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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>,
1.244 mcbride 30: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1.239 jose 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>
1.245 ! canacar 37:
! 38: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
! 39: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival<a></strong>,
! 40: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
! 41: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir will talk about the OpenBSD Project.
! 42: The philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
! 43: security features will be introduced.
! 44: They will also talk about CARP, patents, recent Apache & XFree86
! 45: licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source projects.<br>
! 46: Organized by Turkish Linux Users' Association, the event is a
! 47: conventional open source conference with many additional
! 48: recreational activities.
! 49: <p>
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1.183 wvdputte 51:
1.152 jakob 52: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 67: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.240 espie 69: <h3>2004</h3>
70:
71: <ul>
1.242 henning 72: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
73: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
74: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 75: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
76: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
77: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
78: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
79: and systrace
80: (<a href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
81: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
82: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
83: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 84: <p>
85:
1.240 espie 86: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
87: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
88: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
89: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
90: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
91: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
92: <p>
93:
94: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
95: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
96: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
97: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
98: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
99: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
100: <p>
101: </ul>
102:
1.188 henning 103: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 104:
105: <ul>
1.232 jose 106: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
107: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
108: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
109: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
110: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 111: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
112: <a href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 113: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 114: <p>
1.232 jose 115:
1.228 jose 116: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 117: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 118: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
119: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 120: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
121: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 122: with OpenBSD PF.
123: <p>
124:
125: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
126: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
127: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
128: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
129: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 130: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
131: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
132: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
133: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
134: <a href="http://mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
135: slides in PDF format </a>
136: (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 137: <p>
138:
1.227 jose 139: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
140: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
141: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
142: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
143: <p>
144:
145: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
146: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
147: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 148: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 149: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 150: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
151: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 152: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 153: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 154: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 155: in Internet worm defenses.
156: <p>
157:
1.224 miod 158: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
159: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
160: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
161: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
162: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
163: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
164: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
165: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
166: OpenBSD.
167: <p>
168:
169: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
170: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
171: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
172: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
173: <p>
174:
175: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
176: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
177: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
178: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
179: <p>
180:
1.219 jose 181: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
182: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
183: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 184: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 185: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
186: <p>
187:
1.218 jose 188: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
189: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
190: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 191: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 192: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
193: <p>
194:
1.214 henning 195: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
196: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 197: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 198: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
199: <p>
200:
1.213 jose 201: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
202: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 203: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 204: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 205: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
206: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
207: <p>
208:
1.211 jose 209: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
210: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 211: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 212: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
213: <p>
214:
215: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
216: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 217: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 218: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 219: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
220: <p>
221:
1.209 wvdputte 222: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
223: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 224: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 225: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
226: <p>
1.195 deraadt 227:
1.202 jason 228: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 229: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 230: Conference</a></strong>,
231: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 232: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
233: <ul>
1.216 jose 234: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 235: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 236: Angelos D. Keromytis,
237: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 238: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 239: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
240: </ul>
241: <p>
242:
1.201 deraadt 243: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 244: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 245: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
246: session.
247: <p>
248:
1.216 jose 249: <li><strong>
250: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
251: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 252: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
253: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
254: <p>
255:
1.216 jose 256: <li><strong>
257: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
258: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 259: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 260: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 261: <p>
262:
1.216 jose 263: <li><strong>
264: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
265: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 266: 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 267: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 268: <p>
269:
1.216 jose 270: <li><strong>
271: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
272: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 273: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
274: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 275: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
276: user groups.
277: <p>
278:
1.236 jose 279: <li><strong>
280: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 281: Group</a></strong>,
282: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 283: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
284: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
285: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
286: <p>
287:
1.216 jose 288: <li><strong>
289: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
290: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 291: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 292: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 293: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
294: <p>
295:
1.216 jose 296: <li><strong>
297: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
298: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 299: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
300: CD sets and Tshirts.
301: <p>
1.236 jose 302: </ul>
1.185 miod 303:
1.161 millert 304: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 305:
306: <ul>
307: <li><strong>
308: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 309: Congress</a></strong>,
310: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 311: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
312: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 313: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
314: <p>
1.177 jason 315:
1.216 jose 316: <li><strong>
317: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
318: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 319: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 320: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 321: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
322: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 323: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 324: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
325: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 326: <p>
1.178 pb 327:
1.216 jose 328: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 329: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 330: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
331: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 332: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
333: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
334: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
335: <p>
336:
1.216 jose 337: <li><strong>
338: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
339: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 340: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
341: Niels Provos presented his
342: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
343: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 344: <p>
1.172 miod 345:
1.216 jose 346: <li><strong>
347: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
348: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 349: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
350: <p>
351:
1.216 jose 352: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 353: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 354: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
355: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 356: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
357: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 358: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 359: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 360: <p>
1.168 miod 361:
1.216 jose 362: <li><strong>
363: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
364: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 365: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 366: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
367: are available.
1.161 millert 368: <p>
369:
1.216 jose 370: <li><strong>
371: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
372: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 373: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
374: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
375: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
376: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
377: <p>
378:
1.216 jose 379: <li><strong>
380: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
381: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 382: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
383: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
384: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
385: <p>
1.236 jose 386: </ul>
1.164 millert 387:
1.152 jakob 388: <h3>2001</h3>
389:
1.236 jose 390: <ul>
1.216 jose 391: <li><strong>
392: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
393: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 394: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
395: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
396: <p>
397:
1.216 jose 398: <li><strong>
399: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
400: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 401: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
402: <p>
403:
1.158 deraadt 404: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 405: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 406: 2001</a></strong>,
407: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 408: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
409: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
410: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
411: <p>
412:
1.216 jose 413: <li><strong>
414: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
415: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 416: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
417: <p>
418:
1.201 deraadt 419: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 420: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 421: Jakob and Itojun were there.
422: <p>
1.158 deraadt 423:
1.150 wvdputte 424: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 425: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 426: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 427: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
428: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
429: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 430: <p>
1.137 aaron 431:
432: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 433: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 434: Conference</a></strong>,
435: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 436: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
437: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
438: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
439: <p>
440:
441: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 442: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 443: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 444: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
445: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
446: <p>
447:
448: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 449: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 450: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
451: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 452: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
453: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
454: <p>
455:
456: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 457: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 458: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
459: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 460: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
461: <p>
462:
463: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 464: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 465: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 466: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 467: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
468: security community.
469: <p>
470:
471: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 472: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 473: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
474: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 475: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
476: <p>
477:
478: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 479: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 480: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 481: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 482: <p>
1.236 jose 483: </ul>
1.137 aaron 484:
1.132 louis 485: <h3>2000</h3>
486:
1.236 jose 487: <ul>
1.132 louis 488: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 489: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 490: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
491: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 492: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
493: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
494: <p>
495:
496: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 497: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 498: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 499: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
500: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
501: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
502: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 503: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 504: <p>
505:
506: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 507: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 508: 2000</a></strong>,
509: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 510: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 511: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 512: <p>
1.4 millert 513:
1.132 louis 514: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 515: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 516: Summit</a></strong>,
517: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 518: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 519: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
520: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
521:
522: <ul>
1.236 jose 523: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 524: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 525: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
526: </ul>
1.4 millert 527: <p>
1.132 louis 528:
1.7 deraadt 529: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 530: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 531: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 532: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
533: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 534: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 535: mind (drinks afterwards).
536: <p>
537:
1.216 jose 538: <li><strong>
539: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
540: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 541: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
542: questions.
1.32 deraadt 543: <p>
1.1 deraadt 544:
1.132 louis 545: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 546: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 547: Revolution</a></strong>,
548: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 549: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
550: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 551: <p>
552:
1.132 louis 553: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 554: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
555: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 556: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
557: <ul>
1.236 jose 558: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 559: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 560: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 561: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
562: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
563: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 564: <p>
1.132 louis 565:
1.10 provos 566: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 567: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 568: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 569: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 570: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
571: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
572: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
573: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
574: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
575: <br>
576: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
577: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
578: <p>
1.32 deraadt 579:
1.132 louis 580: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 581: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 582: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
583: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
584: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 585: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
586: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
587: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
588: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
589: and spoke about
590: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 591: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 592: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 593: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 594: <p>
1.132 louis 595:
1.6 deraadt 596: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 597: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 598: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 599: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
600: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
601: <br>
602: Christian Weisgerber gave a
603: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
604: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 605: <p>
1.1 deraadt 606:
1.216 jose 607: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 608: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 609: Conference.</a></strong>,
610: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 611: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
612: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
613: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
614: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
615: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 616: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 617: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
618: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
619: <ul>
620:
621: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
622: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 623: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 624: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
625: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
626:
627: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
628: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 629: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 630: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
631: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 632:
1.132 louis 633: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
634: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 635: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 636: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 637: <p>
638:
1.132 louis 639: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 640: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 641: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
642: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 643: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
644: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
645: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 646: <p>
1.2 deraadt 647:
1.132 louis 648: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 649: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
650: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 651: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
652: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
653: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
654: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
655: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 656: <p>
1.11 jkatz 657:
1.17 deraadt 658: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 659: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
660: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 661: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
662: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
663: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
664: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
665: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 666: <p>
1.17 deraadt 667:
1.23 niklas 668: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 669: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
670: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 671: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
672: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
673: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 674: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 675: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
676: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
677: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 678: <p>
1.25 deraadt 679:
1.132 louis 680: <li><strong>
681: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 682: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
683: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 684: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 685: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
686: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
687: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 688: <p>
1.23 niklas 689:
1.31 deraadt 690: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 691: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 692: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
693: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 694: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 695: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
696: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
697: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
698: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 699: <p>
1.31 deraadt 700:
1.201 deraadt 701: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 702: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 703: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
704: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
705: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
706: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 707: <p>
1.236 jose 708: </ul>
1.33 niklas 709:
1.132 louis 710: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 711:
1.236 jose 712: <ul>
1.216 jose 713: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
714: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 715: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 716: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 717: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
718: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
719: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 720: <p>
721:
1.216 jose 722: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 723: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 724: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
725: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 726: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
727: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
728: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
729: There were many other OpenBSD
730: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
731: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
732:
733: <ul>
734: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 735: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 736: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 737: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
738: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 739: </ul>
740: <p>
741:
742: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 743: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 744: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 745: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
746: <p>
747:
748: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 749: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 750: Software '99</a></strong>,
751: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 752: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 753: <a
754: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 755: <p>
756:
757: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 758: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 759: 1999</a></strong>,
760: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 761: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
762: developers from the east coast attended as well.
763: <p>
764:
1.236 jose 765: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 766: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
767: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 768: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
769: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 770: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
771: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
772: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
773: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
774: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
775: conference in Stockholm.
776: <p>
777:
778: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 779: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 780: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 781: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
782: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
783: coordinated.
784: <p>
785:
786: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 787: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 788: Security</a></strong>,
789: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 790: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
791: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
792: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
793: significant security roles.
794: <p>
795:
796: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 797: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 798: meeting</a></strong>,
799: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 800: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
801: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
802: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 803: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 804: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
805: <p>
1.45 jason 806:
1.132 louis 807: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 808: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 809: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 810: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
811: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 812: <p>
1.132 louis 813:
1.236 jose 814: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
815: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 816: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
817: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 818: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 819: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 820: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
821: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 822: June.)
1.132 louis 823: <br>
1.46 deraadt 824: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 825: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
826:
1.46 deraadt 827: <ul>
1.236 jose 828: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 829: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 830: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 831: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 832: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
833: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 834: <br>
1.66 deraadt 835: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 836: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 837: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 838: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
839: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 840: <br>
1.66 deraadt 841: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 842: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 843: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
844: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 845: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
846: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 847: <br>
1.66 deraadt 848: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 849: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 850: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 851: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
852: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 853: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 854: <p>
1.46 deraadt 855:
1.51 deraadt 856: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 857: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 858: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 859: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
860: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
861: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
862: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
863: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 864: <p>
865:
1.53 jakob 866: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 867: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 868: meeting</a></strong>,
869: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 870: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
871: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 872: <p>
873:
1.132 louis 874: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 875: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 876: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
877: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 878: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
879: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
880: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
881: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 882: <p>
1.236 jose 883: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 884:
1.132 louis 885: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 886:
1.236 jose 887: <ul>
1.132 louis 888: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 889: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
890: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 891: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 892: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 893: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 894: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
895: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
896: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
897: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 898: <p>
899:
1.236 jose 900: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
901: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 902: Conference</a></strong>,
903: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 904: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
905: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
906: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
907: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
908: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
909: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
910: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
911: <br>
912: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
913: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
914: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 915: <p>
916:
1.73 deraadt 917: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 918: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 919: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 920: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 921: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 922: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 923: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 924: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 925: <p>
1.73 deraadt 926:
1.236 jose 927: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 928: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 929: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
930: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
931: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
932: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
933: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 934: <p>
1.73 deraadt 935:
1.80 deraadt 936: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 937: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
938: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 939: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 940: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 941: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 942: <p>
943:
1.93 louis 944: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 945: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 946: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 947: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 948: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
949: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 950: <p>
951:
1.216 jose 952: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 953: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
954: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 955: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 956: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
957: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 958: <p>
959:
1.236 jose 960: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
961: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 962: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 963: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
964: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
965: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
966: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
967: <br>
968: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 969: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 970: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
971: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 972: <p>
1.94 deraadt 973:
1.236 jose 974: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 975: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 976: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
977: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
978: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
979: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
980: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 981: <p>
982:
1.236 jose 983: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
984: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 985: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 986: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
987: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
988: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
989: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
990: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
991: <br>
992: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
993: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 994: <p>
995:
1.105 wvdputte 996: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 997: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 998: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 999: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1000: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1001: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1002: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1003: <br>
1.132 louis 1004: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1005: <p>
1.236 jose 1006: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1007:
1.132 louis 1008: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1009:
1.236 jose 1010: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1011: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1012: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1013: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1014: Niels held a
1015: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1016: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1017: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1018: <p>
1.132 louis 1019:
1.236 jose 1020: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1021: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1022: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1023: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1024: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1025: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1026:
1.236 jose 1027: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1028: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1029: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1030: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1031: <br>
1032: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1033: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1034: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1035: <p>
1036:
1.125 deraadt 1037: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1038: <a
1039: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1040: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1041: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1042: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1043: </ul>
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