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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.
1.8 deraadt 20:
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>
1.239 jose 28: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
29: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
30: May 13 - 15, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
31: BSDCan is a developers conference with a strong focus on emerging
32: technologies, research projects, and works in progress. It also
33: features userland infrastructure projects and invites contribution
34: from both free software developers and those from commercial vendors.
35: BSDCan will be held at the University of Ottawa.
36: <p>
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1.183 wvdputte 38:
1.152 jakob 39: <hr>
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46: Tagline formatting:
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48: <a href=LINK>EVENT NAME</a></strong>,
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1.152 jakob 54: <h2>Past events:</h2>
55:
1.240 espie 56: <h3>2004</h3>
57:
58: <ul>
1.242 ! henning 59: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
! 60: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
! 61: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
! 62: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present.
! 63: Talks were given by Henning
! 64: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>)
! 65: and Alexander von Gernler.
! 66: <p>
! 67:
1.240 espie 68: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
69: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
70: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
71: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
72: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
73: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
74: <p>
75:
76: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
77: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
78: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
79: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
80: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
81: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
82: <p>
83: </ul>
84:
1.188 henning 85: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 86:
87: <ul>
1.232 jose 88: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
89: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
90: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
91: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
92: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 93: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
94: <a href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 95: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 96: <p>
1.232 jose 97:
1.228 jose 98: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 99: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 100: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
101: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 102: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
103: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 104: with OpenBSD PF.
105: <p>
106:
107: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
108: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
109: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
110: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
111: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 112: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
113: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
114: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
115: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
116: <a href="http://mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
117: slides in PDF format </a>
118: (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 119: <p>
120:
1.227 jose 121: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
122: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
123: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
124: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
125: <p>
126:
127: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
128: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
129: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 130: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 131: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 132: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
133: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 134: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 135: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 136: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 137: in Internet worm defenses.
138: <p>
139:
1.224 miod 140: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
141: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
142: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
143: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
144: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
145: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
146: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
147: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
148: OpenBSD.
149: <p>
150:
151: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
152: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
153: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
154: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
155: <p>
156:
157: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
158: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
159: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
160: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
161: <p>
162:
1.219 jose 163: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
164: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
165: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 166: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 167: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
168: <p>
169:
1.218 jose 170: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
171: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
172: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 173: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 174: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
175: <p>
176:
1.214 henning 177: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
178: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 179: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 180: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
181: <p>
182:
1.213 jose 183: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
184: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 185: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 186: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 187: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
188: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
189: <p>
190:
1.211 jose 191: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
192: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 193: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 194: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
195: <p>
196:
197: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
198: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 199: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 200: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 201: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
202: <p>
203:
1.209 wvdputte 204: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
205: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 206: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 207: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
208: <p>
1.195 deraadt 209:
1.202 jason 210: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 211: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 212: Conference</a></strong>,
213: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 214: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
215: <ul>
1.216 jose 216: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 217: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 218: Angelos D. Keromytis,
219: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 220: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 221: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
222: </ul>
223: <p>
224:
1.201 deraadt 225: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 226: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 227: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
228: session.
229: <p>
230:
1.216 jose 231: <li><strong>
232: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
233: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 234: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
235: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
236: <p>
237:
1.216 jose 238: <li><strong>
239: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
240: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 241: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 242: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 243: <p>
244:
1.216 jose 245: <li><strong>
246: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
247: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 248: 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 249: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 250: <p>
251:
1.216 jose 252: <li><strong>
253: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
254: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 255: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
256: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 257: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
258: user groups.
259: <p>
260:
1.236 jose 261: <li><strong>
262: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 263: Group</a></strong>,
264: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 265: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
266: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
267: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
268: <p>
269:
1.216 jose 270: <li><strong>
271: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
272: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 273: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 274: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 275: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
276: <p>
277:
1.216 jose 278: <li><strong>
279: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
280: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 281: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
282: CD sets and Tshirts.
283: <p>
1.236 jose 284: </ul>
1.185 miod 285:
1.161 millert 286: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 287:
288: <ul>
289: <li><strong>
290: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 291: Congress</a></strong>,
292: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 293: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
294: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 295: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
296: <p>
1.177 jason 297:
1.216 jose 298: <li><strong>
299: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
300: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 301: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 302: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 303: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
304: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 305: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 306: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
307: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 308: <p>
1.178 pb 309:
1.216 jose 310: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 311: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 312: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
313: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 314: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
315: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
316: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
317: <p>
318:
1.216 jose 319: <li><strong>
320: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
321: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 322: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
323: Niels Provos presented his
324: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
325: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 326: <p>
1.172 miod 327:
1.216 jose 328: <li><strong>
329: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
330: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 331: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
332: <p>
333:
1.216 jose 334: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 335: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 336: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
337: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 338: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
339: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 340: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 341: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 342: <p>
1.168 miod 343:
1.216 jose 344: <li><strong>
345: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
346: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 347: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 348: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
349: are available.
1.161 millert 350: <p>
351:
1.216 jose 352: <li><strong>
353: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
354: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 355: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
356: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
357: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
358: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
359: <p>
360:
1.216 jose 361: <li><strong>
362: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
363: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 364: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
365: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
366: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
367: <p>
1.236 jose 368: </ul>
1.164 millert 369:
1.152 jakob 370: <h3>2001</h3>
371:
1.236 jose 372: <ul>
1.216 jose 373: <li><strong>
374: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
375: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 376: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
377: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
378: <p>
379:
1.216 jose 380: <li><strong>
381: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
382: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 383: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
384: <p>
385:
1.158 deraadt 386: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 387: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 388: 2001</a></strong>,
389: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 390: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
391: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
392: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
393: <p>
394:
1.216 jose 395: <li><strong>
396: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
397: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 398: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
399: <p>
400:
1.201 deraadt 401: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 402: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 403: Jakob and Itojun were there.
404: <p>
1.158 deraadt 405:
1.150 wvdputte 406: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 407: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 408: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 409: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
410: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
411: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 412: <p>
1.137 aaron 413:
414: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 415: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 416: Conference</a></strong>,
417: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 418: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
419: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
420: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
421: <p>
422:
423: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 424: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 425: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 426: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
427: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
428: <p>
429:
430: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 431: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 432: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
433: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 434: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
435: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
436: <p>
437:
438: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 439: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 440: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
441: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 442: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
443: <p>
444:
445: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 446: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 447: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 448: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 449: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
450: security community.
451: <p>
452:
453: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 454: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 455: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
456: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 457: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
458: <p>
459:
460: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 461: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 462: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 463: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 464: <p>
1.236 jose 465: </ul>
1.137 aaron 466:
1.132 louis 467: <h3>2000</h3>
468:
1.236 jose 469: <ul>
1.132 louis 470: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 471: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 472: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
473: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 474: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
475: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
476: <p>
477:
478: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 479: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 480: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 481: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
482: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
483: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
484: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 485: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 486: <p>
487:
488: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 489: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 490: 2000</a></strong>,
491: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 492: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 493: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 494: <p>
1.4 millert 495:
1.132 louis 496: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 497: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 498: Summit</a></strong>,
499: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 500: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 501: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
502: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
503:
504: <ul>
1.236 jose 505: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 506: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 507: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
508: </ul>
1.4 millert 509: <p>
1.132 louis 510:
1.7 deraadt 511: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 512: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 513: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 514: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
515: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 516: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 517: mind (drinks afterwards).
518: <p>
519:
1.216 jose 520: <li><strong>
521: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
522: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 523: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
524: questions.
1.32 deraadt 525: <p>
1.1 deraadt 526:
1.132 louis 527: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 528: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 529: Revolution</a></strong>,
530: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 531: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
532: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 533: <p>
534:
1.132 louis 535: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 536: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
537: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 538: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
539: <ul>
1.236 jose 540: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 541: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 542: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 543: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
544: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
545: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 546: <p>
1.132 louis 547:
1.10 provos 548: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 549: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 550: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 551: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 552: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
553: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
554: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
555: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
556: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
557: <br>
558: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
559: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
560: <p>
1.32 deraadt 561:
1.132 louis 562: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 563: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 564: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
565: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
566: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 567: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
568: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
569: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
570: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
571: and spoke about
572: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 573: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 574: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 575: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 576: <p>
1.132 louis 577:
1.6 deraadt 578: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 579: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 580: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 581: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
582: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
583: <br>
584: Christian Weisgerber gave a
585: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
586: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 587: <p>
1.1 deraadt 588:
1.216 jose 589: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 590: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 591: Conference.</a></strong>,
592: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 593: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
594: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
595: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
596: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
597: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 598: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 599: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
600: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
601: <ul>
602:
603: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
604: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 605: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 606: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
607: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
608:
609: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
610: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 611: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 612: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
613: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 614:
1.132 louis 615: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
616: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 617: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 618: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 619: <p>
620:
1.132 louis 621: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 622: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 623: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
624: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 625: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
626: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
627: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 628: <p>
1.2 deraadt 629:
1.132 louis 630: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 631: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
632: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 633: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
634: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
635: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
636: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
637: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 638: <p>
1.11 jkatz 639:
1.17 deraadt 640: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 641: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
642: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 643: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
644: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
645: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
646: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
647: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 648: <p>
1.17 deraadt 649:
1.23 niklas 650: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 651: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
652: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 653: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
654: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
655: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 656: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 657: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
658: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
659: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 660: <p>
1.25 deraadt 661:
1.132 louis 662: <li><strong>
663: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 664: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
665: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 666: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 667: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
668: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
669: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 670: <p>
1.23 niklas 671:
1.31 deraadt 672: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 673: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 674: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
675: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 676: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 677: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
678: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
679: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
680: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 681: <p>
1.31 deraadt 682:
1.201 deraadt 683: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 684: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 685: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
686: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
687: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
688: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 689: <p>
1.236 jose 690: </ul>
1.33 niklas 691:
1.132 louis 692: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 693:
1.236 jose 694: <ul>
1.216 jose 695: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
696: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 697: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 698: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 699: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
700: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
701: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 702: <p>
703:
1.216 jose 704: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 705: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 706: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
707: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 708: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
709: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
710: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
711: There were many other OpenBSD
712: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
713: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
714:
715: <ul>
716: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 717: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 718: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 719: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
720: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 721: </ul>
722: <p>
723:
724: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 725: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 726: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 727: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
728: <p>
729:
730: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 731: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 732: Software '99</a></strong>,
733: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 734: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 735: <a
736: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 737: <p>
738:
739: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 740: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 741: 1999</a></strong>,
742: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 743: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
744: developers from the east coast attended as well.
745: <p>
746:
1.236 jose 747: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 748: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
749: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 750: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
751: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 752: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
753: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
754: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
755: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
756: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
757: conference in Stockholm.
758: <p>
759:
760: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 761: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 762: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 763: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
764: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
765: coordinated.
766: <p>
767:
768: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 769: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 770: Security</a></strong>,
771: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 772: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
773: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
774: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
775: significant security roles.
776: <p>
777:
778: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 779: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 780: meeting</a></strong>,
781: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 782: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
783: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
784: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 785: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 786: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
787: <p>
1.45 jason 788:
1.132 louis 789: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 790: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 791: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 792: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
793: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 794: <p>
1.132 louis 795:
1.236 jose 796: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
797: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 798: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
799: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 800: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 801: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 802: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
803: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 804: June.)
1.132 louis 805: <br>
1.46 deraadt 806: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 807: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
808:
1.46 deraadt 809: <ul>
1.236 jose 810: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 811: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 812: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 813: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 814: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
815: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 816: <br>
1.66 deraadt 817: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 818: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 819: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 820: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
821: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 822: <br>
1.66 deraadt 823: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 824: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 825: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
826: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 827: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
828: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 829: <br>
1.66 deraadt 830: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 831: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 832: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 833: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
834: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 835: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 836: <p>
1.46 deraadt 837:
1.51 deraadt 838: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 839: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 840: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 841: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
842: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
843: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
844: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
845: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 846: <p>
847:
1.53 jakob 848: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 849: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 850: meeting</a></strong>,
851: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 852: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
853: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 854: <p>
855:
1.132 louis 856: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 857: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 858: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
859: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 860: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
861: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
862: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
863: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 864: <p>
1.236 jose 865: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 866:
1.132 louis 867: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 868:
1.236 jose 869: <ul>
1.132 louis 870: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 871: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
872: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 873: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 874: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 875: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 876: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
877: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
878: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
879: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 880: <p>
881:
1.236 jose 882: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
883: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 884: Conference</a></strong>,
885: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 886: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
887: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
888: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
889: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
890: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
891: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
892: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
893: <br>
894: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
895: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
896: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 897: <p>
898:
1.73 deraadt 899: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 900: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 901: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 902: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 903: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 904: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 905: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 906: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 907: <p>
1.73 deraadt 908:
1.236 jose 909: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 910: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 911: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
912: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
913: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
914: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
915: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 916: <p>
1.73 deraadt 917:
1.80 deraadt 918: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 919: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
920: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 921: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 922: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 923: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 924: <p>
925:
1.93 louis 926: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 927: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 928: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 929: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 930: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
931: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 932: <p>
933:
1.216 jose 934: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 935: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
936: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 937: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 938: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
939: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 940: <p>
941:
1.236 jose 942: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
943: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 944: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 945: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
946: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
947: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
948: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
949: <br>
950: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 951: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 952: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
953: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 954: <p>
1.94 deraadt 955:
1.236 jose 956: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 957: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 958: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
959: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
960: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
961: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
962: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 963: <p>
964:
1.236 jose 965: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
966: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 967: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 968: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
969: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
970: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
971: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
972: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
973: <br>
974: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
975: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 976: <p>
977:
1.105 wvdputte 978: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 979: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 980: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 981: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
982: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
983: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 984: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 985: <br>
1.132 louis 986: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
987: <p>
1.236 jose 988: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 989:
1.132 louis 990: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 991:
1.236 jose 992: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 993: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 994: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 995: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 996: Niels held a
997: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 998: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
999: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1000: <p>
1.132 louis 1001:
1.236 jose 1002: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1003: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1004: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1005: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1006: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1007: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1008:
1.236 jose 1009: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1010: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1011: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1012: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1013: <br>
1014: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1015: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1016: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1017: <p>
1018:
1.125 deraadt 1019: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1020: <a
1021: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1022: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1023: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1024: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1025: </ul>
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