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1.236 jose 15: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
16: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
17: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
18: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 19: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 21: <hr>
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23: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 24:
1.220 wvdputte 25: <h3>2004</h3>
1.236 jose 26:
27: <ul>
1.249 ! wvdputte 28: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
! 29: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>, 23-26th of June 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany<br>
! 30: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
! 31: <p>
! 32:
! 33: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
! 34: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>, 6-10 July 2004, Bordeaux, France<br>
! 35: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
! 36: <p>
! 37:
! 38: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
! 39: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SuCon 2004</a></strong>, 2-4 September 2004, Zurich, Switserland<br>
! 40: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
! 41: <p>
! 42:
! 43: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
! 44: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
! 45: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
! 46: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
! 47: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
! 48: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
! 49: event."
! 50: <br>
! 51: Although this is a Linux developers' conference, we will be able to run a
! 52: regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
! 53: Because there is quite a user community in the Erlangen-Nuremberg area,
! 54: cheap or low-budget accomodations for developers and OpenBSD staff should be
! 55: possible to organize.
! 56: <br>
! 57: If you want to help us working at the booth in Erlangen, please contact
! 58: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a>.
! 59: <p>
! 60:
! 61: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
! 62: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>, 26-28 October 2004, Frankfurt, Germany<br>
! 63: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
! 64: <p>
! 65:
! 66: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
! 67: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>, 29-31 October 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany</br>
! 68: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
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1.152 jakob 85: <h2>Past events:</h2>
86:
1.240 espie 87: <h3>2004</h3>
88:
89: <ul>
1.248 deraadt 90:
91: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
92: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
93: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
94:
95: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
96: about newer features in pf, focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP
97: and pfsync. Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
98: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
99: <p>
100:
1.247 canacar 101: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
102: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
103: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
104: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
105: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
106: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
107: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
108: projects were discussed.<br>
109: You can view the
110: <a href="http://www.mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
111: slides in PDF format</a> the
112: <a href="http://www.mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
113: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
114: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
115: <p>
116:
1.242 henning 117: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
118: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
119: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 120: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
121: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
122: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
123: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
124: and systrace
125: (<a href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
126: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
127: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
128: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 129: <p>
130:
1.240 espie 131: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
132: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
133: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
134: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
135: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
136: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
137: <p>
138:
139: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
140: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
141: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
142: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
143: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
144: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
145: <p>
146: </ul>
147:
1.188 henning 148: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 149:
150: <ul>
1.232 jose 151: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
152: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
153: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
154: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
155: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 156: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
157: <a href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 158: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 159: <p>
1.232 jose 160:
1.228 jose 161: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 162: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 163: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
164: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 165: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
166: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 167: with OpenBSD PF.
168: <p>
169:
170: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
171: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
172: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
173: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
174: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 175: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
176: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
177: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
178: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
179: <a href="http://mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
180: slides in PDF format </a>
181: (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 182: <p>
183:
1.227 jose 184: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
185: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
186: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
187: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
188: <p>
189:
190: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
191: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
192: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 193: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 194: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 195: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
196: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 197: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 198: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 199: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 200: in Internet worm defenses.
201: <p>
202:
1.224 miod 203: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
204: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
205: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
206: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
207: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
208: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
209: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
210: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
211: OpenBSD.
212: <p>
213:
214: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
215: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
216: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
217: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
218: <p>
219:
220: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
221: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
222: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
223: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
224: <p>
225:
1.219 jose 226: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
227: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
228: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 229: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 230: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
231: <p>
232:
1.218 jose 233: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
234: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
235: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 236: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 237: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
238: <p>
239:
1.214 henning 240: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
241: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 242: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 243: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
244: <p>
245:
1.213 jose 246: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
247: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 248: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 249: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 250: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
251: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
252: <p>
253:
1.211 jose 254: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
255: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 256: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 257: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
258: <p>
259:
260: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
261: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 262: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 263: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 264: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
265: <p>
266:
1.209 wvdputte 267: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
268: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 269: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 270: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
271: <p>
1.195 deraadt 272:
1.202 jason 273: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 274: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 275: Conference</a></strong>,
276: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 277: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
278: <ul>
1.216 jose 279: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 280: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 281: Angelos D. Keromytis,
282: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 283: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 284: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
285: </ul>
286: <p>
287:
1.201 deraadt 288: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 289: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 290: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
291: session.
292: <p>
293:
1.216 jose 294: <li><strong>
295: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
296: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 297: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
298: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
299: <p>
300:
1.216 jose 301: <li><strong>
302: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
303: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 304: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 305: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 306: <p>
307:
1.216 jose 308: <li><strong>
309: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
310: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 311: 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 312: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 313: <p>
314:
1.216 jose 315: <li><strong>
316: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
317: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 318: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
319: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 320: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
321: user groups.
322: <p>
323:
1.236 jose 324: <li><strong>
325: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 326: Group</a></strong>,
327: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 328: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
329: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
330: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
331: <p>
332:
1.216 jose 333: <li><strong>
334: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
335: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 336: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 337: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 338: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
339: <p>
340:
1.216 jose 341: <li><strong>
342: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
343: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 344: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
345: CD sets and Tshirts.
346: <p>
1.236 jose 347: </ul>
1.185 miod 348:
1.161 millert 349: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 350:
351: <ul>
352: <li><strong>
353: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 354: Congress</a></strong>,
355: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 356: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
357: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 358: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
359: <p>
1.177 jason 360:
1.216 jose 361: <li><strong>
362: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
363: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 364: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 365: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 366: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
367: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 368: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 369: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
370: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 371: <p>
1.178 pb 372:
1.216 jose 373: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 374: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 375: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
376: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 377: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
378: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
379: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
380: <p>
381:
1.216 jose 382: <li><strong>
383: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
384: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 385: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
386: Niels Provos presented his
387: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
388: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 389: <p>
1.172 miod 390:
1.216 jose 391: <li><strong>
392: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
393: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 394: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
395: <p>
396:
1.216 jose 397: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 398: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 399: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
400: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 401: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
402: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 403: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 404: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 405: <p>
1.168 miod 406:
1.216 jose 407: <li><strong>
408: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
409: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 410: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 411: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
412: are available.
1.161 millert 413: <p>
414:
1.216 jose 415: <li><strong>
416: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
417: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 418: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
419: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
420: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
421: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
422: <p>
423:
1.216 jose 424: <li><strong>
425: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
426: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 427: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
428: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
429: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
430: <p>
1.236 jose 431: </ul>
1.164 millert 432:
1.152 jakob 433: <h3>2001</h3>
434:
1.236 jose 435: <ul>
1.216 jose 436: <li><strong>
437: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
438: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 439: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
440: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
441: <p>
442:
1.216 jose 443: <li><strong>
444: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
445: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 446: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
447: <p>
448:
1.158 deraadt 449: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 450: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 451: 2001</a></strong>,
452: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 453: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
454: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
455: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
456: <p>
457:
1.216 jose 458: <li><strong>
459: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
460: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 461: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
462: <p>
463:
1.201 deraadt 464: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 465: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 466: Jakob and Itojun were there.
467: <p>
1.158 deraadt 468:
1.150 wvdputte 469: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 470: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 471: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 472: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
473: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
474: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 475: <p>
1.137 aaron 476:
477: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 478: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 479: Conference</a></strong>,
480: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 481: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
482: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
483: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
484: <p>
485:
486: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 487: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 488: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 489: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
490: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
491: <p>
492:
493: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 494: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 495: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
496: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 497: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
498: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
499: <p>
500:
501: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 502: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 503: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
504: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 505: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
506: <p>
507:
508: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 509: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 510: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 511: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 512: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
513: security community.
514: <p>
515:
516: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 517: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 518: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
519: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 520: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
521: <p>
522:
523: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 524: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 525: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 526: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 527: <p>
1.236 jose 528: </ul>
1.137 aaron 529:
1.132 louis 530: <h3>2000</h3>
531:
1.236 jose 532: <ul>
1.132 louis 533: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 534: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 535: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
536: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 537: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
538: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
539: <p>
540:
541: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 542: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 543: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 544: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
545: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
546: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
547: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 548: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 549: <p>
550:
551: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 552: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 553: 2000</a></strong>,
554: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 555: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 556: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 557: <p>
1.4 millert 558:
1.132 louis 559: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 560: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 561: Summit</a></strong>,
562: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 563: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 564: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
565: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
566:
567: <ul>
1.236 jose 568: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 569: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 570: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
571: </ul>
1.4 millert 572: <p>
1.132 louis 573:
1.7 deraadt 574: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 575: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 576: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 577: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
578: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 579: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 580: mind (drinks afterwards).
581: <p>
582:
1.216 jose 583: <li><strong>
584: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
585: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 586: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
587: questions.
1.32 deraadt 588: <p>
1.1 deraadt 589:
1.132 louis 590: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 591: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 592: Revolution</a></strong>,
593: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 594: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
595: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 596: <p>
597:
1.132 louis 598: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 599: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
600: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 601: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
602: <ul>
1.236 jose 603: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 604: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 605: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 606: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
607: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
608: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 609: <p>
1.132 louis 610:
1.10 provos 611: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 612: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 613: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 614: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 615: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
616: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
617: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
618: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
619: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
620: <br>
621: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
622: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
623: <p>
1.32 deraadt 624:
1.132 louis 625: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 626: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 627: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
628: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
629: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 630: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
631: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
632: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
633: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
634: and spoke about
635: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 636: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 637: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 638: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 639: <p>
1.132 louis 640:
1.6 deraadt 641: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 642: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 643: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 644: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
645: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
646: <br>
647: Christian Weisgerber gave a
648: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
649: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 650: <p>
1.1 deraadt 651:
1.216 jose 652: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 653: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 654: Conference.</a></strong>,
655: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 656: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
657: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
658: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
659: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
660: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 661: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 662: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
663: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
664: <ul>
665:
666: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
667: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 668: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 669: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
670: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
671:
672: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
673: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 674: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 675: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
676: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 677:
1.132 louis 678: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
679: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 680: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 681: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 682: <p>
683:
1.132 louis 684: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 685: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 686: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
687: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 688: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
689: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
690: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 691: <p>
1.2 deraadt 692:
1.132 louis 693: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 694: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
695: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 696: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
697: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
698: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
699: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
700: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 701: <p>
1.11 jkatz 702:
1.17 deraadt 703: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 704: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
705: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 706: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
707: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
708: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
709: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
710: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 711: <p>
1.17 deraadt 712:
1.23 niklas 713: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 714: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
715: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 716: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
717: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
718: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 719: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 720: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
721: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
722: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 723: <p>
1.25 deraadt 724:
1.132 louis 725: <li><strong>
726: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 727: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
728: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 729: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 730: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
731: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
732: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 733: <p>
1.23 niklas 734:
1.31 deraadt 735: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 736: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 737: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
738: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 739: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 740: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
741: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
742: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
743: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 744: <p>
1.31 deraadt 745:
1.201 deraadt 746: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 747: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 748: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
749: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
750: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
751: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 752: <p>
1.236 jose 753: </ul>
1.33 niklas 754:
1.132 louis 755: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 756:
1.236 jose 757: <ul>
1.216 jose 758: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
759: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 760: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 761: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 762: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
763: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
764: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 765: <p>
766:
1.216 jose 767: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 768: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 769: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
770: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 771: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
772: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
773: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
774: There were many other OpenBSD
775: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
776: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
777:
778: <ul>
779: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 780: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 781: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 782: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
783: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 784: </ul>
785: <p>
786:
787: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 788: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 789: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 790: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
791: <p>
792:
793: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 794: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 795: Software '99</a></strong>,
796: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 797: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 798: <a
799: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 800: <p>
801:
802: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 803: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 804: 1999</a></strong>,
805: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 806: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
807: developers from the east coast attended as well.
808: <p>
809:
1.236 jose 810: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 811: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
812: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 813: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
814: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 815: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
816: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
817: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
818: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
819: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
820: conference in Stockholm.
821: <p>
822:
823: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 824: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 825: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 826: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
827: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
828: coordinated.
829: <p>
830:
831: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 832: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 833: Security</a></strong>,
834: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 835: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
836: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
837: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
838: significant security roles.
839: <p>
840:
841: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 842: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 843: meeting</a></strong>,
844: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 845: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
846: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
847: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 848: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 849: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
850: <p>
1.45 jason 851:
1.132 louis 852: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 853: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 854: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 855: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
856: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 857: <p>
1.132 louis 858:
1.236 jose 859: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
860: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 861: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
862: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 863: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 864: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 865: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
866: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 867: June.)
1.132 louis 868: <br>
1.46 deraadt 869: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 870: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
871:
1.46 deraadt 872: <ul>
1.236 jose 873: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 874: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 875: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 876: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 877: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
878: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 879: <br>
1.66 deraadt 880: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 881: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 882: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 883: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
884: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 885: <br>
1.66 deraadt 886: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 887: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 888: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
889: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 890: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
891: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 892: <br>
1.66 deraadt 893: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 894: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 895: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 896: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
897: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 898: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 899: <p>
1.46 deraadt 900:
1.51 deraadt 901: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 902: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 903: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 904: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
905: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
906: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
907: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
908: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 909: <p>
910:
1.53 jakob 911: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 912: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 913: meeting</a></strong>,
914: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 915: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
916: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 917: <p>
918:
1.132 louis 919: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 920: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 921: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
922: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 923: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
924: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
925: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
926: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 927: <p>
1.236 jose 928: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 929:
1.132 louis 930: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 931:
1.236 jose 932: <ul>
1.132 louis 933: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 934: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
935: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 936: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 937: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 938: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 939: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
940: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
941: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
942: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 943: <p>
944:
1.236 jose 945: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
946: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 947: Conference</a></strong>,
948: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 949: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
950: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
951: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
952: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
953: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
954: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
955: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
956: <br>
957: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
958: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
959: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 960: <p>
961:
1.73 deraadt 962: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 963: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 964: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 965: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 966: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 967: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 968: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 969: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 970: <p>
1.73 deraadt 971:
1.236 jose 972: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 973: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 974: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
975: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
976: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
977: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
978: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 979: <p>
1.73 deraadt 980:
1.80 deraadt 981: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 982: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
983: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 984: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 985: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 986: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 987: <p>
988:
1.93 louis 989: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 990: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 991: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 992: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 993: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
994: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 995: <p>
996:
1.216 jose 997: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 998: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
999: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1000: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1001: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1002: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1003: <p>
1004:
1.236 jose 1005: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1006: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1007: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1008: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1009: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1010: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1011: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1012: <br>
1013: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1014: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1015: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1016: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1017: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1018:
1.236 jose 1019: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1020: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1021: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1022: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1023: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1024: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1025: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1026: <p>
1027:
1.236 jose 1028: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1029: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1030: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1031: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1032: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1033: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1034: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1035: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1036: <br>
1037: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1038: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1039: <p>
1040:
1.105 wvdputte 1041: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1042: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1043: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1044: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1045: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1046: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1047: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1048: <br>
1.132 louis 1049: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1050: <p>
1.236 jose 1051: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1052:
1.132 louis 1053: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1054:
1.236 jose 1055: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1056: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1057: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1058: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1059: Niels held a
1060: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1061: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1062: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1063: <p>
1.132 louis 1064:
1.236 jose 1065: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1066: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1067: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1068: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1069: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1070: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1071:
1.236 jose 1072: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1073: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1074: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1075: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1076: <br>
1077: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1078: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1079: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1080: <p>
1081:
1.125 deraadt 1082: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1083: <a
1084: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1085: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1086: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1087: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1088: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1089:
1.1 deraadt 1090:
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1.236 jose 1092: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt="OpenBSD"></a>
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