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1.236 jose 15: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
16: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
17: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
18: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 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>
1.236 jose 26:
27: <ul>
1.230 jose 28: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1.231 jose 29: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1.235 wvdputte 30: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1.230 jose 31: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth will be present. Contact
1.231 jose 32: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> or
1.230 jose 33: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> to help.
34: <p>
35:
1.235 wvdputte 36: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
37: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
38: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
39: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth will be present. Contact
1.236 jose 40: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> to help. Henning and Alexander von
41: Gernler will be giving talks. On Saturday evening, we will have the traditional
1.235 wvdputte 42: BSD dinner.
43: <p>
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1.152 jakob 46: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 61: <h2>Past events:</h2>
62:
1.188 henning 63: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 64:
65: <ul>
1.232 jose 66: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
67: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
68: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
69: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
70: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 71: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
72: <a href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 73: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 74: <p>
1.232 jose 75:
1.228 jose 76: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 77: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 78: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
79: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 80: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
81: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 82: with OpenBSD PF.
83: <p>
84:
85: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
86: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
87: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
88: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
89: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 90: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
91: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
92: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
93: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
94: <a href="http://mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
95: slides in PDF format </a>
96: (they are <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">mirrored</a>, as well).
1.228 jose 97: <p>
98:
1.227 jose 99: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
100: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
101: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
102: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
103: <p>
104:
105: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
106: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
107: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 108: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 109: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 110: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
111: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 112: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 113: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
114: IPv6 security considerations</A>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 115: in Internet worm defenses.
116: <p>
117:
1.224 miod 118: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
119: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
120: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
121: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
122: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
123: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
124: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
125: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
126: OpenBSD.
127: <p>
128:
129: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
130: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
131: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
132: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
133: <p>
134:
135: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
136: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
137: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
138: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
139: <p>
140:
1.219 jose 141: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
142: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
143: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 144: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 145: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
146: <p>
147:
1.218 jose 148: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
149: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
150: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 151: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 152: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
153: <p>
154:
1.214 henning 155: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
156: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 157: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 158: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
159: <p>
160:
1.213 jose 161: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
162: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 163: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 164: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 165: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
166: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
167: <p>
168:
1.211 jose 169: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
170: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 171: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 172: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
173: <p>
174:
175: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
176: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 177: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 178: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 179: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
180: <p>
181:
1.209 wvdputte 182: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
183: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 184: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 185: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
186: <p>
1.195 deraadt 187:
1.202 jason 188: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 189: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 190: Conference</a></strong>,
191: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 192: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
193: <ul>
1.216 jose 194: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 195: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 196: Angelos D. Keromytis,
197: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 198: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 199: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
200: </ul>
201: <p>
202:
1.201 deraadt 203: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 204: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 205: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
206: session.
207: <p>
208:
1.216 jose 209: <li><strong>
210: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
211: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 212: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
213: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
214: <p>
215:
1.216 jose 216: <li><strong>
217: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
218: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 219: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 220: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 221: <p>
222:
1.216 jose 223: <li><strong>
224: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
225: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 226: 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 227: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 228: <p>
229:
1.216 jose 230: <li><strong>
231: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
232: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 233: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
234: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 235: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
236: user groups.
237: <p>
238:
1.236 jose 239: <li><strong>
240: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 241: Group</a></strong>,
242: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 243: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
244: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
245: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
246: <p>
247:
1.216 jose 248: <li><strong>
249: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
250: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 251: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 252: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 253: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
254: <p>
255:
1.216 jose 256: <li><strong>
257: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
258: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 259: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
260: CD sets and Tshirts.
261: <p>
1.236 jose 262: </ul>
1.185 miod 263:
1.161 millert 264: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 265:
266: <ul>
267: <li><strong>
268: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 269: Congress</a></strong>,
270: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 271: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
272: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 273: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
274: <p>
1.177 jason 275:
1.216 jose 276: <li><strong>
277: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
278: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 279: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 280: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 281: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
282: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 283: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 284: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
285: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 286: <p>
1.178 pb 287:
1.216 jose 288: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 289: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 290: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
291: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 292: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
293: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
294: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
295: <p>
296:
1.216 jose 297: <li><strong>
298: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
299: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 300: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
301: Niels Provos presented his
302: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
303: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 304: <p>
1.172 miod 305:
1.216 jose 306: <li><strong>
307: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
308: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 309: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
310: <p>
311:
1.216 jose 312: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 313: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 314: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
315: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 316: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
317: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 318: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 319: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 320: <p>
1.168 miod 321:
1.216 jose 322: <li><strong>
323: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
324: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 325: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 326: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
327: are available.
1.161 millert 328: <p>
329:
1.216 jose 330: <li><strong>
331: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
332: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 333: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
334: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
335: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
336: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
337: <p>
338:
1.216 jose 339: <li><strong>
340: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
341: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 342: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
343: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
344: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
345: <p>
1.236 jose 346: </ul>
1.164 millert 347:
1.152 jakob 348: <h3>2001</h3>
349:
1.236 jose 350: <ul>
1.216 jose 351: <li><strong>
352: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
353: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 354: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
355: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
356: <p>
357:
1.216 jose 358: <li><strong>
359: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
360: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 361: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
362: <p>
363:
1.158 deraadt 364: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 365: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 366: 2001</a></strong>,
367: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 368: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
369: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
370: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
371: <p>
372:
1.216 jose 373: <li><strong>
374: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
375: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 376: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
377: <p>
378:
1.201 deraadt 379: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 380: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 381: Jakob and Itojun were there.
382: <p>
1.158 deraadt 383:
1.150 wvdputte 384: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 385: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 386: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 387: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
388: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
389: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 390: <p>
1.137 aaron 391:
392: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 393: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 394: Conference</a></strong>,
395: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 396: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
397: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
398: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
399: <p>
400:
401: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 402: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 403: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 404: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
405: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
406: <p>
407:
408: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 409: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 410: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
411: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 412: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
413: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
414: <p>
415:
416: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 417: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 418: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
419: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 420: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
421: <p>
422:
423: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 424: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 425: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 426: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 427: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
428: security community.
429: <p>
430:
431: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 432: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 433: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
434: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 435: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
436: <p>
437:
438: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 439: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 440: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 441: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 442: <p>
1.236 jose 443: </ul>
1.137 aaron 444:
1.132 louis 445: <h3>2000</h3>
446:
1.236 jose 447: <ul>
1.132 louis 448: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 449: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 450: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
451: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 452: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
453: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
454: <p>
455:
456: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 457: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 458: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 459: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
460: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
461: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
462: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 463: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 464: <p>
465:
466: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 467: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 468: 2000</a></strong>,
469: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 470: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 471: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 472: <p>
1.4 millert 473:
1.132 louis 474: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 475: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 476: Summit</a></strong>,
477: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 478: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 479: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
480: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
481:
482: <ul>
1.236 jose 483: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 484: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 485: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
486: </ul>
1.4 millert 487: <p>
1.132 louis 488:
1.7 deraadt 489: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 490: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 491: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 492: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
493: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 494: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 495: mind (drinks afterwards).
496: <p>
497:
1.216 jose 498: <li><strong>
499: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
500: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 501: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
502: questions.
1.32 deraadt 503: <p>
1.1 deraadt 504:
1.132 louis 505: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 506: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 507: Revolution</a></strong>,
508: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 509: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
510: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 511: <p>
512:
1.132 louis 513: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 514: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
515: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 516: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
517: <ul>
1.236 jose 518: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 519: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 520: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 521: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
522: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
523: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 524: <p>
1.132 louis 525:
1.10 provos 526: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 527: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 528: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 529: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 530: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
531: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
532: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
533: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
534: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
535: <br>
536: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
537: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
538: <p>
1.32 deraadt 539:
1.132 louis 540: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 541: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 542: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
543: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
544: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 545: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
546: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
547: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
548: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
549: and spoke about
550: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
551: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
552: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 553: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 554: <p>
1.132 louis 555:
1.6 deraadt 556: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 557: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 558: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 559: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
560: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
561: <br>
562: Christian Weisgerber gave a
563: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
564: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 565: <p>
1.1 deraadt 566:
1.216 jose 567: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 568: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 569: Conference.</a></strong>,
570: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 571: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
572: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
573: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
574: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
575: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 576: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 577: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
578: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
579: <ul>
580:
581: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
582: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 583: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 584: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
585: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
586:
587: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
588: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 589: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 590: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
591: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 592:
1.132 louis 593: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
594: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 595: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 596: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 597: <p>
598:
1.132 louis 599: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 600: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 601: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
602: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 603: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
604: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
605: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 606: <p>
1.2 deraadt 607:
1.132 louis 608: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 609: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
610: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 611: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
612: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
613: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
614: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
615: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 616: <p>
1.11 jkatz 617:
1.17 deraadt 618: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 619: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
620: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 621: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
622: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
623: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
624: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
625: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 626: <p>
1.17 deraadt 627:
1.23 niklas 628: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 629: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
630: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 631: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
632: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
633: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 634: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 635: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
636: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
637: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 638: <p>
1.25 deraadt 639:
1.132 louis 640: <li><strong>
641: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 642: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
643: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 644: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 645: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
646: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
647: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 648: <p>
1.23 niklas 649:
1.31 deraadt 650: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 651: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 652: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
653: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 654: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 655: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
656: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
657: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
658: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 659: <p>
1.31 deraadt 660:
1.201 deraadt 661: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 662: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 663: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
664: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
665: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
666: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 667: <p>
1.236 jose 668: </ul>
1.33 niklas 669:
1.132 louis 670: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 671:
1.236 jose 672: <ul>
1.216 jose 673: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
674: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 675: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 676: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 677: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
678: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
679: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 680: <p>
681:
1.216 jose 682: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 683: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 684: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
685: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 686: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
687: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
688: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
689: There were many other OpenBSD
690: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
691: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
692:
693: <ul>
694: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 695: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 696: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 697: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
698: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 699: </ul>
700: <p>
701:
702: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 703: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 704: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 705: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
706: <p>
707:
708: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 709: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 710: Software '99</a></strong>,
711: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 712: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 713: <a
714: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 715: <p>
716:
717: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 718: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 719: 1999</a></strong>,
720: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 721: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
722: developers from the east coast attended as well.
723: <p>
724:
1.236 jose 725: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 726: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
727: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 728: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
729: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 730: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
731: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
732: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
733: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
734: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
735: conference in Stockholm.
736: <p>
737:
738: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 739: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 740: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 741: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
742: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
743: coordinated.
744: <p>
745:
746: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 747: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 748: Security</a></strong>,
749: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 750: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
751: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
752: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
753: significant security roles.
754: <p>
755:
756: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 757: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 758: meeting</a></strong>,
759: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 760: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
761: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
762: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 763: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 764: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
765: <p>
1.45 jason 766:
1.132 louis 767: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 768: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 769: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 770: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
771: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 772: <p>
1.132 louis 773:
1.236 jose 774: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
775: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 776: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
777: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 778: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 779: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 780: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
781: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 782: June.)
1.132 louis 783: <br>
1.46 deraadt 784: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 785: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
786:
1.46 deraadt 787: <ul>
1.236 jose 788: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 789: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 790: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 791: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 792: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
793: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 794: <br>
1.66 deraadt 795: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 796: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 797: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 798: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
799: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 800: <br>
1.66 deraadt 801: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 802: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 803: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
804: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 805: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
806: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 807: <br>
1.66 deraadt 808: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 809: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 810: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 811: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
812: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 813: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 814: <p>
1.46 deraadt 815:
1.51 deraadt 816: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 817: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 818: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 819: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
820: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
821: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
822: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
823: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 824: <p>
825:
1.53 jakob 826: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 827: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 828: meeting</a></strong>,
829: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 830: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
831: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 832: <p>
833:
1.132 louis 834: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 835: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 836: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
837: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 838: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
839: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
840: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
841: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 842: <p>
1.236 jose 843: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 844:
1.132 louis 845: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 846:
1.236 jose 847: <ul>
1.132 louis 848: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 849: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
850: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 851: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 852: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 853: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 854: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
855: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
856: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
857: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 858: <p>
859:
1.236 jose 860: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
861: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 862: Conference</a></strong>,
863: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 864: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
865: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
866: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
867: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
868: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
869: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
870: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
871: <br>
872: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
873: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
874: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 875: <p>
876:
1.73 deraadt 877: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 878: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 879: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 880: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 881: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 882: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 883: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 884: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 885: <p>
1.73 deraadt 886:
1.236 jose 887: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 888: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 889: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
890: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
891: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
892: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
893: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 894: <p>
1.73 deraadt 895:
1.80 deraadt 896: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 897: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
898: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 899: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 900: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 901: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 902: <p>
903:
1.93 louis 904: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 905: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 906: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 907: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 908: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
909: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 910: <p>
911:
1.216 jose 912: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 913: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
914: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 915: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 916: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
917: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 918: <p>
919:
1.236 jose 920: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
921: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 922: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 923: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
924: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
925: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
926: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
927: <br>
928: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 929: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 930: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
931: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 932: <p>
1.94 deraadt 933:
1.236 jose 934: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 935: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 936: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
937: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
938: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
939: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
940: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 941: <p>
942:
1.236 jose 943: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
944: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 945: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 946: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
947: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
948: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
949: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
950: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
951: <br>
952: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
953: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 954: <p>
955:
1.105 wvdputte 956: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 957: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 958: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 959: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
960: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
961: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 962: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 963: <br>
1.132 louis 964: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
965: <p>
1.236 jose 966: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 967:
1.132 louis 968: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 969:
1.236 jose 970: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 971: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 972: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 973: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 974: Niels held a
975: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 976: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
977: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 978: <p>
1.132 louis 979:
1.236 jose 980: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 981: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 982: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 983: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 984: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 985: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 986:
1.236 jose 987: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
988: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 989: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 990: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
991: <br>
992: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 993: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 994: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 995: <p>
996:
1.125 deraadt 997: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 998: <a
999: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1000: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1001: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1002: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1003: </ul>
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