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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>
1.229 ! jose 31: Booth will be present, contact <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> to
! 32: help.
1.220 wvdputte 33: </dl>
34:
35: <h3>2004</h3>
1.198 wvdputte 36: <dl>
1.220 wvdputte 37: <li><strong><a name=NordU2004></a>
38: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2004/index.html">6th NordU/USENIX Conference 2004</a></strong>,
39: Jan 28 - Feb 1, 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.229 ! jose 40: Booth will be present, contact <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> to
! 41: help.
1.220 wvdputte 42: <p>
1.214 henning 43:
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1.152 jakob 46: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 61: <h2>Past events:</h2>
62: <dl>
63:
1.188 henning 64: <h3>2003</h3>
1.228 jose 65: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
66: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
67: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
68: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
69: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
70: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
71: with OpenBSD PF.
72: <p>
73:
74: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
75: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
76: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
77: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
78: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
79: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
80: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
81: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
82: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the slides in
83: PDF format <a
84: href="http://mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">here</a>
85: (there is a mirror <A
86: href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">here</a>, as well).
87: <p>
88:
1.227 jose 89: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
90: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
91: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
92: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
93: <p>
94:
95: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
96: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
97: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
98: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
99: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
100: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(english)</a>
101: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
102: itojun Hagino presented material covering
103: <A HREF=http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/>
104: IPv6 security considerations</A>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
105: in Internet worm defenses.
106: <p>
107:
1.224 miod 108: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
109: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
110: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
111: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
112: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
113: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
114: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
115: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
116: OpenBSD.
117: <p>
118:
119: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
120: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
121: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
122: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
123: <p>
124:
125: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
126: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
127: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
128: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
129: <p>
130:
1.219 jose 131: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
132: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
133: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
134: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
135: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
136: <p>
137:
1.218 jose 138: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
139: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
140: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
141: Daniel Hartmeier talked about pf, and <a
142: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
143: <p>
144:
1.214 henning 145: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
146: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 147: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 148: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
149: <p>
150:
1.213 jose 151: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
152: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 153: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.213 jose 154: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
155: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
156: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
157: <p>
158:
1.211 jose 159: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
160: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 161: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 162: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
163: <p>
164:
165: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
166: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 167: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 168: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 169: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
170: <p>
171:
1.209 wvdputte 172: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
173: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 174: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 175: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
176: <p>
1.195 deraadt 177:
1.202 jason 178: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.216 jose 179: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
180: Conference</a></strong>,
181: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 182: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
183: <ul>
1.216 jose 184: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 185: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.216 jose 186: Angelos D. Keromytis,
187: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 188: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 189: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
190: </ul>
191: <p>
192:
1.201 deraadt 193: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 194: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 195: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
196: session.
197: <p>
198:
1.216 jose 199: <li><strong>
200: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
201: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 202: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
203: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
204: <p>
205:
1.216 jose 206: <li><strong>
207: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
208: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 209: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 210: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 211: <p>
212:
1.216 jose 213: <li><strong>
214: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
215: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.201 deraadt 216: 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 217: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 218: <p>
219:
1.216 jose 220: <li><strong>
221: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
222: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.196 matthieu 223: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1.191 dhartmei 224: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
225: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
226: user groups.
227: <p>
228:
1.216 jose 229: <li><strong>
230: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
231: Group</a></strong>,
232: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 233: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
234: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
235: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
236: <p>
237:
1.216 jose 238: <li><strong>
239: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
240: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.187 henning 241: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
1.196 matthieu 242: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 243: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
244: <p>
245:
1.216 jose 246: <li><strong>
247: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
248: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 249: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
250: CD sets and Tshirts.
251: <p>
252:
1.161 millert 253: <h3>2002</h3>
1.216 jose 254: <li><strong>
255: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
256: Congress</a></strong>,
257: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.201 deraadt 258: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1.184 wvdputte 259: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
260: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
261: <p>
1.177 jason 262:
1.216 jose 263: <li><strong>
264: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
265: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 266: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 267: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 268: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
269: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
270: and Ian Darwin presented a
271: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
272: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 273: <p>
1.178 pb 274:
1.216 jose 275: <li><strong>
276: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
277: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
278: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 279: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
280: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
281: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
282: <p>
283:
1.216 jose 284: <li><strong>
285: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
286: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 287: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
288: Niels Provos presented his
289: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
290: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 291: <p>
1.172 miod 292:
1.216 jose 293: <li><strong>
294: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
295: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 296: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
297: <p>
298:
1.216 jose 299: <li><strong>
300: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
301: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
302: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.168 miod 303: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 304: had a chance to prove their value.
305: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 306: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 307: <p>
1.168 miod 308:
1.216 jose 309: <li><strong>
310: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
311: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 312: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 313: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
314: are available.
1.161 millert 315: <p>
316:
1.216 jose 317: <li><strong>
318: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
319: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 320: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
321: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
322: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
323: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
324: <p>
325:
1.216 jose 326: <li><strong>
327: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
328: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 329: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
330: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
331: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
332: <p>
333:
1.152 jakob 334: <h3>2001</h3>
335:
1.216 jose 336: <li><strong>
337: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
338: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 339: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
340: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
341: <p>
342:
1.216 jose 343: <li><strong>
344: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
345: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 346: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
347: <p>
348:
1.158 deraadt 349: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 350: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
351: 2001</a></strong>,
352: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 353: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
354: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
355: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
356: <p>
357:
1.216 jose 358: <li><strong>
359: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
360: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 361: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
362: <p>
363:
1.201 deraadt 364: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 365: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 366: Jakob and Itojun were there.
367: <p>
1.158 deraadt 368:
1.150 wvdputte 369: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 370: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 371: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 372: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
373: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
374: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 375: <p>
1.137 aaron 376:
377: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 378: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
379: Conference</a></strong>,
380: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 381: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
382: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
383: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
384: <p>
385:
386: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 387: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 388: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 389: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
390: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
391: <p>
392:
393: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 394: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
395: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
396: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 397: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
398: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
399: <p>
400:
401: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 402: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
403: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
404: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 405: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
406: <p>
407:
408: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 409: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 410: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 411: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 412: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
413: security community.
414: <p>
415:
416: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 417: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
418: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
419: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 420: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
421: <p>
422:
423: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 424: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 425: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.137 aaron 426: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
427: <p>
428:
1.132 louis 429: <h3>2000</h3>
430:
431: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 432: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
433: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
434: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 435: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
436: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
437: <p>
438:
439: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 440: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 441: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 442: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
443: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
444: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
445: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 446: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 447: <p>
448:
449: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 450: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
451: 2000</a></strong>,
452: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.132 louis 453: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
454: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 455: <p>
1.4 millert 456:
1.132 louis 457: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.216 jose 458: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
459: Summit</a></strong>,
460: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 461: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 462: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
463: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
464:
465: <ul>
1.159 miod 466: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
1.215 nick 467: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 468: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
469: </ul>
1.4 millert 470: <p>
1.132 louis 471:
1.7 deraadt 472: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 473: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 474: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 475: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
476: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
477: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
478: mind (drinks afterwards).
479: <p>
480:
1.216 jose 481: <li><strong>
482: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
483: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 484: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
485: questions.
1.32 deraadt 486: <p>
1.1 deraadt 487:
1.132 louis 488: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.216 jose 489: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
490: Revolution</a></strong>,
491: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 492: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
493: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 494: <p>
495:
1.132 louis 496: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 497: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
498: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 499: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
500: <ul>
501: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
502: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 503: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 504: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
505: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
506: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 507: <p>
1.132 louis 508:
1.10 provos 509: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 510: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 511: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 512: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
513: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
514: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
515: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
516: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
517: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
518: <br>
519: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
520: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
521: <p>
1.32 deraadt 522:
1.132 louis 523: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 524: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
525: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
526: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
527: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 528: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
529: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
530: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
531: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
532: and spoke about
533: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
534: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
535: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
536: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 537: <p>
1.132 louis 538:
1.6 deraadt 539: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 540: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 541: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 542: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
543: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
544: <br>
545: Christian Weisgerber gave a
546: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
547: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 548: <p>
1.1 deraadt 549:
1.216 jose 550: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
551: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
552: Conference.</a></strong>,
553: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 554: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
555: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
556: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
557: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
558: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 559: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 560: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
561: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
562: <ul>
563:
564: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
565: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 566: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 567: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
568: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
569:
570: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
571: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 572: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 573: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
574: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 575:
1.132 louis 576: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
577: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 578: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 579: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 580: <p>
581:
1.132 louis 582: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 583: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
584: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
585: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 586: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
587: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
588: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 589: <p>
1.2 deraadt 590:
1.132 louis 591: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 592: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
593: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 594: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
595: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
596: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
597: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
598: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 599: <p>
1.11 jkatz 600:
1.17 deraadt 601: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 602: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
603: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 604: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
605: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
606: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
607: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
608: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 609: <p>
1.17 deraadt 610:
1.23 niklas 611: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 612: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
613: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 614: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
615: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
616: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 617: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 618: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
619: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
620: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 621: <p>
1.25 deraadt 622:
1.132 louis 623: <li><strong>
624: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 625: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
626: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 627: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 628: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
629: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
630: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 631: <p>
1.23 niklas 632:
1.31 deraadt 633: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 634: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>NordU 2000 -- The second
635: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
636: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 637: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 638: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
639: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
640: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
641: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 642: <p>
1.31 deraadt 643:
1.201 deraadt 644: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 645: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 646: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
647: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
648: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
649: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 650: <p>
651:
1.132 louis 652: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 653:
1.216 jose 654: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
655: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 656: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 657: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 658: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
659: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
660: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 661: <p>
662:
1.216 jose 663: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
664: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>13th Systems Administration
665: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
666: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 667: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
668: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
669: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
670: There were many other OpenBSD
671: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
672: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
673:
674: <ul>
675: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
676: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 677: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.132 louis 678: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
679: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
680: </ul>
681: <p>
682:
683: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 684: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 685: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 686: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
687: <p>
688:
689: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 690: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>Linux & Open Source
691: Software '99</a></strong>,
692: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 693: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.216 jose 694: <a
695: href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 696: <p>
697:
698: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 699: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>Reflections/Projections
700: 1999</a></strong>,
701: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 702: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
703: developers from the east coast attended as well.
704: <p>
705:
706: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
1.216 jose 707: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
708: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 709: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
710: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
711: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
712: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
713: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
714: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
715: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
716: conference in Stockholm.
717: <p>
718:
719: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 720: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>AUUG'99</a></strong>,
721: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 722: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
723: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
724: coordinated.
725: <p>
726:
727: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 728: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>Usenix
729: Security</a></strong>,
730: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 731: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
732: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
733: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
734: significant security roles.
735: <p>
736:
737: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 738: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>45th IETF
739: meeting</a></strong>,
740: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 741: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
742: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
743: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 744: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 745: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
746: <p>
1.45 jason 747:
1.132 louis 748: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 749: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
750: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 751: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
752: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 753: <p>
1.132 louis 754:
1.216 jose 755: <li><strong><a name=usenix99></a>
1.46 deraadt 756: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
1.216 jose 757: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
758: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 759: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 760: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 761: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
762: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 763: June.)
1.132 louis 764: <br>
1.46 deraadt 765: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 766: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
767:
1.46 deraadt 768: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 769: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 770: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 771: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 772: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.49 deraadt 773: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
774: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 775: <br>
1.66 deraadt 776: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 777: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 778: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.66 deraadt 779: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
780: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 781: <br>
1.66 deraadt 782: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 783: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 784: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
785: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.50 deraadt 786: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
787: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 788: <br>
1.66 deraadt 789: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 790: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 791: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.47 deraadt 792: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
793: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 794: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 795: <p>
1.46 deraadt 796:
1.51 deraadt 797: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 798: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
799: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 800: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
801: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
802: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
803: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
804: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 805: <p>
806:
1.53 jakob 807: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 808: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>44th IETF
809: meeting</a></strong>,
810: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 811: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
812: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 813: <p>
814:
1.132 louis 815: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 816: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
817: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
818: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 819: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
820: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
821: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
822: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 823: <p>
824:
1.132 louis 825: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 826:
1.132 louis 827: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
828: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1.216 jose 829: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
830: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 831: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 832: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 833: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
834: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
835: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
836: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 837: <p>
838:
1.216 jose 839: <li><strong><a name=lisaboston-98></a>
840: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
841: Conference</a></strong>,
842: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 843: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
844: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
845: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
846: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
847: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
848: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
849: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
850: <br>
851: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
852: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
853: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 854: <p>
855:
1.73 deraadt 856: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 857: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 858: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 859: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 860: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.217 jose 861: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 862: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
863: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 864: <p>
1.73 deraadt 865:
1.216 jose 866: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
867: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 868: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
869: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
870: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
871: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
872: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 873: <p>
1.73 deraadt 874:
1.80 deraadt 875: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 876: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
877: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 878: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 879: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 880: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 881: <p>
882:
1.93 louis 883: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 884: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
885: 1998</a></strong>,
886: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA</br>
1.132 louis 887: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
888: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 889: <p>
890:
1.216 jose 891: <li><strong>
892: <a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly and
893: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
894: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 895: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
896: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 897: <p>
898:
1.217 jose 899: <li><strong><a name=defcon98></a>
1.216 jose 900: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI</a></strong>,
901: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 902: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
903: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
904: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
905: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
906: <br>
907: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
908: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
909: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
910: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 911: <p>
1.94 deraadt 912:
1.216 jose 913: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
914: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 915: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
916: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
917: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
918: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
919: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 920: <p>
921:
1.217 jose 922: <li><strong><a name=usenix-neworleans></a>
1.216 jose 923: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
924: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 925: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
926: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
927: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
928: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
929: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
930: <br>
931: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
932: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 933: <p>
934:
1.105 wvdputte 935: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 936: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>Usenix Security</a></strong>,
937: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 938: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
939: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
940: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
941: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 942: <br>
1.132 louis 943: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
944: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 945:
1.132 louis 946: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 947:
1.113 deraadt 948: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 949: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP</a></strong>,
950: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.132 louis 951: Niels held a
952: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
953: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
954: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 955: <p>
1.132 louis 956:
1.216 jose 957: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
958: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 959: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 960: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
961: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 962: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 963:
1.132 louis 964: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
1.216 jose 965: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>Defcon V</a></strong>,
966: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 967: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
968: <br>
969: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 970: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 971: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 972: <p>
973:
1.125 deraadt 974: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 975: <a
976: href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
977: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 978: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
979: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 980:
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