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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>
1.208 jose 26: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
27: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>
28: Sep 8-12, 2003. San Mateo, California.<br>
29: OpenBSD will be represented in the BSD Status Report, and David
30: Rosenthal is scheduled to give a talk on an OpenBSD based security
31: appliance.
32: <p>
1.214 henning 33:
34: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
35: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>
36: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
37: Daniel Hartmeier will talk about pf.
38: <p>
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1.152 jakob 49: <h2>Past events:</h2>
50: <dl>
51:
1.188 henning 52: <h3>2003</h3>
1.214 henning 53: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
54: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
55: August 7 - 10, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
56: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
57: <p>
58:
1.213 jose 59: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
60: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
61: Aug 4-8, 2003. Washington, DC, USA.<br>
62: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
63: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
64: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
65: <p>
66:
1.211 jose 67: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
68: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
69: July 10 - 13, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
70: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
71: <p>
72:
73: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
74: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
75: July 9-12, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 76: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 77: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
78: <p>
79:
1.209 wvdputte 80: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
81: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
82: 24, 25 and 26 June, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
83: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
84: <p>
1.195 deraadt 85:
1.202 jason 86: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
87: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">
88: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
89: Jun 9-14, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
90: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
91: <ul>
92: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework.<br>
93: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.205 deraadt 94: Angelos D. Keromytis,
95: Jason L. Wright, and
96: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 97: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
98: </ul>
99: <p>
100:
1.201 deraadt 101: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
102: May 9 - 19, Calgary, Canada<br>
103: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
104: session.
105: <p>
106:
1.203 jason 107: <li><strong><a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
108: May 9-11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
109: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
110: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
111: <p>
112:
1.201 deraadt 113: <li><strong><a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
114: Apr 10, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 115: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 116: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 117: <p>
118:
1.201 deraadt 119: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
120: Mar 14, Hannover, Germany<br>
121: 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 122: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 123: <p>
124:
1.201 deraadt 125: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
126: Mar 1, Copenhagen<br>
1.196 matthieu 127: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1.191 dhartmei 128: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
129: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
130: user groups.
131: <p>
132:
1.201 deraadt 133: <li><strong><a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
134: Feb 25, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 135: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
136: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
137: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
138: <p>
139:
1.201 deraadt 140: <li><strong><a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
141: Feb 8 - 9, Brussels<br>,
1.187 henning 142: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
1.196 matthieu 143: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 144: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
145: <p>
146:
1.201 deraadt 147: <li><strong><a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
148: Feb 4-6, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 149: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
150: CD sets and Tshirts.
151: <p>
152:
1.161 millert 153: <h3>2002</h3>
1.201 deraadt 154: <li><strong><a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC Congress</a></strong>,
155: Dec 27-29, Berlin<br>
156: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1.184 wvdputte 157: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
158: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
159: <p>
1.177 jason 160:
1.201 deraadt 161: <li><strong><a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
162: November 15-17, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 163: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 164: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 165: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
166: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
167: and Ian Darwin presented a
168: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
169: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 170: <p>
1.178 pb 171:
1.177 jason 172: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">
1.201 deraadt 173: LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
174: Nov 3-8, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 175: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
176: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
177: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
178: <p>
179:
1.172 miod 180: <li><strong><a href="http://lsm.abul.org">
1.201 deraadt 181: The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
182: July 9-13, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 183: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
184: Niels Provos presented his
185: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
186: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 187: <p>
1.172 miod 188:
1.201 deraadt 189: <li><strong><a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
190: July 5-7, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 191: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
192: <p>
193:
1.168 miod 194: <li><strong><a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">
1.215 ! nick 195: The Annual International Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1.201 deraadt 196: May 2-4, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.168 miod 197: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 198: had a chance to prove their value.
199: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 200: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 201: <p>
1.168 miod 202:
1.201 deraadt 203: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
204: Feb 11-14, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 205: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 206: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
207: are available.
1.161 millert 208: <p>
209:
1.201 deraadt 210: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
211: Jan 30-Feb 1, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 212: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
213: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
214: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
215: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
216: <p>
217:
1.201 deraadt 218: <li><strong><a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
219: Jan 25-26, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 220: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
221: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
222: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
223: <p>
224:
1.152 jakob 225: <h3>2001</h3>
226:
1.201 deraadt 227: <li><strong><a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
228: Dec 2-7, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 229: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
230: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
231: <p>
232:
1.201 deraadt 233: <li><strong><a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
234: Dec 9-14, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 235: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
236: <p>
237:
1.158 deraadt 238: <li><strong>
239: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
1.201 deraadt 240: DISC 2001</a></strong>,
241: Nov 26 - 29, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 242: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
243: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
244: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
245: <p>
246:
1.201 deraadt 247: <li><strong><a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
248: Sep 15, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 249: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
250: <p>
251:
1.201 deraadt 252: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
253: Aug 13-18, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 254: Jakob and Itojun were there.
255: <p>
1.158 deraadt 256:
1.150 wvdputte 257: <li><strong>
1.215 ! nick 258: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.201 deraadt 259: Aug, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 260: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
261: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
262: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 263: <p>
1.137 aaron 264:
265: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 266: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference</a></strong>,
267: Jul 23-27, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 268: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
269: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
270: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
271: <p>
272:
273: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 274: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
275: Jul 13-15, Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 276: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
277: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
278: <p>
279:
280: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 281: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
282: Jun 26-29, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 283: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
284: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
285: <p>
286:
287: <li><strong>
1.215 ! nick 288: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.201 deraadt 289: Jun 25-30, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 290: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
291: <p>
292:
293: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 294: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 295: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
296: May 16-18, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 297: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
298: security community.
299: <p>
300:
301: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 302: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
303: Feb 3-4, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 304: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
305: <p>
306:
307: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 308: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
309: Feb 1-2, Paris, France<br>
1.137 aaron 310: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
311: <p>
312:
1.132 louis 313: <h3>2000</h3>
314:
315: <li><strong>
1.134 jufi 316: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
1.201 deraadt 317: USENIX Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
318: Dec 3-8, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 319: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
320: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
321: <p>
322:
323: <li><strong>
1.215 ! nick 324: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.201 deraadt 325: Nov 26 - Dec 1, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 326: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
327: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
328: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
329: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 330: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 331: <p>
332:
333: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 334: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
1.201 deraadt 335: NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000</a></strong>,
336: Nov 9, Ede, NL<br>
1.132 louis 337: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
338: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 339: <p>
1.4 millert 340:
1.132 louis 341: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
342: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
1.201 deraadt 343: IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a></strong>,
344: Oct 24-27, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 345: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 346: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
347: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
348:
349: <ul>
1.159 miod 350: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
1.215 ! nick 351: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 352: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
353: </ul>
1.4 millert 354: <p>
1.132 louis 355:
1.7 deraadt 356: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 357: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
358: Oct 23-25, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 359: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
360: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
361: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
362: mind (drinks afterwards).
363: <p>
364:
1.201 deraadt 365: <li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
366: Oct 18-20, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 367: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
368: questions.
1.32 deraadt 369: <p>
1.1 deraadt 370:
1.132 louis 371: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
372: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
1.201 deraadt 373: The Open Source Revolution</a></strong>,
374: Oct 5, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 375: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
376: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 377: <p>
378:
1.132 louis 379: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
380: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
1.201 deraadt 381: Usenix Security</a></strong>,
382: Aug 14-17, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 383: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
384: <ul>
385: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
386: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 387: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 388: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
389: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
390: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 391: <p>
1.132 louis 392:
1.10 provos 393: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 394: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
395: Jul 28-30, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 396: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
397: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
398: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
399: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
400: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
401: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
402: <br>
403: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
404: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
405: <p>
1.32 deraadt 406:
1.132 louis 407: <li><strong>
408: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
409: O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
1.201 deraadt 410: </a></strong>,
411: Jul 17-20, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 412: Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
413: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
414: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
415: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
416: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
417: and spoke about
418: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
419: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
420: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
421: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 422: <p>
1.132 louis 423:
1.6 deraadt 424: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 425: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
426: Jun 29-Jul 2, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 427: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
428: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
429: <br>
430: Christian Weisgerber gave a
431: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
432: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 433: <p>
1.1 deraadt 434:
1.6 deraadt 435: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 436: <a name=usenix2000>
437: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
1.201 deraadt 438: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.</a></strong>,
439: Jun 18-23, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 440: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
441: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
442: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
443: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
444: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 445: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 446: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
447: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
448: <ul>
449:
450: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
451: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 452: by Angelos D. Keromytis,
453: Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 454: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
455: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
456:
457: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
458: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 459: by Angelos D. Keromytis,
460: Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 461: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
462: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 463:
1.132 louis 464: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
465: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 466: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 467: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 468: <p>
469:
1.132 louis 470: <li><strong>
471: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
1.201 deraadt 472: OpenBSD: The Open Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
473: June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 474: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
475: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
476: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 477: <p>
1.2 deraadt 478:
1.132 louis 479: <li><strong>
480: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
481: OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
1.201 deraadt 482: </a></strong>,
483: June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 484: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
485: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
486: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
487: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
488: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 489: <p>
1.11 jkatz 490:
1.17 deraadt 491: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 492: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
493: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 494: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
495: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
496: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
497: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
498: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 499: <p>
1.17 deraadt 500:
1.23 niklas 501: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 502: CanSecWest.
503: May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
504: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
505: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
506: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
507: March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
508: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
509: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
510: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 511: <p>
1.25 deraadt 512:
1.132 louis 513: <li><strong>
514: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 515: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
516: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.132 louis 517: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
518: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
519: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
520: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 521: <p>
1.23 niklas 522:
1.31 deraadt 523: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 524: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
1.201 deraadt 525: NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
526: Feb 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 527: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 528: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
529: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
530: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
531: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 532: <p>
1.31 deraadt 533:
1.201 deraadt 534: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
535: Feb 3, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 536: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
537: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
538: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
539: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 540: <p>
541:
1.132 louis 542: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 543:
1.132 louis 544: <li>
1.201 deraadt 545: <strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
546: Dec 14-16, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 547: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
548: firewalls with OpenBSD.
549: BoF of open source BSDs took place.
550: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
551: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
552: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 553: <p>
554:
1.132 louis 555: <a name=lisa99>
1.45 jason 556: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 557: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
1.201 deraadt 558: 13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
559: Nov 7-12, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 560: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
561: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
562: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
563: There were many other OpenBSD
564: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
565: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
566:
567: <ul>
568: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
569: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 570: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.132 louis 571: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
572: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
573: </ul>
574: <p>
575:
576: <li><strong>
577: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/> -->
1.201 deraadt 578: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
579: October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 580: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
581: <p>
582:
583: <li><strong>
584: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
585: Linux & Open Source Software '99
586: October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
587: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
588: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
589: IPsec</a> for securing communications.
590: <p>
591:
592: <li><strong>
593: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
594: Reflections/Projections 1999
595: October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
596: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
597: developers from the east coast attended as well.
598: <p>
599:
600: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
601: <!-- <a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp> -->
602: IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
603: (in swedish)</strong><br>
604: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
605: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
606: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
607: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
608: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
609: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
610: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
611: conference in Stockholm.
612: <p>
613:
614: <li><strong>
615: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
616: AUUG'99.
617: September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
618: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
619: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
620: coordinated.
621: <p>
622:
623: <li><strong>
624: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
625: Usenix Security.
626: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
627: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
628: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
629: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
630: significant security roles.
631: <p>
632:
633: <li><strong>
634: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
635: 45th IETF meeting.
636: July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
637: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
638: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
639: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 640: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 641: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
642: <p>
1.45 jason 643:
1.132 louis 644: <li><strong>
645: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
646: Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
647: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
648: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 649: <p>
1.132 louis 650:
1.46 deraadt 651: <a name=usenix99>
652: <li><strong>
653: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
654: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 655: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.106 jufi 656: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 657: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 658: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
659: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 660: June.)
1.132 louis 661: <br>
1.46 deraadt 662: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 663: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
664:
1.46 deraadt 665: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 666: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 667: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 668: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 669: by Charles D. Cranor,
1.205 deraadt 670: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.49 deraadt 671: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
672: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 673: <br>
1.66 deraadt 674: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 675: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 676: by Niels Provos,
1.205 deraadt 677: David Mazieres.<br>
1.66 deraadt 678: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
679: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 680: <br>
1.66 deraadt 681: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 682: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 683: by Theo de Raadt,
1.205 deraadt 684: Niklas Hallqvist,
685: Artur Grabowski,
686: Angelos D. Keromytis,
687: Niels Provos.<br>
1.50 deraadt 688: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
689: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 690: <br>
1.66 deraadt 691: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 692: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.206 david 693: by Todd C. Miller,
1.205 deraadt 694: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.47 deraadt 695: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
696: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 697: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 698: <p>
1.46 deraadt 699:
1.51 deraadt 700: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 701: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
702: 5th Annual Linux Expo.
703: May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
704: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
705: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
706: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
707: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
708: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 709: <p>
710:
1.53 jakob 711: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 712: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
713: 44th IETF meeting.
714: March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
715: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
716: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 717: <p>
718:
1.132 louis 719: <li><strong>
720: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
721: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
722: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
723: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
724: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
725: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 726: <p>
727:
1.132 louis 728: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 729:
1.132 louis 730: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
731: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
732: tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
733: Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
734: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 735: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 736: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
737: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
738: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
739: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 740: <p>
741:
1.71 niklas 742: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 743: <a name=lisaboston-98>
744: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
745: 12th Systems Administration Conference
746: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
747: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
748: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
749: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
750: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
751: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
752: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
753: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
754: <br>
755: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
756: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
757: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 758: <p>
759:
1.73 deraadt 760: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 761: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
762: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
763: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
764: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
765: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
766: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 767: <p>
1.73 deraadt 768:
1.75 mickey 769: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 770: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
1.140 jufi 771: </strong><br>
1.132 louis 772: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
773: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
774: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
775: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
776: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 777: <p>
1.73 deraadt 778:
1.80 deraadt 779: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 780: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
781: October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
782: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 783: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 784: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 785: <p>
786:
1.93 louis 787: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 788: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
789: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
790: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
791: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 792: <p>
793:
1.132 louis 794: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
795: and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
796: California, USA.</strong></a>
797: <br>
798: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
799: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 800: <p>
801:
1.132 louis 802: <a name=defcon98>
803: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
804: July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
805: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
806: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
807: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
808: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
809: <br>
810: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
811: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
812: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
813: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 814: <p>
1.94 deraadt 815:
1.132 louis 816: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
817: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
818: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
819: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
820: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
821: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
822: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 823: <p>
824:
1.101 wvdputte 825: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 826: <a name=usenix-neworleans>
827: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
1.101 wvdputte 828: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.132 louis 829: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
830: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
831: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
832: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
833: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
834: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
835: <br>
836: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
837: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 838: <p>
839:
1.105 wvdputte 840: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 841: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
842: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
843: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
844: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
845: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
846: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 847: <br>
1.132 louis 848: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
849: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 850:
1.132 louis 851: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 852:
1.113 deraadt 853: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 854: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
855: </strong><br>
856: Niels held a
857: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
858: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
859: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 860: <p>
1.132 louis 861:
862: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
1.166 miod 863: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 864: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
865: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 866: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 867:
1.132 louis 868: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
869: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
870: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
871: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
872: <br>
873: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 874: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 875: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 876: <p>
877:
1.125 deraadt 878: <li><strong>
1.132 louis 879: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
880: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
881: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
882: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
883: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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