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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>2004</h3>
1.198 wvdputte 26: <dl>
1.220 wvdputte 27: <li><strong><a name=NordU2004></a>
28: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2004/index.html">6th NordU/USENIX Conference 2004</a></strong>,
29: Jan 28 - Feb 1, 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.229 jose 30: Booth will be present, contact <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> to
31: help.
1.220 wvdputte 32: <p>
1.214 henning 33:
1.230 jose 34: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1.231 jose 35: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1.230 jose 36: Feb 4 - 6, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
37: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth will be present. Contact
1.231 jose 38: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> or
1.230 jose 39: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> to help.
40: <p>
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>
60: <dl>
61:
1.188 henning 62: <h3>2003</h3>
1.232 jose 63: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
64: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
65: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
66: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
67: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
68: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a <a
69: href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
70: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
71: </dl>
72:
1.228 jose 73: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
74: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
75: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
76: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
77: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
78: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
79: with OpenBSD PF.
80: <p>
81:
82: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
83: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
84: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
85: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
86: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
87: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
88: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
89: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
90: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the slides in
91: PDF format <a
92: href="http://mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">here</a>
93: (there is a mirror <A
94: href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">here</a>, as well).
95: <p>
96:
1.227 jose 97: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
98: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
99: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
100: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
101: <p>
102:
103: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
104: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
105: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
106: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
107: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
108: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(english)</a>
109: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
110: itojun Hagino presented material covering
111: <A HREF=http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/>
112: IPv6 security considerations</A>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
113: in Internet worm defenses.
114: <p>
115:
1.224 miod 116: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
117: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
118: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
119: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
120: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
121: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
122: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
123: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
124: OpenBSD.
125: <p>
126:
127: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
128: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
129: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
130: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
131: <p>
132:
133: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
134: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
135: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
136: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
137: <p>
138:
1.219 jose 139: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
140: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
141: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
142: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
143: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
144: <p>
145:
1.218 jose 146: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
147: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
148: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
149: Daniel Hartmeier talked about pf, and <a
150: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
151: <p>
152:
1.214 henning 153: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
154: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 155: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 156: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
157: <p>
158:
1.213 jose 159: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
160: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 161: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.213 jose 162: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
163: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
164: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
165: <p>
166:
1.211 jose 167: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
168: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 169: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 170: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
171: <p>
172:
173: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
174: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 175: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 176: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 177: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
178: <p>
179:
1.209 wvdputte 180: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
181: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 182: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 183: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
184: <p>
1.195 deraadt 185:
1.202 jason 186: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.216 jose 187: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
188: Conference</a></strong>,
189: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 190: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
191: <ul>
1.216 jose 192: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 193: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.216 jose 194: Angelos D. Keromytis,
195: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 196: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 197: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
198: </ul>
199: <p>
200:
1.201 deraadt 201: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 202: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 203: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
204: session.
205: <p>
206:
1.216 jose 207: <li><strong>
208: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
209: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 210: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
211: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
212: <p>
213:
1.216 jose 214: <li><strong>
215: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
216: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 217: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 218: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 219: <p>
220:
1.216 jose 221: <li><strong>
222: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
223: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.201 deraadt 224: 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 225: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 226: <p>
227:
1.216 jose 228: <li><strong>
229: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
230: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.196 matthieu 231: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1.191 dhartmei 232: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
233: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
234: user groups.
235: <p>
236:
1.216 jose 237: <li><strong>
238: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
239: Group</a></strong>,
240: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 241: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
242: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
243: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
244: <p>
245:
1.216 jose 246: <li><strong>
247: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
248: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.187 henning 249: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
1.196 matthieu 250: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 251: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
252: <p>
253:
1.216 jose 254: <li><strong>
255: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
256: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 257: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
258: CD sets and Tshirts.
259: <p>
260:
1.161 millert 261: <h3>2002</h3>
1.216 jose 262: <li><strong>
263: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
264: Congress</a></strong>,
265: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.201 deraadt 266: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1.184 wvdputte 267: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
268: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
269: <p>
1.177 jason 270:
1.216 jose 271: <li><strong>
272: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
273: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 274: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 275: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 276: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
277: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
278: and Ian Darwin presented a
279: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
280: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 281: <p>
1.178 pb 282:
1.216 jose 283: <li><strong>
284: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
285: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
286: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 287: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
288: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
289: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
290: <p>
291:
1.216 jose 292: <li><strong>
293: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
294: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 295: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
296: Niels Provos presented his
297: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
298: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 299: <p>
1.172 miod 300:
1.216 jose 301: <li><strong>
302: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
303: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 304: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
305: <p>
306:
1.216 jose 307: <li><strong>
308: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
309: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
310: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.168 miod 311: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 312: had a chance to prove their value.
313: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 314: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 315: <p>
1.168 miod 316:
1.216 jose 317: <li><strong>
318: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
319: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 320: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 321: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
322: are available.
1.161 millert 323: <p>
324:
1.216 jose 325: <li><strong>
326: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
327: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 328: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
329: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
330: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
331: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
332: <p>
333:
1.216 jose 334: <li><strong>
335: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
336: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 337: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
338: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
339: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
340: <p>
341:
1.152 jakob 342: <h3>2001</h3>
343:
1.216 jose 344: <li><strong>
345: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
346: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 347: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
348: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
349: <p>
350:
1.216 jose 351: <li><strong>
352: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
353: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 354: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
355: <p>
356:
1.158 deraadt 357: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 358: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
359: 2001</a></strong>,
360: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 361: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
362: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
363: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
364: <p>
365:
1.216 jose 366: <li><strong>
367: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
368: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 369: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
370: <p>
371:
1.201 deraadt 372: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 373: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 374: Jakob and Itojun were there.
375: <p>
1.158 deraadt 376:
1.150 wvdputte 377: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 378: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 379: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 380: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
381: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
382: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 383: <p>
1.137 aaron 384:
385: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 386: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
387: Conference</a></strong>,
388: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 389: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
390: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
391: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
392: <p>
393:
394: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 395: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 396: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 397: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
398: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
399: <p>
400:
401: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 402: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
403: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
404: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 405: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
406: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
407: <p>
408:
409: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 410: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
411: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
412: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 413: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
414: <p>
415:
416: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 417: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 418: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 419: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 420: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
421: security community.
422: <p>
423:
424: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 425: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
426: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
427: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 428: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
429: <p>
430:
431: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 432: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 433: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.137 aaron 434: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
435: <p>
436:
1.132 louis 437: <h3>2000</h3>
438:
439: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 440: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
441: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
442: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 443: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
444: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
445: <p>
446:
447: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 448: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 449: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 450: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
451: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
452: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
453: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 454: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 455: <p>
456:
457: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 458: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
459: 2000</a></strong>,
460: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.132 louis 461: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
462: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 463: <p>
1.4 millert 464:
1.132 louis 465: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.216 jose 466: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
467: Summit</a></strong>,
468: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 469: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 470: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
471: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
472:
473: <ul>
1.159 miod 474: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
1.215 nick 475: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 476: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
477: </ul>
1.4 millert 478: <p>
1.132 louis 479:
1.7 deraadt 480: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 481: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 482: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 483: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
484: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
485: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
486: mind (drinks afterwards).
487: <p>
488:
1.216 jose 489: <li><strong>
490: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
491: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 492: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
493: questions.
1.32 deraadt 494: <p>
1.1 deraadt 495:
1.132 louis 496: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.216 jose 497: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
498: Revolution</a></strong>,
499: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 500: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
501: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 502: <p>
503:
1.132 louis 504: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 505: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
506: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 507: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
508: <ul>
509: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
510: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 511: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 512: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
513: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
514: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 515: <p>
1.132 louis 516:
1.10 provos 517: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 518: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 519: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 520: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
521: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
522: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
523: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
524: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
525: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
526: <br>
527: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
528: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
529: <p>
1.32 deraadt 530:
1.132 louis 531: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 532: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
533: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
534: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
535: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 536: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
537: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
538: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
539: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
540: and spoke about
541: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
542: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
543: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
544: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 545: <p>
1.132 louis 546:
1.6 deraadt 547: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 548: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 549: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 550: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
551: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
552: <br>
553: Christian Weisgerber gave a
554: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
555: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 556: <p>
1.1 deraadt 557:
1.216 jose 558: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
559: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
560: Conference.</a></strong>,
561: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 562: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
563: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
564: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
565: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
566: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 567: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 568: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
569: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
570: <ul>
571:
572: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
573: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 574: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 575: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
576: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
577:
578: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
579: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 580: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 581: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
582: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 583:
1.132 louis 584: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
585: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 586: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 587: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 588: <p>
589:
1.132 louis 590: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 591: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
592: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
593: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 594: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
595: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
596: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 597: <p>
1.2 deraadt 598:
1.132 louis 599: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 600: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
601: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 602: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
603: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
604: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
605: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
606: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 607: <p>
1.11 jkatz 608:
1.17 deraadt 609: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 610: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
611: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 612: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
613: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
614: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
615: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
616: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 617: <p>
1.17 deraadt 618:
1.23 niklas 619: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 620: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
621: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 622: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
623: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
624: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 625: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 626: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
627: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
628: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 629: <p>
1.25 deraadt 630:
1.132 louis 631: <li><strong>
632: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 633: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
634: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 635: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 636: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
637: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
638: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 639: <p>
1.23 niklas 640:
1.31 deraadt 641: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 642: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>NordU 2000 -- The second
643: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
644: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 645: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 646: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
647: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
648: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
649: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 650: <p>
1.31 deraadt 651:
1.201 deraadt 652: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 653: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 654: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
655: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
656: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
657: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 658: <p>
659:
1.132 louis 660: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 661:
1.216 jose 662: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
663: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 664: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 665: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 666: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
667: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
668: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 669: <p>
670:
1.216 jose 671: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
672: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>13th Systems Administration
673: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
674: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 675: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
676: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
677: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
678: There were many other OpenBSD
679: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
680: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
681:
682: <ul>
683: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
684: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 685: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.132 louis 686: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
687: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
688: </ul>
689: <p>
690:
691: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 692: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 693: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 694: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
695: <p>
696:
697: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 698: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>Linux & Open Source
699: Software '99</a></strong>,
700: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 701: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.216 jose 702: <a
703: href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 704: <p>
705:
706: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 707: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>Reflections/Projections
708: 1999</a></strong>,
709: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 710: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
711: developers from the east coast attended as well.
712: <p>
713:
714: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
1.216 jose 715: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
716: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 717: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
718: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
719: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
720: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
721: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
722: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
723: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
724: conference in Stockholm.
725: <p>
726:
727: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 728: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>AUUG'99</a></strong>,
729: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 730: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
731: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
732: coordinated.
733: <p>
734:
735: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 736: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>Usenix
737: Security</a></strong>,
738: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 739: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
740: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
741: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
742: significant security roles.
743: <p>
744:
745: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 746: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>45th IETF
747: meeting</a></strong>,
748: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 749: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
750: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
751: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 752: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 753: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
754: <p>
1.45 jason 755:
1.132 louis 756: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 757: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
758: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 759: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
760: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 761: <p>
1.132 louis 762:
1.216 jose 763: <li><strong><a name=usenix99></a>
1.46 deraadt 764: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
1.216 jose 765: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
766: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 767: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 768: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 769: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
770: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 771: June.)
1.132 louis 772: <br>
1.46 deraadt 773: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 774: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
775:
1.46 deraadt 776: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 777: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 778: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 779: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 780: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.49 deraadt 781: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
782: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 783: <br>
1.66 deraadt 784: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 785: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 786: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.66 deraadt 787: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
788: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 789: <br>
1.66 deraadt 790: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 791: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 792: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
793: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.50 deraadt 794: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
795: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 796: <br>
1.66 deraadt 797: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 798: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 799: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.47 deraadt 800: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
801: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 802: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 803: <p>
1.46 deraadt 804:
1.51 deraadt 805: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 806: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
807: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 808: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
809: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
810: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
811: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
812: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 813: <p>
814:
1.53 jakob 815: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 816: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>44th IETF
817: meeting</a></strong>,
818: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 819: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
820: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 821: <p>
822:
1.132 louis 823: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 824: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
825: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
826: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 827: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
828: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
829: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
830: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 831: <p>
832:
1.132 louis 833: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 834:
1.132 louis 835: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
836: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1.216 jose 837: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
838: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 839: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 840: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 841: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
842: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
843: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
844: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 845: <p>
846:
1.216 jose 847: <li><strong><a name=lisaboston-98></a>
848: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
849: Conference</a></strong>,
850: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 851: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
852: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
853: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
854: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
855: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
856: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
857: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
858: <br>
859: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
860: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
861: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 862: <p>
863:
1.73 deraadt 864: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 865: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 866: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 867: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 868: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.217 jose 869: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 870: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
871: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 872: <p>
1.73 deraadt 873:
1.216 jose 874: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
875: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 876: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
877: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
878: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
879: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
880: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 881: <p>
1.73 deraadt 882:
1.80 deraadt 883: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 884: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
885: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 886: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 887: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 888: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 889: <p>
890:
1.93 louis 891: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 892: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
893: 1998</a></strong>,
894: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA</br>
1.132 louis 895: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
896: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 897: <p>
898:
1.216 jose 899: <li><strong>
900: <a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly and
901: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
902: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 903: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
904: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 905: <p>
906:
1.217 jose 907: <li><strong><a name=defcon98></a>
1.216 jose 908: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI</a></strong>,
909: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 910: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
911: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
912: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
913: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
914: <br>
915: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
916: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
917: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
918: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 919: <p>
1.94 deraadt 920:
1.216 jose 921: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
922: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 923: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
924: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
925: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
926: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
927: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 928: <p>
929:
1.217 jose 930: <li><strong><a name=usenix-neworleans></a>
1.216 jose 931: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
932: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 933: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
934: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
935: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
936: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
937: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
938: <br>
939: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
940: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 941: <p>
942:
1.105 wvdputte 943: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 944: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>Usenix Security</a></strong>,
945: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 946: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
947: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
948: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
949: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 950: <br>
1.132 louis 951: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
952: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 953:
1.132 louis 954: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 955:
1.113 deraadt 956: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 957: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP</a></strong>,
958: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.132 louis 959: Niels held a
960: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
961: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
962: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 963: <p>
1.132 louis 964:
1.216 jose 965: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
966: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 967: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 968: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
969: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 970: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 971:
1.132 louis 972: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
1.216 jose 973: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>Defcon V</a></strong>,
974: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 975: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
976: <br>
977: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 978: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 979: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 980: <p>
981:
1.125 deraadt 982: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 983: <a
984: href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
985: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 986: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
987: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 988:
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