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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>
1.227 ! jose 27:
1.224 miod 28: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
29: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
30: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
31: This is the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD will be present.
32: Douglas Santos will be speaking on advocacy and about technical aspects
33: of OpenBSD. And Eduardo A. Alvarenga will be speaking about firewalling
34: with OpenBSD PF.
35: <p>
1.220 wvdputte 36: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
37: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
38: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
39: Booth will be present, contact <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> for help.
40: </dl>
41:
42: <h3>2004</h3>
1.198 wvdputte 43: <dl>
1.220 wvdputte 44: <li><strong><a name=NordU2004></a>
45: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2004/index.html">6th NordU/USENIX Conference 2004</a></strong>,
46: Jan 28 - Feb 1, 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
47: Booth will be present, contact <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> for help.
48: <p>
1.214 henning 49:
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1.183 wvdputte 51:
1.152 jakob 52: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 67: <h2>Past events:</h2>
68: <dl>
69:
1.188 henning 70: <h3>2003</h3>
1.227 ! jose 71: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
! 72: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
! 73: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
! 74: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
! 75: <p>
! 76:
! 77: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
! 78: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
! 79: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
! 80: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
! 81: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
! 82: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(english)</a>
! 83: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
! 84: itojun Hagino presented material covering
! 85: <A HREF=http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/>
! 86: IPv6 security considerations</A>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
! 87: in Internet worm defenses.
! 88: <p>
! 89:
1.224 miod 90: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
91: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
92: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
93: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
94: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
95: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
96: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
97: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
98: OpenBSD.
99: <p>
100:
101: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
102: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
103: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
104: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
105: <p>
106:
107: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
108: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
109: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
110: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
111: <p>
112:
1.219 jose 113: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
114: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
115: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
116: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
117: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
118: <p>
119:
1.218 jose 120: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
121: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
122: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
123: Daniel Hartmeier talked about pf, and <a
124: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
125: <p>
126:
1.214 henning 127: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
128: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 129: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 130: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
131: <p>
132:
1.213 jose 133: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
134: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 135: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.213 jose 136: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
137: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
138: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
139: <p>
140:
1.211 jose 141: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
142: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 143: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 144: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
145: <p>
146:
147: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
148: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 149: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 150: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 151: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
152: <p>
153:
1.209 wvdputte 154: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
155: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 156: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 157: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
158: <p>
1.195 deraadt 159:
1.202 jason 160: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.216 jose 161: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
162: Conference</a></strong>,
163: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 164: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
165: <ul>
1.216 jose 166: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 167: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.216 jose 168: Angelos D. Keromytis,
169: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 170: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 171: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
172: </ul>
173: <p>
174:
1.201 deraadt 175: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 176: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 177: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
178: session.
179: <p>
180:
1.216 jose 181: <li><strong>
182: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
183: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 184: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
185: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
186: <p>
187:
1.216 jose 188: <li><strong>
189: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
190: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 191: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 192: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 193: <p>
194:
1.216 jose 195: <li><strong>
196: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
197: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.201 deraadt 198: 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 199: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 200: <p>
201:
1.216 jose 202: <li><strong>
203: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
204: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.196 matthieu 205: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1.191 dhartmei 206: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
207: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
208: user groups.
209: <p>
210:
1.216 jose 211: <li><strong>
212: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
213: Group</a></strong>,
214: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 215: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
216: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
217: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
218: <p>
219:
1.216 jose 220: <li><strong>
221: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
222: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.187 henning 223: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
1.196 matthieu 224: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 225: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
226: <p>
227:
1.216 jose 228: <li><strong>
229: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
230: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 231: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
232: CD sets and Tshirts.
233: <p>
234:
1.161 millert 235: <h3>2002</h3>
1.216 jose 236: <li><strong>
237: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
238: Congress</a></strong>,
239: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.201 deraadt 240: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1.184 wvdputte 241: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
242: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
243: <p>
1.177 jason 244:
1.216 jose 245: <li><strong>
246: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
247: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 248: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 249: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 250: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
251: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
252: and Ian Darwin presented a
253: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
254: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 255: <p>
1.178 pb 256:
1.216 jose 257: <li><strong>
258: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
259: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
260: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 261: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
262: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
263: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
264: <p>
265:
1.216 jose 266: <li><strong>
267: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
268: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 269: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
270: Niels Provos presented his
271: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
272: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 273: <p>
1.172 miod 274:
1.216 jose 275: <li><strong>
276: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
277: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 278: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
279: <p>
280:
1.216 jose 281: <li><strong>
282: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
283: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
284: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.168 miod 285: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 286: had a chance to prove their value.
287: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 288: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 289: <p>
1.168 miod 290:
1.216 jose 291: <li><strong>
292: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
293: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 294: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 295: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
296: are available.
1.161 millert 297: <p>
298:
1.216 jose 299: <li><strong>
300: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
301: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 302: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
303: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
304: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
305: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
306: <p>
307:
1.216 jose 308: <li><strong>
309: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
310: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 311: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
312: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
313: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
314: <p>
315:
1.152 jakob 316: <h3>2001</h3>
317:
1.216 jose 318: <li><strong>
319: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
320: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 321: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
322: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
323: <p>
324:
1.216 jose 325: <li><strong>
326: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
327: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 328: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
329: <p>
330:
1.158 deraadt 331: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 332: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
333: 2001</a></strong>,
334: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 335: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
336: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
337: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
338: <p>
339:
1.216 jose 340: <li><strong>
341: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
342: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 343: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
344: <p>
345:
1.201 deraadt 346: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 347: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 348: Jakob and Itojun were there.
349: <p>
1.158 deraadt 350:
1.150 wvdputte 351: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 352: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 353: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 354: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
355: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
356: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 357: <p>
1.137 aaron 358:
359: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 360: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
361: Conference</a></strong>,
362: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 363: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
364: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
365: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
366: <p>
367:
368: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 369: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 370: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 371: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
372: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
373: <p>
374:
375: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 376: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
377: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
378: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 379: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
380: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
381: <p>
382:
383: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 384: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
385: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
386: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 387: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
388: <p>
389:
390: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 391: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 392: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 393: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 394: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
395: security community.
396: <p>
397:
398: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 399: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
400: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
401: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 402: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
403: <p>
404:
405: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 406: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 407: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.137 aaron 408: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
409: <p>
410:
1.132 louis 411: <h3>2000</h3>
412:
413: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 414: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
415: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
416: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 417: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
418: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
419: <p>
420:
421: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 422: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 423: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 424: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
425: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
426: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
427: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 428: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 429: <p>
430:
431: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 432: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
433: 2000</a></strong>,
434: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.132 louis 435: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
436: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 437: <p>
1.4 millert 438:
1.132 louis 439: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.216 jose 440: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
441: Summit</a></strong>,
442: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 443: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 444: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
445: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
446:
447: <ul>
1.159 miod 448: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
1.215 nick 449: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 450: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
451: </ul>
1.4 millert 452: <p>
1.132 louis 453:
1.7 deraadt 454: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 455: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 456: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 457: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
458: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
459: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
460: mind (drinks afterwards).
461: <p>
462:
1.216 jose 463: <li><strong>
464: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
465: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 466: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
467: questions.
1.32 deraadt 468: <p>
1.1 deraadt 469:
1.132 louis 470: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.216 jose 471: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
472: Revolution</a></strong>,
473: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 474: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
475: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 476: <p>
477:
1.132 louis 478: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 479: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
480: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 481: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
482: <ul>
483: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
484: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 485: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 486: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
487: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
488: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 489: <p>
1.132 louis 490:
1.10 provos 491: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 492: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 493: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 494: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
495: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
496: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
497: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
498: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
499: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
500: <br>
501: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
502: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
503: <p>
1.32 deraadt 504:
1.132 louis 505: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 506: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
507: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
508: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
509: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 510: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
511: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
512: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
513: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
514: and spoke about
515: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
516: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
517: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
518: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 519: <p>
1.132 louis 520:
1.6 deraadt 521: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 522: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 523: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 524: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
525: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
526: <br>
527: Christian Weisgerber gave a
528: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
529: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 530: <p>
1.1 deraadt 531:
1.216 jose 532: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
533: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
534: Conference.</a></strong>,
535: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 536: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
537: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
538: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
539: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
540: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 541: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 542: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
543: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
544: <ul>
545:
546: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
547: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 548: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 549: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
550: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
551:
552: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
553: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 554: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 555: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
556: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 557:
1.132 louis 558: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
559: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 560: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 561: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 562: <p>
563:
1.132 louis 564: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 565: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
566: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
567: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 568: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
569: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
570: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 571: <p>
1.2 deraadt 572:
1.132 louis 573: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 574: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
575: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 576: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
577: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
578: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
579: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
580: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 581: <p>
1.11 jkatz 582:
1.17 deraadt 583: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 584: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
585: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 586: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
587: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
588: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
589: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
590: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 591: <p>
1.17 deraadt 592:
1.23 niklas 593: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 594: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
595: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 596: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
597: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
598: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 599: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 600: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
601: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
602: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 603: <p>
1.25 deraadt 604:
1.132 louis 605: <li><strong>
606: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 607: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
608: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 609: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 610: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
611: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
612: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 613: <p>
1.23 niklas 614:
1.31 deraadt 615: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 616: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>NordU 2000 -- The second
617: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
618: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 619: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 620: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
621: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
622: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
623: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 624: <p>
1.31 deraadt 625:
1.201 deraadt 626: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 627: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 628: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
629: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
630: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
631: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 632: <p>
633:
1.132 louis 634: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 635:
1.216 jose 636: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
637: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 638: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 639: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 640: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
641: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
642: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 643: <p>
644:
1.216 jose 645: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
646: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>13th Systems Administration
647: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
648: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 649: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
650: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
651: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
652: There were many other OpenBSD
653: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
654: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
655:
656: <ul>
657: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
658: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 659: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.132 louis 660: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
661: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
662: </ul>
663: <p>
664:
665: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 666: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 667: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 668: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
669: <p>
670:
671: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 672: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>Linux & Open Source
673: Software '99</a></strong>,
674: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 675: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.216 jose 676: <a
677: href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 678: <p>
679:
680: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 681: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>Reflections/Projections
682: 1999</a></strong>,
683: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 684: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
685: developers from the east coast attended as well.
686: <p>
687:
688: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
1.216 jose 689: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
690: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 691: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
692: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
693: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
694: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
695: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
696: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
697: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
698: conference in Stockholm.
699: <p>
700:
701: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 702: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>AUUG'99</a></strong>,
703: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 704: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
705: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
706: coordinated.
707: <p>
708:
709: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 710: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>Usenix
711: Security</a></strong>,
712: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 713: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
714: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
715: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
716: significant security roles.
717: <p>
718:
719: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 720: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>45th IETF
721: meeting</a></strong>,
722: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 723: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
724: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
725: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 726: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 727: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
728: <p>
1.45 jason 729:
1.132 louis 730: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 731: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
732: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 733: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
734: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 735: <p>
1.132 louis 736:
1.216 jose 737: <li><strong><a name=usenix99></a>
1.46 deraadt 738: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
1.216 jose 739: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
740: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 741: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 742: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 743: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
744: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 745: June.)
1.132 louis 746: <br>
1.46 deraadt 747: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 748: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
749:
1.46 deraadt 750: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 751: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 752: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 753: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 754: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.49 deraadt 755: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
756: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 757: <br>
1.66 deraadt 758: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 759: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 760: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.66 deraadt 761: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
762: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 763: <br>
1.66 deraadt 764: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 765: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 766: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
767: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.50 deraadt 768: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
769: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 770: <br>
1.66 deraadt 771: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 772: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 773: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.47 deraadt 774: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
775: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 776: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 777: <p>
1.46 deraadt 778:
1.51 deraadt 779: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 780: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
781: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 782: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
783: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
784: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
785: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
786: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 787: <p>
788:
1.53 jakob 789: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 790: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>44th IETF
791: meeting</a></strong>,
792: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 793: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
794: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 795: <p>
796:
1.132 louis 797: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 798: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
799: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
800: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 801: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
802: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
803: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
804: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 805: <p>
806:
1.132 louis 807: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 808:
1.132 louis 809: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
810: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1.216 jose 811: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
812: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 813: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 814: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 815: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
816: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
817: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
818: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 819: <p>
820:
1.216 jose 821: <li><strong><a name=lisaboston-98></a>
822: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
823: Conference</a></strong>,
824: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 825: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
826: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
827: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
828: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
829: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
830: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
831: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
832: <br>
833: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
834: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
835: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 836: <p>
837:
1.73 deraadt 838: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 839: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 840: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 841: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 842: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.217 jose 843: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 844: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
845: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 846: <p>
1.73 deraadt 847:
1.216 jose 848: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
849: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 850: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
851: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
852: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
853: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
854: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 855: <p>
1.73 deraadt 856:
1.80 deraadt 857: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 858: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
859: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 860: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 861: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 862: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 863: <p>
864:
1.93 louis 865: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 866: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
867: 1998</a></strong>,
868: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA</br>
1.132 louis 869: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
870: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 871: <p>
872:
1.216 jose 873: <li><strong>
874: <a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly and
875: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
876: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 877: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
878: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 879: <p>
880:
1.217 jose 881: <li><strong><a name=defcon98></a>
1.216 jose 882: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI</a></strong>,
883: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 884: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
885: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
886: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
887: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
888: <br>
889: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
890: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
891: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
892: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 893: <p>
1.94 deraadt 894:
1.216 jose 895: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
896: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 897: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
898: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
899: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
900: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
901: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 902: <p>
903:
1.217 jose 904: <li><strong><a name=usenix-neworleans></a>
1.216 jose 905: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
906: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 907: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
908: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
909: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
910: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
911: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
912: <br>
913: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
914: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 915: <p>
916:
1.105 wvdputte 917: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 918: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>Usenix Security</a></strong>,
919: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 920: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
921: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
922: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
923: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 924: <br>
1.132 louis 925: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
926: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 927:
1.132 louis 928: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 929:
1.113 deraadt 930: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 931: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP</a></strong>,
932: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.132 louis 933: Niels held a
934: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
935: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
936: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 937: <p>
1.132 louis 938:
1.216 jose 939: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
940: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 941: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 942: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
943: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 944: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 945:
1.132 louis 946: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
1.216 jose 947: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>Defcon V</a></strong>,
948: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 949: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
950: <br>
951: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 952: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 953: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 954: <p>
955:
1.125 deraadt 956: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 957: <a
958: href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
959: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 960: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
961: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 962:
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