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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:
1.220 wvdputte 25: <h3>2003</h3>
26: <dl>
1.223 ! horacio 27: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.222 jose 28: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
29: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
30: This is the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD will be present.
31: Douglas Santos will be speaking on advocacy and about technical aspects
32: of OpenBSD. And Eduardo A. Alvarenga will be speaking about firewalling
33: with OpenBSD PF.
34: <p>
1.220 wvdputte 35: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
36: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
37: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
38: Booth will be present, contact <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> for help.
39: <p>
40: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
41: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
42: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
43: Booth will be present, contact <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> for help.
44: <p>
45: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
46: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
47: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, lyon, France.<br>
48: Miod is giving a talk, booth will be present, contact <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> for help.
49: <p>
50: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
51: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
52: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
53: Booth will be present, contact <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> for help.
54: <p>
1.221 jose 55: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
56: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
57: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
58: Three OpenBSD developers will be presenting on various topics. Theo de Raadt
59: will be presenting on recent advances in OpenBSD development, Jun-ichiro
60: itojun Hagino will be speaking on IPv6 security considerations, and Jose
61: Nazario will be discussing advances in Internet worm defenses.
62: <p>
1.220 wvdputte 63: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
64: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
65: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
66: Booth will be present, contact <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> for help.
67: </dl>
68:
69: <h3>2004</h3>
1.198 wvdputte 70: <dl>
1.220 wvdputte 71: <li><strong><a name=NordU2004></a>
72: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2004/index.html">6th NordU/USENIX Conference 2004</a></strong>,
73: Jan 28 - Feb 1, 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
74: Booth will be present, contact <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> for help.
75: <p>
1.214 henning 76:
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1.183 wvdputte 78:
1.152 jakob 79: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 94: <h2>Past events:</h2>
95: <dl>
96:
1.188 henning 97: <h3>2003</h3>
1.219 jose 98: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
99: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
100: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
101: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
102: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
103: <p>
104:
1.218 jose 105: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
106: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
107: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
108: Daniel Hartmeier talked about pf, and <a
109: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
110: <p>
111:
1.214 henning 112: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
113: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 114: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 115: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
116: <p>
117:
1.213 jose 118: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
119: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 120: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.213 jose 121: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
122: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
123: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
124: <p>
125:
1.211 jose 126: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
127: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 128: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 129: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
130: <p>
131:
132: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
133: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 134: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 135: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 136: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
137: <p>
138:
1.209 wvdputte 139: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
140: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 141: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 142: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
143: <p>
1.195 deraadt 144:
1.202 jason 145: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.216 jose 146: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
147: Conference</a></strong>,
148: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 149: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
150: <ul>
1.216 jose 151: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 152: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.216 jose 153: Angelos D. Keromytis,
154: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 155: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 156: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
157: </ul>
158: <p>
159:
1.201 deraadt 160: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 161: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 162: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
163: session.
164: <p>
165:
1.216 jose 166: <li><strong>
167: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
168: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 169: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
170: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
171: <p>
172:
1.216 jose 173: <li><strong>
174: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
175: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 176: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 177: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 178: <p>
179:
1.216 jose 180: <li><strong>
181: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
182: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.201 deraadt 183: 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 184: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 185: <p>
186:
1.216 jose 187: <li><strong>
188: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
189: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.196 matthieu 190: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1.191 dhartmei 191: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
192: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
193: user groups.
194: <p>
195:
1.216 jose 196: <li><strong>
197: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
198: Group</a></strong>,
199: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 200: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
201: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
202: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
203: <p>
204:
1.216 jose 205: <li><strong>
206: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
207: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.187 henning 208: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
1.196 matthieu 209: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 210: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
211: <p>
212:
1.216 jose 213: <li><strong>
214: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
215: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 216: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
217: CD sets and Tshirts.
218: <p>
219:
1.161 millert 220: <h3>2002</h3>
1.216 jose 221: <li><strong>
222: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
223: Congress</a></strong>,
224: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.201 deraadt 225: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1.184 wvdputte 226: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
227: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
228: <p>
1.177 jason 229:
1.216 jose 230: <li><strong>
231: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
232: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 233: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 234: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 235: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
236: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
237: and Ian Darwin presented a
238: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
239: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 240: <p>
1.178 pb 241:
1.216 jose 242: <li><strong>
243: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
244: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
245: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 246: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
247: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
248: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
249: <p>
250:
1.216 jose 251: <li><strong>
252: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
253: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 254: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
255: Niels Provos presented his
256: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
257: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 258: <p>
1.172 miod 259:
1.216 jose 260: <li><strong>
261: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
262: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 263: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
264: <p>
265:
1.216 jose 266: <li><strong>
267: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
268: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
269: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.168 miod 270: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 271: had a chance to prove their value.
272: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 273: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 274: <p>
1.168 miod 275:
1.216 jose 276: <li><strong>
277: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
278: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 279: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 280: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
281: are available.
1.161 millert 282: <p>
283:
1.216 jose 284: <li><strong>
285: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
286: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 287: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
288: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
289: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
290: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
291: <p>
292:
1.216 jose 293: <li><strong>
294: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
295: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 296: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
297: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
298: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
299: <p>
300:
1.152 jakob 301: <h3>2001</h3>
302:
1.216 jose 303: <li><strong>
304: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
305: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 306: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
307: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
308: <p>
309:
1.216 jose 310: <li><strong>
311: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
312: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 313: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
314: <p>
315:
1.158 deraadt 316: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 317: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
318: 2001</a></strong>,
319: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 320: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
321: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
322: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
323: <p>
324:
1.216 jose 325: <li><strong>
326: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
327: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 328: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
329: <p>
330:
1.201 deraadt 331: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 332: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 333: Jakob and Itojun were there.
334: <p>
1.158 deraadt 335:
1.150 wvdputte 336: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 337: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 338: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 339: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
340: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
341: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 342: <p>
1.137 aaron 343:
344: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 345: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
346: Conference</a></strong>,
347: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 348: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
349: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
350: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
351: <p>
352:
353: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 354: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 355: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 356: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
357: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
358: <p>
359:
360: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 361: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
362: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
363: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 364: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
365: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
366: <p>
367:
368: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 369: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
370: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
371: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 372: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
373: <p>
374:
375: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 376: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 377: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 378: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 379: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
380: security community.
381: <p>
382:
383: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 384: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
385: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
386: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 387: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
388: <p>
389:
390: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 391: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 392: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.137 aaron 393: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
394: <p>
395:
1.132 louis 396: <h3>2000</h3>
397:
398: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 399: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
400: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
401: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 402: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
403: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
404: <p>
405:
406: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 407: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 408: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 409: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
410: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
411: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
412: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 413: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 414: <p>
415:
416: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 417: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
418: 2000</a></strong>,
419: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.132 louis 420: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
421: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 422: <p>
1.4 millert 423:
1.132 louis 424: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.216 jose 425: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
426: Summit</a></strong>,
427: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 428: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 429: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
430: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
431:
432: <ul>
1.159 miod 433: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
1.215 nick 434: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 435: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
436: </ul>
1.4 millert 437: <p>
1.132 louis 438:
1.7 deraadt 439: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 440: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 441: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 442: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
443: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
444: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
445: mind (drinks afterwards).
446: <p>
447:
1.216 jose 448: <li><strong>
449: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
450: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 451: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
452: questions.
1.32 deraadt 453: <p>
1.1 deraadt 454:
1.132 louis 455: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.216 jose 456: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
457: Revolution</a></strong>,
458: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 459: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
460: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 461: <p>
462:
1.132 louis 463: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 464: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
465: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 466: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
467: <ul>
468: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
469: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 470: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 471: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
472: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
473: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 474: <p>
1.132 louis 475:
1.10 provos 476: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 477: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 478: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 479: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
480: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
481: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
482: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
483: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
484: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
485: <br>
486: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
487: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
488: <p>
1.32 deraadt 489:
1.132 louis 490: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 491: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
492: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
493: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
494: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 495: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
496: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
497: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
498: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
499: and spoke about
500: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
501: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
502: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
503: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 504: <p>
1.132 louis 505:
1.6 deraadt 506: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 507: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 508: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 509: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
510: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
511: <br>
512: Christian Weisgerber gave a
513: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
514: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 515: <p>
1.1 deraadt 516:
1.216 jose 517: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
518: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
519: Conference.</a></strong>,
520: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 521: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
522: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
523: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
524: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
525: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 526: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 527: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
528: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
529: <ul>
530:
531: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
532: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 533: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 534: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
535: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
536:
537: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
538: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 539: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 540: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
541: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 542:
1.132 louis 543: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
544: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 545: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 546: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 547: <p>
548:
1.132 louis 549: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 550: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
551: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
552: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 553: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
554: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
555: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 556: <p>
1.2 deraadt 557:
1.132 louis 558: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 559: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
560: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 561: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
562: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
563: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
564: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
565: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 566: <p>
1.11 jkatz 567:
1.17 deraadt 568: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 569: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
570: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 571: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
572: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
573: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
574: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
575: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 576: <p>
1.17 deraadt 577:
1.23 niklas 578: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 579: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
580: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 581: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
582: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
583: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 584: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 585: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
586: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
587: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 588: <p>
1.25 deraadt 589:
1.132 louis 590: <li><strong>
591: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 592: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
593: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 594: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 595: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
596: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
597: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 598: <p>
1.23 niklas 599:
1.31 deraadt 600: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 601: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>NordU 2000 -- The second
602: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
603: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 604: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 605: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
606: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
607: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
608: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 609: <p>
1.31 deraadt 610:
1.201 deraadt 611: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 612: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 613: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
614: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
615: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
616: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 617: <p>
618:
1.132 louis 619: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 620:
1.216 jose 621: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
622: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 623: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 624: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 625: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
626: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
627: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 628: <p>
629:
1.216 jose 630: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
631: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>13th Systems Administration
632: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
633: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 634: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
635: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
636: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
637: There were many other OpenBSD
638: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
639: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
640:
641: <ul>
642: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
643: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 644: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.132 louis 645: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
646: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
647: </ul>
648: <p>
649:
650: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 651: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 652: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 653: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
654: <p>
655:
656: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 657: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>Linux & Open Source
658: Software '99</a></strong>,
659: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 660: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.216 jose 661: <a
662: href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 663: <p>
664:
665: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 666: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>Reflections/Projections
667: 1999</a></strong>,
668: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 669: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
670: developers from the east coast attended as well.
671: <p>
672:
673: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
1.216 jose 674: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
675: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 676: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
677: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
678: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
679: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
680: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
681: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
682: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
683: conference in Stockholm.
684: <p>
685:
686: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 687: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>AUUG'99</a></strong>,
688: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 689: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
690: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
691: coordinated.
692: <p>
693:
694: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 695: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>Usenix
696: Security</a></strong>,
697: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 698: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
699: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
700: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
701: significant security roles.
702: <p>
703:
704: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 705: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>45th IETF
706: meeting</a></strong>,
707: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 708: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
709: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
710: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 711: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 712: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
713: <p>
1.45 jason 714:
1.132 louis 715: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 716: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
717: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 718: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
719: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 720: <p>
1.132 louis 721:
1.216 jose 722: <li><strong><a name=usenix99></a>
1.46 deraadt 723: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
1.216 jose 724: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
725: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 726: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 727: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 728: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
729: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 730: June.)
1.132 louis 731: <br>
1.46 deraadt 732: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 733: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
734:
1.46 deraadt 735: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 736: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 737: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 738: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 739: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.49 deraadt 740: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
741: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 742: <br>
1.66 deraadt 743: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 744: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 745: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.66 deraadt 746: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
747: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 748: <br>
1.66 deraadt 749: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 750: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 751: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
752: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.50 deraadt 753: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
754: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 755: <br>
1.66 deraadt 756: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 757: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 758: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.47 deraadt 759: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
760: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 761: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 762: <p>
1.46 deraadt 763:
1.51 deraadt 764: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 765: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
766: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 767: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
768: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
769: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
770: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
771: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 772: <p>
773:
1.53 jakob 774: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 775: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>44th IETF
776: meeting</a></strong>,
777: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 778: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
779: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 780: <p>
781:
1.132 louis 782: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 783: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
784: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
785: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 786: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
787: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
788: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
789: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 790: <p>
791:
1.132 louis 792: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 793:
1.132 louis 794: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
795: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1.216 jose 796: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
797: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 798: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 799: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 800: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
801: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
802: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
803: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 804: <p>
805:
1.216 jose 806: <li><strong><a name=lisaboston-98></a>
807: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
808: Conference</a></strong>,
809: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 810: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
811: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
812: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
813: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
814: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
815: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
816: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
817: <br>
818: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
819: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
820: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 821: <p>
822:
1.73 deraadt 823: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 824: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 825: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 826: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 827: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.217 jose 828: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 829: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
830: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 831: <p>
1.73 deraadt 832:
1.216 jose 833: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
834: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 835: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
836: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
837: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
838: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
839: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 840: <p>
1.73 deraadt 841:
1.80 deraadt 842: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 843: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
844: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 845: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 846: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 847: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 848: <p>
849:
1.93 louis 850: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 851: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
852: 1998</a></strong>,
853: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA</br>
1.132 louis 854: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
855: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 856: <p>
857:
1.216 jose 858: <li><strong>
859: <a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly and
860: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
861: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 862: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
863: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 864: <p>
865:
1.217 jose 866: <li><strong><a name=defcon98></a>
1.216 jose 867: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI</a></strong>,
868: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 869: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
870: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
871: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
872: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
873: <br>
874: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
875: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
876: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
877: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 878: <p>
1.94 deraadt 879:
1.216 jose 880: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
881: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 882: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
883: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
884: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
885: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
886: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 887: <p>
888:
1.217 jose 889: <li><strong><a name=usenix-neworleans></a>
1.216 jose 890: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
891: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 892: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
893: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
894: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
895: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
896: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
897: <br>
898: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
899: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 900: <p>
901:
1.105 wvdputte 902: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 903: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>Usenix Security</a></strong>,
904: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 905: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
906: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
907: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
908: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 909: <br>
1.132 louis 910: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
911: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 912:
1.132 louis 913: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 914:
1.113 deraadt 915: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 916: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP</a></strong>,
917: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.132 louis 918: Niels held a
919: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
920: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
921: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 922: <p>
1.132 louis 923:
1.216 jose 924: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
925: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 926: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 927: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
928: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 929: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 930:
1.132 louis 931: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
1.216 jose 932: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>Defcon V</a></strong>,
933: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 934: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
935: <br>
936: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 937: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 938: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 939: <p>
940:
1.125 deraadt 941: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 942: <a
943: href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
944: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 945: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
946: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 947:
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