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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>,
1.235 ! wvdputte 36: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1.230 jose 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:
1.235 ! wvdputte 42: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
! 43: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
! 44: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
! 45: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth will be present. Contact
! 46: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> to help. Henning and Alexander von
! 47: Gernler will be giving talks. On Saturday evening, we will have the traditional
! 48: BSD dinner.
! 49: <p>
! 50:
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1.183 wvdputte 52:
1.152 jakob 53: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 68: <h2>Past events:</h2>
69: <dl>
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1.188 henning 71: <h3>2003</h3>
1.232 jose 72: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
73: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
74: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
75: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
76: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
77: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a <a
78: href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
79: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
80:
1.228 jose 81: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
82: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
83: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
84: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
85: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
86: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
87: with OpenBSD PF.
88: <p>
89:
90: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
91: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
92: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
93: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
94: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
95: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
96: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
97: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
98: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the slides in
99: PDF format <a
100: href="http://mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">here</a>
101: (there is a mirror <A
102: href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">here</a>, as well).
103: <p>
104:
1.227 jose 105: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
106: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
107: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
108: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
109: <p>
110:
111: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
112: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
113: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
114: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
115: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
116: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(english)</a>
117: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
118: itojun Hagino presented material covering
119: <A HREF=http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/>
120: IPv6 security considerations</A>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
121: in Internet worm defenses.
122: <p>
123:
1.224 miod 124: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
125: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
126: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
127: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
128: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
129: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
130: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
131: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
132: OpenBSD.
133: <p>
134:
135: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
136: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
137: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
138: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
139: <p>
140:
141: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
142: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
143: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
144: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
145: <p>
146:
1.219 jose 147: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
148: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
149: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
150: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
151: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
152: <p>
153:
1.218 jose 154: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
155: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
156: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
157: Daniel Hartmeier talked about pf, and <a
158: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
159: <p>
160:
1.214 henning 161: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
162: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 163: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 164: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
165: <p>
166:
1.213 jose 167: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
168: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 169: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.213 jose 170: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
171: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
172: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
173: <p>
174:
1.211 jose 175: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
176: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 177: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 178: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
179: <p>
180:
181: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
182: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 183: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 184: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 185: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
186: <p>
187:
1.209 wvdputte 188: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
189: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 190: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 191: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
192: <p>
1.195 deraadt 193:
1.202 jason 194: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.216 jose 195: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
196: Conference</a></strong>,
197: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 198: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
199: <ul>
1.216 jose 200: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 201: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.216 jose 202: Angelos D. Keromytis,
203: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 204: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 205: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
206: </ul>
207: <p>
208:
1.201 deraadt 209: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 210: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 211: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
212: session.
213: <p>
214:
1.216 jose 215: <li><strong>
216: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
217: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 218: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
219: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
220: <p>
221:
1.216 jose 222: <li><strong>
223: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
224: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 225: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 226: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 227: <p>
228:
1.216 jose 229: <li><strong>
230: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
231: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.201 deraadt 232: 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 233: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 234: <p>
235:
1.216 jose 236: <li><strong>
237: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
238: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.196 matthieu 239: Daniel spoke about pf (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1.191 dhartmei 240: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">html</a>).
241: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
242: user groups.
243: <p>
244:
1.216 jose 245: <li><strong>
246: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
247: Group</a></strong>,
248: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 249: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
250: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
251: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
252: <p>
253:
1.216 jose 254: <li><strong>
255: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
256: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.187 henning 257: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current pf developments
1.196 matthieu 258: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 259: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
260: <p>
261:
1.216 jose 262: <li><strong>
263: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
264: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 265: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
266: CD sets and Tshirts.
267: <p>
268:
1.161 millert 269: <h3>2002</h3>
1.216 jose 270: <li><strong>
271: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
272: Congress</a></strong>,
273: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.201 deraadt 274: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1.184 wvdputte 275: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
276: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
277: <p>
1.177 jason 278:
1.216 jose 279: <li><strong>
280: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
281: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 282: OpenBSD people were there;
1.180 henning 283: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 284: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
285: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
286: and Ian Darwin presented a
287: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
288: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 289: <p>
1.178 pb 290:
1.216 jose 291: <li><strong>
292: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
293: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
294: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 295: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
296: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
297: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
298: <p>
299:
1.216 jose 300: <li><strong>
301: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
302: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 303: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
304: Niels Provos presented his
305: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
306: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 307: <p>
1.172 miod 308:
1.216 jose 309: <li><strong>
310: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
311: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 312: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
313: <p>
314:
1.216 jose 315: <li><strong>
316: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
317: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
318: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.168 miod 319: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1.169 horacio 320: had a chance to prove their value.
321: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.168 miod 322: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 323: <p>
1.168 miod 324:
1.216 jose 325: <li><strong>
326: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
327: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 328: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 329: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
330: are available.
1.161 millert 331: <p>
332:
1.216 jose 333: <li><strong>
334: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
335: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 336: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
337: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
338: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
339: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
340: <p>
341:
1.216 jose 342: <li><strong>
343: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
344: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 345: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
346: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
347: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
348: <p>
349:
1.152 jakob 350: <h3>2001</h3>
351:
1.216 jose 352: <li><strong>
353: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
354: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 355: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
356: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
357: <p>
358:
1.216 jose 359: <li><strong>
360: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
361: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 362: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
363: <p>
364:
1.158 deraadt 365: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 366: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
367: 2001</a></strong>,
368: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 369: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
370: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
371: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
372: <p>
373:
1.216 jose 374: <li><strong>
375: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
376: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 377: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
378: <p>
379:
1.201 deraadt 380: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 381: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 382: Jakob and Itojun were there.
383: <p>
1.158 deraadt 384:
1.150 wvdputte 385: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 386: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 387: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 388: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
389: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
390: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 391: <p>
1.137 aaron 392:
393: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 394: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
395: Conference</a></strong>,
396: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 397: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
398: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
399: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
400: <p>
401:
402: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 403: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 404: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 405: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
406: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
407: <p>
408:
409: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 410: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
411: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
412: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 413: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
414: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
415: <p>
416:
417: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 418: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
419: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
420: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 421: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
422: <p>
423:
424: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 425: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 426: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 427: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 428: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
429: security community.
430: <p>
431:
432: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 433: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
434: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
435: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 436: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
437: <p>
438:
439: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 440: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 441: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.137 aaron 442: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
443: <p>
444:
1.132 louis 445: <h3>2000</h3>
446:
447: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 448: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
449: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
450: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 451: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
452: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
453: <p>
454:
455: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 456: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 457: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 458: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
459: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
460: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
461: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 462: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 463: <p>
464:
465: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 466: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
467: 2000</a></strong>,
468: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.132 louis 469: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
470: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 471: <p>
1.4 millert 472:
1.132 louis 473: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.216 jose 474: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
475: Summit</a></strong>,
476: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 477: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 478: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
479: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
480:
481: <ul>
1.159 miod 482: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
1.215 nick 483: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 484: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
485: </ul>
1.4 millert 486: <p>
1.132 louis 487:
1.7 deraadt 488: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 489: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 490: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 491: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
492: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
493: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
494: mind (drinks afterwards).
495: <p>
496:
1.216 jose 497: <li><strong>
498: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
499: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 500: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
501: questions.
1.32 deraadt 502: <p>
1.1 deraadt 503:
1.132 louis 504: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.216 jose 505: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
506: Revolution</a></strong>,
507: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 508: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
509: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 510: <p>
511:
1.132 louis 512: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 513: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
514: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 515: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
516: <ul>
517: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
518: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 519: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 520: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
521: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
522: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 523: <p>
1.132 louis 524:
1.10 provos 525: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 526: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 527: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 528: Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
529: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
530: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
531: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
532: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
533: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
534: <br>
535: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
536: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
537: <p>
1.32 deraadt 538:
1.132 louis 539: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 540: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
541: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
542: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
543: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 544: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
545: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
546: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
547: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
548: and spoke about
549: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
550: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
551: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
552: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 553: <p>
1.132 louis 554:
1.6 deraadt 555: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 556: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 557: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 558: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
559: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
560: <br>
561: Christian Weisgerber gave a
562: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
563: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 564: <p>
1.1 deraadt 565:
1.216 jose 566: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
567: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
568: Conference.</a></strong>,
569: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 570: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
571: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
572: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
573: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
574: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 575: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 576: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
577: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
578: <ul>
579:
580: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
581: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 582: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 583: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
584: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
585:
586: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
587: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 588: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 589: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
590: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 591:
1.132 louis 592: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
593: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 594: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 595: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 596: <p>
597:
1.132 louis 598: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 599: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
600: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
601: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 602: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
603: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
604: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 605: <p>
1.2 deraadt 606:
1.132 louis 607: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 608: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
609: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 610: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
611: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
612: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
613: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
614: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 615: <p>
1.11 jkatz 616:
1.17 deraadt 617: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 618: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
619: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 620: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
621: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
622: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
623: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
624: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 625: <p>
1.17 deraadt 626:
1.23 niklas 627: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 628: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
629: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 630: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
631: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
632: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 633: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 634: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
635: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
636: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 637: <p>
1.25 deraadt 638:
1.132 louis 639: <li><strong>
640: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 641: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
642: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 643: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 644: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
645: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
646: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 647: <p>
1.23 niklas 648:
1.31 deraadt 649: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 650: <a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>NordU 2000 -- The second
651: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
652: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 653: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 654: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
655: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
656: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
657: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 658: <p>
1.31 deraadt 659:
1.201 deraadt 660: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 661: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 662: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
663: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
664: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
665: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 666: <p>
667:
1.132 louis 668: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 669:
1.216 jose 670: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
671: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 672: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 673: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 674: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
675: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
676: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 677: <p>
678:
1.216 jose 679: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
680: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>13th Systems Administration
681: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
682: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 683: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
684: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
685: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
686: There were many other OpenBSD
687: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
688: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
689:
690: <ul>
691: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
692: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 693: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.132 louis 694: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
695: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
696: </ul>
697: <p>
698:
699: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 700: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 701: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 702: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
703: <p>
704:
705: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 706: <a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>Linux & Open Source
707: Software '99</a></strong>,
708: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 709: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.216 jose 710: <a
711: href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 712: <p>
713:
714: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 715: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>Reflections/Projections
716: 1999</a></strong>,
717: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 718: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
719: developers from the east coast attended as well.
720: <p>
721:
722: <li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
1.216 jose 723: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
724: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 725: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
726: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
727: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
728: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
729: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
730: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
731: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
732: conference in Stockholm.
733: <p>
734:
735: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 736: <a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>AUUG'99</a></strong>,
737: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 738: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
739: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
740: coordinated.
741: <p>
742:
743: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 744: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>Usenix
745: Security</a></strong>,
746: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 747: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
748: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
749: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
750: significant security roles.
751: <p>
752:
753: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 754: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>45th IETF
755: meeting</a></strong>,
756: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 757: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
758: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
759: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 760: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 761: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
762: <p>
1.45 jason 763:
1.132 louis 764: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 765: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
766: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 767: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
768: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 769: <p>
1.132 louis 770:
1.216 jose 771: <li><strong><a name=usenix99></a>
1.46 deraadt 772: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
1.216 jose 773: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
774: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 775: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 776: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 777: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
778: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 779: June.)
1.132 louis 780: <br>
1.46 deraadt 781: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 782: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
783:
1.46 deraadt 784: <ul>
1.63 deraadt 785: <a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
1.66 deraadt 786: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.73 deraadt 787: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 788: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.49 deraadt 789: <a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
790: <a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 791: <br>
1.66 deraadt 792: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.73 deraadt 793: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 794: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.66 deraadt 795: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
796: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 797: <br>
1.66 deraadt 798: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.73 deraadt 799: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 800: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
801: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.50 deraadt 802: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
803: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 804: <br>
1.66 deraadt 805: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.73 deraadt 806: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 807: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.47 deraadt 808: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
809: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.132 louis 810: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 811: <p>
1.46 deraadt 812:
1.51 deraadt 813: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 814: <a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
815: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 816: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
817: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
818: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
819: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
820: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 821: <p>
822:
1.53 jakob 823: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 824: <a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>44th IETF
825: meeting</a></strong>,
826: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 827: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
828: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 829: <p>
830:
1.132 louis 831: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 832: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
833: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
834: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 835: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
836: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
837: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
838: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 839: <p>
840:
1.132 louis 841: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 842:
1.132 louis 843: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
844: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1.216 jose 845: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
846: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 847: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.67 niklas 848: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 849: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
850: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
851: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
852: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 853: <p>
854:
1.216 jose 855: <li><strong><a name=lisaboston-98></a>
856: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
857: Conference</a></strong>,
858: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 859: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
860: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
861: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
862: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
863: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
864: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
865: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
866: <br>
867: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
868: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
869: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 870: <p>
871:
1.73 deraadt 872: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 873: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 874: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 875: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 876: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.217 jose 877: <a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 878: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
879: of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 880: <p>
1.73 deraadt 881:
1.216 jose 882: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
883: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 884: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
885: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
886: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
887: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
888: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 889: <p>
1.73 deraadt 890:
1.80 deraadt 891: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 892: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
893: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 894: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 895: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 896: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 897: <p>
898:
1.93 louis 899: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 900: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
901: 1998</a></strong>,
902: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA</br>
1.132 louis 903: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
904: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 905: <p>
906:
1.216 jose 907: <li><strong>
908: <a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly and
909: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
910: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 911: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
912: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 913: <p>
914:
1.217 jose 915: <li><strong><a name=defcon98></a>
1.216 jose 916: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI</a></strong>,
917: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 918: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
919: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
920: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
921: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
922: <br>
923: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
924: at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
925: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
926: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 927: <p>
1.94 deraadt 928:
1.216 jose 929: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
930: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 931: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
932: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
933: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
934: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
935: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 936: <p>
937:
1.217 jose 938: <li><strong><a name=usenix-neworleans></a>
1.216 jose 939: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
940: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 941: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
942: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
943: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
944: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
945: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
946: <br>
947: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
948: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 949: <p>
950:
1.105 wvdputte 951: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 952: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>Usenix Security</a></strong>,
953: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 954: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
955: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
956: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
957: (<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 958: <br>
1.132 louis 959: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
960: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 961:
1.132 louis 962: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 963:
1.113 deraadt 964: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 965: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP</a></strong>,
966: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.132 louis 967: Niels held a
968: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
969: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
970: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 971: <p>
1.132 louis 972:
1.216 jose 973: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
974: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 975: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.132 louis 976: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
977: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 978: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 979:
1.132 louis 980: <li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
1.216 jose 981: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>Defcon V</a></strong>,
982: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 983: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
984: <br>
985: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 986: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.132 louis 987: <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 988: <p>
989:
1.125 deraadt 990: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 991: <a
992: href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
993: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 994: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
995: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.125 deraadt 996:
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