 756: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
757: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
758: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
759: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
760: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
761: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 762: <p>
1.73 deraadt 763:
1.75 mickey 764: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 765: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 766: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 767: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
768: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
769: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
770: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
771: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 772: <p>
1.73 deraadt 773:
1.80 deraadt 774: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 775: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
776: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
777: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 778: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 779: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 780: <p>
781:
1.93 louis 782: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 783: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
784: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
785: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
786: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 787: <p>
788:
1.132 louis 789: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
790: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
791: California, USA.</strong></a>
792: <br>
793: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
794: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 795: <p>
796:
1.132 louis 797: <a name=defcon98>
798: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
799: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
800: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
801: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
802: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
803: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
804: <br>
805: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
806: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
807: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
808: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 809: <p>
1.94 deraadt 810:
1.132 louis 811: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
812: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
813: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
814: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
815: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
816: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
817: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 818: <p>
819:
1.101 wvdputte 820: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 821: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
822: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 823: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 824: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
825: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
826: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
827: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
828: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
829: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
830: <br>
831: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
832: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 833: <p>
834:
1.105 wvdputte 835: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 836: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
837: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
838: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
839: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
840: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
841: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 842: <br>
1.132 louis 843: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
844: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 845:
1.132 louis 846: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 847:
1.113 deraadt 848: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 849: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
850: </strong><br>
851: Niels held a
852: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
853: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
854: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 855: <p>
1.132 louis 856:
857: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 858: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 859: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
860: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 861: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 862:
1.132 louis 863: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
864: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
865: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
866: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
867: <br>
868: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 869: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 870: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 871: <p>
872:
1.125 deraadt 873: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 874: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
875: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
876: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
877: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
878: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 879:
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