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