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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:
1.220 wvdputte 28: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
29: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
30: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
31: Booth will be present, contact <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> for help.
32: </dl>
33:
34: <h3>2004</h3>
1.198 wvdputte 35: <dl>
1.220 wvdputte 36: <li><strong><a name=NordU2004></a>
37: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2004/index.html">6th NordU/USENIX Conference 2004</a></strong>,
38: Jan 28 - Feb 1, 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
39: Booth will be present, contact <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> for help.
40: <p>
1.214 henning 41:
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1.183 wvdputte 43:
1.152 jakob 44: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 59: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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61:
1.188 henning 62: <h3>2003</h3>
1.228 ! jose 63: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
! 64: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
! 65: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
! 66: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
! 67: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
! 68: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
! 69: with OpenBSD PF.
! 70: <p>
! 71:
! 72: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
! 73: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
! 74: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
! 75: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
! 76: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
! 77: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
! 78: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
! 79: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
! 80: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the slides in
! 81: PDF format <a
! 82: href="http://mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">here</a>
! 83: (there is a mirror <A
! 84: href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">here</a>, as well).
! 85: <p>
! 86:
1.227 jose 87: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
88: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
89: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
90: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
91: <p>
92:
93: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
94: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
95: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
96: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
97: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
98: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(english)</a>
99: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
100: itojun Hagino presented material covering
101: <A HREF=http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/>
102: IPv6 security considerations</A>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
103: in Internet worm defenses.
104: <p>
105:
1.224 miod 106: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
107: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
108: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
109: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
110: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
111: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
112: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
113: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
114: OpenBSD.
115: <p>
116:
117: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
118: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
119: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
120: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
121: <p>
122:
123: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
124: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
125: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
126: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
127: <p>
128:
1.219 jose 129: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
130: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
131: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
132: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
133: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
134: <p>
135:
1.218 jose 136: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
137: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
138: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
139: Daniel Hartmeier talked about pf, and <a
140: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
141: <p>
142:
1.214 henning 143: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
144: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 145: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 146: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
147: <p>
148:
1.213 jose 149: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
150: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 151: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.213 jose 152: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
153: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
154: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
155: <p>
156:
1.211 jose 157: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
158: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 159: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 160: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
161: <p>
162:
163: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
164: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 165: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 166: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 167: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
168: <p>
169:
1.209 wvdputte 170: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
171: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 172: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 173: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
174: <p>
1.195 deraadt 175:
1.202 jason 176: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.216 jose 177: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
178: Conference</a></strong>,
179: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 180: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
181: <ul>
1.216 jose 182: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 183: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.216 jose 184: Angelos D. Keromytis,
185: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 186: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 187: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
188: </ul>
189: <p>
190:
1.201 deraadt 191: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 192: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 193: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
194: session.
195: <p>
196:
1.216 jose 197: <li><strong>
198: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
199: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 200: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
201: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
202: <p>
203:
1.216 jose 204: <li><strong>
205: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
206: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 207: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 208: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 209: <p>
210:
1.216 jose 211: <li><strong>
212: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
213: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.201 deraadt 214: 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 215: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 216: <p>
217:
1.216 jose 218: <li><strong>
219: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
220: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.196 matthieu 221: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1.191 dhartmei 222: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
223: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
224: user groups.
225: <p>
226:
1.216 jose 227: <li><strong>
228: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
229: Group</a></strong>,
230: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 231: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
232: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
233: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
234: <p>
235:
1.216 jose 236: <li><strong>
237: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
238: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.187 henning 239: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
1.196 matthieu 240: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 241: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
242: <p>
243:
1.216 jose 244: <li><strong>
245: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
246: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 247: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
248: CD sets and Tshirts.
249: <p>
250:
1.161 millert 251: <h3>2002</h3>
1.216 jose 252: <li><strong>
253: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
254: Congress</a></strong>,
255: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.201 deraadt 256: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1.184 wvdputte 257: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
258: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
259: <p>
1.177 jason 260:
1.216 jose 261: <li><strong>
262: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
263: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 264: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 265: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 266: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
267: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
268: and Ian Darwin presented a
269: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
270: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 271: <p>
1.178 pb 272:
1.216 jose 273: <li><strong>
274: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
275: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
276: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 277: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
278: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
279: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
280: <p>
281:
1.216 jose 282: <li><strong>
283: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
284: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 285: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
286: Niels Provos presented his
287: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
288: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 289: <p>
1.172 miod 290:
1.216 jose 291: <li><strong>
292: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
293: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 294: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
295: <p>
296:
1.216 jose 297: <li><strong>
298: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
299: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
300: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.168 miod 301: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 302: had a chance to prove their value.
303: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 304: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 305: <p>
1.168 miod 306:
1.216 jose 307: <li><strong>
308: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
309: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 310: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 311: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
312: are available.
1.161 millert 313: <p>
314:
1.216 jose 315: <li><strong>
316: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
317: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 318: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
319: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
320: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
321: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
322: <p>
323:
1.216 jose 324: <li><strong>
325: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
326: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 327: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
328: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
329: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
330: <p>
331:
1.152 jakob 332: <h3>2001</h3>
333:
1.216 jose 334: <li><strong>
335: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
336: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 337: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
338: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
339: <p>
340:
1.216 jose 341: <li><strong>
342: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
343: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 344: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
345: <p>
346:
1.158 deraadt 347: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 348: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
349: 2001</a></strong>,
350: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 351: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
352: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
353: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
354: <p>
355:
1.216 jose 356: <li><strong>
357: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
358: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 359: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
360: <p>
361:
1.201 deraadt 362: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 363: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 364: Jakob and Itojun were there.
365: <p>
1.158 deraadt 366:
1.150 wvdputte 367: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 368: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 369: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 370: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
371: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
372: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 373: <p>
1.137 aaron 374:
375: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 376: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
377: Conference</a></strong>,
378: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 379: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
380: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
381: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
382: <p>
383:
384: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 385: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 386: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 387: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
388: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
389: <p>
390:
391: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 392: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
393: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
394: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 395: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
396: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
397: <p>
398:
399: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 400: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
401: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
402: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 403: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
404: <p>
405:
406: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 407: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 408: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 409: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 410: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
411: security community.
412: <p>
413:
414: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 415: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
416: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
417: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 418: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
419: <p>
420:
421: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 422: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 423: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.137 aaron 424: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
425: <p>
426:
1.132 louis 427: <h3>2000</h3>
428:
429: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 430: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
431: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
432: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 433: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
434: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
435: <p>
436:
437: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 438: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 439: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 440: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
441: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
442: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
443: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 444: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 445: <p>
446:
447: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 448: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
449: 2000</a></strong>,
450: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.132 louis 451: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
452: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 453: <p>
1.4 millert 454:
1.132 louis 455: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.216 jose 456: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
457: Summit</a></strong>,
458: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 459: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 460: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
461: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
462:
463: <ul>
1.159 miod 464: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
1.215 nick 465: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 466: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
467: </ul>
1.4 millert 468: <p>
1.132 louis 469:
1.7 deraadt 470: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 471: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 472: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 473: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
474: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
475: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
476: mind (drinks afterwards).
477: <p>
478:
1.216 jose 479: <li><strong>
480: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
481: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 482: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
483: questions.
1.32 deraadt 484: <p>
1.1 deraadt 485:
1.132 louis 486: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.216 jose 487: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
488: Revolution</a></strong>,
489: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 490: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
491: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 492: <p>
493:
1.132 louis 494: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 495: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
496: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 497: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
498: <ul>
499: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
500: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 501: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 502: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
503: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
504: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 505: <p>
1.132 louis 506:
1.10 provos 507: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 508: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 509: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 510: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
511: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
512: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
513: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
514: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
515: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
516: <br>
517: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
518: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
519: <p>
1.32 deraadt 520:
1.132 louis 521: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 522: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
523: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
524: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
525: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 526: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
527: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
528: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
529: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
530: and spoke about
531: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
532: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
533: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
534: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 535: <p>
1.132 louis 536:
1.6 deraadt 537: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 538: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 539: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 540: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
541: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
542: <br>
543: Christian Weisgerber gave a
544: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
545: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 546: <p>
1.1 deraadt 547:
1.216 jose 548: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
549: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
550: Conference.</a></strong>,
551: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 552: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
553: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
554: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
555: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
556: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 557: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 558: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
559: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
560: <ul>
561:
562: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
563: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 564: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 565: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
566: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
567:
568: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
569: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 570: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 571: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
572: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 573:
1.132 louis 574: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
575: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 576: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 577: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 578: <p>
579:
1.132 louis 580: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 581: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
582: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
583: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 584: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
585: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
586: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 587: <p>
1.2 deraadt 588:
1.132 louis 589: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 590: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
591: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 592: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
593: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
594: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
595: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
596: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 597: <p>
1.11 jkatz 598:
1.17 deraadt 599: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 600: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
601: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 602: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
603: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
604: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
605: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
606: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 607: <p>
1.17 deraadt 608:
1.23 niklas 609: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 610: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
611: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 612: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
613: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
614: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 615: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 616: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
617: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
618: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 619: <p>
1.25 deraadt 620:
1.132 louis 621: <li><strong>
622: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 623: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
624: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 625: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 626: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
627: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
628: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 629: <p>
1.23 niklas 630:
1.31 deraadt 631: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 632: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>NordU 2000 -- The second
633: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
634: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 635: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 636: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
637: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
638: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
639: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 640: <p>
1.31 deraadt 641:
1.201 deraadt 642: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 643: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 644: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
645: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
646: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
647: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 648: <p>
649:
1.132 louis 650: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 651:
1.216 jose 652: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
653: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 654: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 655: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 656: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
657: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
658: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 659: <p>
660:
1.216 jose 661: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
662: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>13th Systems Administration
663: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
664: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 665: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
666: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
667: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
668: There were many other OpenBSD
669: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
670: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
671:
672: <ul>
673: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
674: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 675: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.132 louis 676: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
677: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
678: </ul>
679: <p>
680:
681: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 682: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 683: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 684: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
685: <p>
686:
687: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 688: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>Linux & Open Source
689: Software '99</a></strong>,
690: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 691: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.216 jose 692: <a
693: href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 694: <p>
695:
696: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 697: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>Reflections/Projections
698: 1999</a></strong>,
699: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 700: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
701: developers from the east coast attended as well.
702: <p>
703:
704: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
1.216 jose 705: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
706: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 707: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
708: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
709: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
710: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
711: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
712: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
713: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
714: conference in Stockholm.
715: <p>
716:
717: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 718: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>AUUG'99</a></strong>,
719: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 720: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
721: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
722: coordinated.
723: <p>
724:
725: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 726: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>Usenix
727: Security</a></strong>,
728: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 729: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
730: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
731: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
732: significant security roles.
733: <p>
734:
735: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 736: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>45th IETF
737: meeting</a></strong>,
738: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 739: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
740: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
741: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 742: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 743: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
744: <p>
1.45 jason 745:
1.132 louis 746: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 747: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
748: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 749: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
750: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 751: <p>
1.132 louis 752:
1.216 jose 753: <li><strong><a name=usenix99></a>
1.46 deraadt 754: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
1.216 jose 755: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
756: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 757: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 758: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 759: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
760: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 761: June.)
1.132 louis 762: <br>
1.46 deraadt 763: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 764: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
765:
1.46 deraadt 766: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 767: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 768: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 769: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 770: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.49 deraadt 771: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
772: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 773: <br>
1.66 deraadt 774: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 775: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 776: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.66 deraadt 777: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
778: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 779: <br>
1.66 deraadt 780: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 781: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 782: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
783: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.50 deraadt 784: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
785: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 786: <br>
1.66 deraadt 787: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 788: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 789: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.47 deraadt 790: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
791: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 792: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 793: <p>
1.46 deraadt 794:
1.51 deraadt 795: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 796: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
797: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 798: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
799: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
800: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
801: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
802: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 803: <p>
804:
1.53 jakob 805: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 806: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>44th IETF
807: meeting</a></strong>,
808: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 809: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
810: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 811: <p>
812:
1.132 louis 813: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 814: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
815: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
816: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 817: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
818: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
819: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
820: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 821: <p>
822:
1.132 louis 823: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 824:
1.132 louis 825: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
826: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1.216 jose 827: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
828: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 829: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 830: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 831: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
832: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
833: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
834: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 835: <p>
836:
1.216 jose 837: <li><strong><a name=lisaboston-98></a>
838: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
839: Conference</a></strong>,
840: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 841: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
842: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
843: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
844: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
845: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
846: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
847: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
848: <br>
849: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
850: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
851: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 852: <p>
853:
1.73 deraadt 854: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 855: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 856: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 857: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 858: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.217 jose 859: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 860: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
861: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 862: <p>
1.73 deraadt 863:
1.216 jose 864: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
865: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 866: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
867: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
868: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
869: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
870: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 871: <p>
1.73 deraadt 872:
1.80 deraadt 873: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 874: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
875: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 876: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 877: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 878: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 879: <p>
880:
1.93 louis 881: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 882: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
883: 1998</a></strong>,
884: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA</br>
1.132 louis 885: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
886: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 887: <p>
888:
1.216 jose 889: <li><strong>
890: <a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly and
891: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
892: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 893: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
894: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 895: <p>
896:
1.217 jose 897: <li><strong><a name=defcon98></a>
1.216 jose 898: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI</a></strong>,
899: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 900: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
901: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
902: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
903: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
904: <br>
905: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
906: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
907: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
908: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 909: <p>
1.94 deraadt 910:
1.216 jose 911: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
912: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 913: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
914: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
915: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
916: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
917: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 918: <p>
919:
1.217 jose 920: <li><strong><a name=usenix-neworleans></a>
1.216 jose 921: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
922: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 923: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
924: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
925: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
926: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
927: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
928: <br>
929: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
930: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 931: <p>
932:
1.105 wvdputte 933: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 934: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>Usenix Security</a></strong>,
935: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 936: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
937: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
938: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
939: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 940: <br>
1.132 louis 941: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
942: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 943:
1.132 louis 944: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 945:
1.113 deraadt 946: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 947: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP</a></strong>,
948: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.132 louis 949: Niels held a
950: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
951: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
952: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 953: <p>
1.132 louis 954:
1.216 jose 955: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
956: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 957: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 958: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
959: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 960: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 961:
1.132 louis 962: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
1.216 jose 963: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>Defcon V</a></strong>,
964: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 965: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
966: <br>
967: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 968: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 969: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 970: <p>
971:
1.125 deraadt 972: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 973: <a
974: href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
975: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 976: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
977: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 978:
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