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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>
1.238 jose 28: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
29: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
30: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
31: Wes Sonnenreich and others have established a BSD user group in NYC and
32: will be holding a BSD BoF at the Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at
33: 5:45pm, Room 1E15. Contact <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a>
34: if you are interested in helping.
35: <p>
36:
1.230 jose 37: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1.231 jose 38: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1.235 wvdputte 39: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1.230 jose 40: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth will be present. Contact
1.231 jose 41: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> or
1.230 jose 42: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> to help.
43: <p>
44:
1.235 wvdputte 45: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
46: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
47: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
48: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth will be present. Contact
1.236 jose 49: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> to help. Henning and Alexander von
50: Gernler will be giving talks. On Saturday evening, we will have the traditional
1.235 wvdputte 51: BSD dinner.
52: <p>
1.239 ! jose 53:
! 54: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
! 55: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
! 56: May 13 - 15, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
! 57: BSDCan is a developers conference with a strong focus on emerging
! 58: technologies, research projects, and works in progress. It also
! 59: features userland infrastructure projects and invites contribution
! 60: from both free software developers and those from commercial vendors.
! 61: BSDCan will be held at the University of Ottawa.
! 62: <p>
1.236 jose 63: </ul>
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1.152 jakob 80: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.188 henning 82: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 83:
84: <ul>
1.232 jose 85: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
86: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
87: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
88: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
89: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 90: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
91: <a href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 92: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 93: <p>
1.232 jose 94:
1.228 jose 95: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 96: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 97: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
98: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 99: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
100: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 101: with OpenBSD PF.
102: <p>
103:
104: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
105: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
106: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
107: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
108: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 109: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
110: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
111: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
112: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
113: <a href="http://mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
114: slides in PDF format </a>
115: (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 116: <p>
117:
1.227 jose 118: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
119: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
120: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
121: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
122: <p>
123:
124: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
125: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
126: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 127: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 128: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 129: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
130: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 131: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 132: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
133: IPv6 security considerations</A>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 134: in Internet worm defenses.
135: <p>
136:
1.224 miod 137: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
138: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
139: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
140: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
141: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
142: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
143: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
144: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
145: OpenBSD.
146: <p>
147:
148: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
149: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
150: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
151: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
152: <p>
153:
154: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
155: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
156: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
157: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
158: <p>
159:
1.219 jose 160: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
161: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
162: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 163: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 164: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
165: <p>
166:
1.218 jose 167: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
168: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
169: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 170: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 171: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
172: <p>
173:
1.214 henning 174: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
175: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 176: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 177: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
178: <p>
179:
1.213 jose 180: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
181: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 182: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 183: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 184: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
185: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
186: <p>
187:
1.211 jose 188: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
189: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 190: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 191: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
192: <p>
193:
194: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
195: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 196: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 197: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 198: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
199: <p>
200:
1.209 wvdputte 201: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
202: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 203: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 204: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
205: <p>
1.195 deraadt 206:
1.202 jason 207: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 208: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 209: Conference</a></strong>,
210: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 211: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
212: <ul>
1.216 jose 213: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 214: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 215: Angelos D. Keromytis,
216: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 217: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 218: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
219: </ul>
220: <p>
221:
1.201 deraadt 222: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 223: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 224: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
225: session.
226: <p>
227:
1.216 jose 228: <li><strong>
229: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
230: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 231: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
232: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
233: <p>
234:
1.216 jose 235: <li><strong>
236: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
237: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 238: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 239: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 240: <p>
241:
1.216 jose 242: <li><strong>
243: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
244: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 245: 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 246: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 247: <p>
248:
1.216 jose 249: <li><strong>
250: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
251: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 252: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
253: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 254: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
255: user groups.
256: <p>
257:
1.236 jose 258: <li><strong>
259: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 260: Group</a></strong>,
261: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 262: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
263: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
264: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
265: <p>
266:
1.216 jose 267: <li><strong>
268: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
269: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 270: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 271: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 272: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
273: <p>
274:
1.216 jose 275: <li><strong>
276: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
277: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 278: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
279: CD sets and Tshirts.
280: <p>
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1.185 miod 282:
1.161 millert 283: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 284:
285: <ul>
286: <li><strong>
287: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 288: Congress</a></strong>,
289: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 290: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
291: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 292: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
293: <p>
1.177 jason 294:
1.216 jose 295: <li><strong>
296: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
297: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 298: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 299: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 300: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
301: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 302: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 303: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
304: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 305: <p>
1.178 pb 306:
1.216 jose 307: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 308: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 309: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
310: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 311: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
312: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
313: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
314: <p>
315:
1.216 jose 316: <li><strong>
317: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
318: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 319: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
320: Niels Provos presented his
321: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
322: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 323: <p>
1.172 miod 324:
1.216 jose 325: <li><strong>
326: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
327: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 328: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
329: <p>
330:
1.216 jose 331: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 332: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 333: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
334: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 335: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
336: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 337: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 338: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 339: <p>
1.168 miod 340:
1.216 jose 341: <li><strong>
342: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
343: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 344: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 345: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
346: are available.
1.161 millert 347: <p>
348:
1.216 jose 349: <li><strong>
350: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
351: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 352: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
353: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
354: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
355: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
356: <p>
357:
1.216 jose 358: <li><strong>
359: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
360: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 361: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
362: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
363: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
364: <p>
1.236 jose 365: </ul>
1.164 millert 366:
1.152 jakob 367: <h3>2001</h3>
368:
1.236 jose 369: <ul>
1.216 jose 370: <li><strong>
371: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
372: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 373: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
374: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
375: <p>
376:
1.216 jose 377: <li><strong>
378: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
379: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 380: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
381: <p>
382:
1.158 deraadt 383: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 384: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 385: 2001</a></strong>,
386: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 387: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
388: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
389: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
390: <p>
391:
1.216 jose 392: <li><strong>
393: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
394: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 395: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
396: <p>
397:
1.201 deraadt 398: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 399: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 400: Jakob and Itojun were there.
401: <p>
1.158 deraadt 402:
1.150 wvdputte 403: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 404: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 405: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 406: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
407: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
408: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 409: <p>
1.137 aaron 410:
411: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 412: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 413: Conference</a></strong>,
414: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 415: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
416: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
417: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 421: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 422: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 423: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
424: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
425: <p>
426:
427: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 428: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 429: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
430: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 431: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
432: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
433: <p>
434:
435: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 436: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 437: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
438: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 439: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
440: <p>
441:
442: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 443: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 444: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 445: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 446: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
447: security community.
448: <p>
449:
450: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 451: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 452: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
453: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 454: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
455: <p>
456:
457: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 458: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 459: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 460: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 461: <p>
1.236 jose 462: </ul>
1.137 aaron 463:
1.132 louis 464: <h3>2000</h3>
465:
1.236 jose 466: <ul>
1.132 louis 467: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 468: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 469: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
470: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 471: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
472: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
473: <p>
474:
475: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 476: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 477: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 478: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
479: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
480: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
481: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 482: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 483: <p>
484:
485: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 486: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 487: 2000</a></strong>,
488: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 489: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 490: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 491: <p>
1.4 millert 492:
1.132 louis 493: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 494: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 495: Summit</a></strong>,
496: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 497: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 498: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
499: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
500:
501: <ul>
1.236 jose 502: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 503: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 504: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
505: </ul>
1.4 millert 506: <p>
1.132 louis 507:
1.7 deraadt 508: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 509: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 510: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 511: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
512: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 513: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 514: mind (drinks afterwards).
515: <p>
516:
1.216 jose 517: <li><strong>
518: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
519: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 520: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
521: questions.
1.32 deraadt 522: <p>
1.1 deraadt 523:
1.132 louis 524: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 525: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 526: Revolution</a></strong>,
527: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 528: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
529: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 530: <p>
531:
1.132 louis 532: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 533: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
534: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 535: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
536: <ul>
1.236 jose 537: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 538: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 539: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 540: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
541: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
542: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 543: <p>
1.132 louis 544:
1.10 provos 545: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 546: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 547: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 548: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 549: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
550: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
551: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
552: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
553: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
554: <br>
555: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
556: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
557: <p>
1.32 deraadt 558:
1.132 louis 559: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 560: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 561: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
562: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
563: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 564: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
565: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
566: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
567: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
568: and spoke about
569: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
570: Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
571: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 572: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 573: <p>
1.132 louis 574:
1.6 deraadt 575: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 576: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 577: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 578: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
579: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
580: <br>
581: Christian Weisgerber gave a
582: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
583: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 584: <p>
1.1 deraadt 585:
1.216 jose 586: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 587: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 588: Conference.</a></strong>,
589: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 590: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
591: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
592: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
593: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
594: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 595: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 596: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
597: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
598: <ul>
599:
600: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
601: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 602: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 603: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
604: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
605:
606: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
607: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 608: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 609: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
610: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 611:
1.132 louis 612: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
613: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 614: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 615: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 616: <p>
617:
1.132 louis 618: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 619: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 620: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
621: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 622: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
623: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
624: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 625: <p>
1.2 deraadt 626:
1.132 louis 627: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 628: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
629: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 630: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
631: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
632: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
633: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
634: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 635: <p>
1.11 jkatz 636:
1.17 deraadt 637: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 638: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
639: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 640: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
641: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
642: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
643: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
644: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 645: <p>
1.17 deraadt 646:
1.23 niklas 647: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 648: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
649: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 650: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
651: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
652: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 653: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 654: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
655: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
656: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 657: <p>
1.25 deraadt 658:
1.132 louis 659: <li><strong>
660: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 661: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
662: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 663: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 664: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
665: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
666: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 667: <p>
1.23 niklas 668:
1.31 deraadt 669: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 670: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 671: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
672: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 673: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 674: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
675: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
676: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
677: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 678: <p>
1.31 deraadt 679:
1.201 deraadt 680: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 681: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 682: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
683: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
684: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
685: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 686: <p>
1.236 jose 687: </ul>
1.33 niklas 688:
1.132 louis 689: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 690:
1.236 jose 691: <ul>
1.216 jose 692: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
693: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 694: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 695: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 696: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
697: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
698: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 699: <p>
700:
1.216 jose 701: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 702: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 703: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
704: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 705: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
706: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
707: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
708: There were many other OpenBSD
709: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
710: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
711:
712: <ul>
713: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 714: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 715: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 716: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
717: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 718: </ul>
719: <p>
720:
721: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 722: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 723: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 724: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
725: <p>
726:
727: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 728: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 729: Software '99</a></strong>,
730: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 731: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 732: <a
733: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 734: <p>
735:
736: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 737: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 738: 1999</a></strong>,
739: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 740: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
741: developers from the east coast attended as well.
742: <p>
743:
1.236 jose 744: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 745: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
746: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 747: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
748: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 749: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
750: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
751: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
752: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
753: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
754: conference in Stockholm.
755: <p>
756:
757: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 758: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 759: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 760: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
761: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
762: coordinated.
763: <p>
764:
765: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 766: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 767: Security</a></strong>,
768: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 769: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
770: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
771: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
772: significant security roles.
773: <p>
774:
775: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 776: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 777: meeting</a></strong>,
778: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 779: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
780: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
781: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 782: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 783: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
784: <p>
1.45 jason 785:
1.132 louis 786: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 787: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 788: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 789: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
790: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 791: <p>
1.132 louis 792:
1.236 jose 793: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
794: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 795: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
796: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 797: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 798: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 799: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
800: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 801: June.)
1.132 louis 802: <br>
1.46 deraadt 803: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 804: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
805:
1.46 deraadt 806: <ul>
1.236 jose 807: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 808: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 809: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 810: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 811: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
812: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 813: <br>
1.66 deraadt 814: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 815: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 816: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 817: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
818: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 819: <br>
1.66 deraadt 820: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 821: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 822: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
823: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 824: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
825: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 826: <br>
1.66 deraadt 827: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 828: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 829: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 830: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
831: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 832: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 833: <p>
1.46 deraadt 834:
1.51 deraadt 835: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 836: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 837: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 838: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
839: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
840: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
841: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
842: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 843: <p>
844:
1.53 jakob 845: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 846: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 847: meeting</a></strong>,
848: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 849: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
850: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 851: <p>
852:
1.132 louis 853: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 854: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 855: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
856: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 857: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
858: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
859: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
860: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 861: <p>
1.236 jose 862: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 863:
1.132 louis 864: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 865:
1.236 jose 866: <ul>
1.132 louis 867: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 868: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
869: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 870: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 871: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 872: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 873: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
874: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
875: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
876: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 877: <p>
878:
1.236 jose 879: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
880: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 881: Conference</a></strong>,
882: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 883: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
884: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
885: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
886: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
887: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
888: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
889: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
890: <br>
891: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
892: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
893: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 894: <p>
895:
1.73 deraadt 896: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 897: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 898: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 899: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 900: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 901: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 902: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 903: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 904: <p>
1.73 deraadt 905:
1.236 jose 906: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 907: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 908: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
909: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
910: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
911: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
912: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 913: <p>
1.73 deraadt 914:
1.80 deraadt 915: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 916: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
917: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 918: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 919: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 920: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 921: <p>
922:
1.93 louis 923: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 924: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 925: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 926: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 927: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
928: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 929: <p>
930:
1.216 jose 931: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 932: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
933: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 934: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 935: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
936: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 937: <p>
938:
1.236 jose 939: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
940: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 941: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 942: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
943: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
944: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
945: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
946: <br>
947: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 948: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 949: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
950: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 951: <p>
1.94 deraadt 952:
1.236 jose 953: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 954: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 955: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
956: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
957: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
958: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
959: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 960: <p>
961:
1.236 jose 962: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
963: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 964: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 965: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
966: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
967: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
968: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
969: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
970: <br>
971: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
972: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 973: <p>
974:
1.105 wvdputte 975: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 976: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 977: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 978: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
979: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
980: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 981: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 982: <br>
1.132 louis 983: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
984: <p>
1.236 jose 985: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 986:
1.132 louis 987: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 988:
1.236 jose 989: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 990: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 991: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 992: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 993: Niels held a
994: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 995: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
996: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 997: <p>
1.132 louis 998:
1.236 jose 999: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1000: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1001: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1002: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1003: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1004: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1005:
1.236 jose 1006: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1007: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1008: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1009: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1010: <br>
1011: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1012: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1013: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1014: <p>
1015:
1.125 deraadt 1016: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1017: <a
1018: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1019: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1020: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1021: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1022: </ul>
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