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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>
1.250 ! saad 29: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
! 30: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
! 31: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact
! 32: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.249 wvdputte 33: <p>
34:
35: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1.250 ! saad 36: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
! 37: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
! 38: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact
! 39: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.249 wvdputte 40:
41: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1.250 ! saad 42: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SuCon 2004</a></strong>,
! 43: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
! 44: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact
! 45: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.249 wvdputte 46:
47: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
48: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
49: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
50: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
51: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
52: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
53: event."
54: <br>
55: Although this is a Linux developers' conference, we will be able to run a
56: regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
57: Because there is quite a user community in the Erlangen-Nuremberg area,
58: cheap or low-budget accomodations for developers and OpenBSD staff should be
59: possible to organize.
60: <br>
61: If you want to help us working at the booth in Erlangen, please contact
62: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a>.
63: <p>
64:
65: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1.250 ! saad 66: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
! 67: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
! 68: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact
! 69: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.249 wvdputte 70: <p>
71:
72: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1.250 ! saad 73: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
! 74: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
! 75: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact
! 76: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
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1.152 jakob 93: <h2>Past events:</h2>
94:
1.240 espie 95: <h3>2004</h3>
96:
97: <ul>
1.248 deraadt 98:
99: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
100: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
101: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
102:
103: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
104: about newer features in pf, focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP
105: and pfsync. Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
106: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
107: <p>
108:
1.247 canacar 109: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
110: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
111: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
112: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
113: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
114: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
115: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
116: projects were discussed.<br>
117: You can view the
118: <a href="http://www.mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
119: slides in PDF format</a> the
120: <a href="http://www.mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
121: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
122: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
123: <p>
124:
1.242 henning 125: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
126: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
127: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 128: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
129: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
130: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
131: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
132: and systrace
133: (<a href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
134: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
135: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
136: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 137: <p>
138:
1.240 espie 139: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
140: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
141: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
142: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
143: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
144: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
145: <p>
146:
147: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
148: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
149: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
150: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
151: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
152: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
153: <p>
154: </ul>
155:
1.188 henning 156: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 157:
158: <ul>
1.232 jose 159: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
160: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
161: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
162: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
163: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 164: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
165: <a href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 166: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 167: <p>
1.232 jose 168:
1.228 jose 169: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 170: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 171: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
172: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 173: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
174: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 175: with OpenBSD PF.
176: <p>
177:
178: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
179: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
180: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
181: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
182: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 183: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
184: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
185: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
186: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
187: <a href="http://mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
188: slides in PDF format </a>
189: (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 190: <p>
191:
1.227 jose 192: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
193: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
194: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
195: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
196: <p>
197:
198: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
199: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
200: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 201: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 202: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 203: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
204: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 205: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 206: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 207: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 208: in Internet worm defenses.
209: <p>
210:
1.224 miod 211: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
212: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
213: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
214: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
215: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
216: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
217: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
218: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
219: OpenBSD.
220: <p>
221:
222: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
223: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
224: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
225: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
226: <p>
227:
228: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
229: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
230: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
231: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
232: <p>
233:
1.219 jose 234: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
235: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
236: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 237: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 238: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
239: <p>
240:
1.218 jose 241: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
242: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
243: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 244: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 245: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
246: <p>
247:
1.214 henning 248: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
249: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 250: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 251: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
252: <p>
253:
1.213 jose 254: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
255: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 256: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 257: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 258: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
259: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
260: <p>
261:
1.211 jose 262: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
263: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 264: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 265: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
266: <p>
267:
268: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
269: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 270: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 271: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 272: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
273: <p>
274:
1.209 wvdputte 275: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
276: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 277: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 278: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
279: <p>
1.195 deraadt 280:
1.202 jason 281: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 282: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 283: Conference</a></strong>,
284: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 285: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
286: <ul>
1.216 jose 287: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 288: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 289: Angelos D. Keromytis,
290: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 291: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 292: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
293: </ul>
294: <p>
295:
1.201 deraadt 296: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 297: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 298: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
299: session.
300: <p>
301:
1.216 jose 302: <li><strong>
303: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
304: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 305: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
306: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
307: <p>
308:
1.216 jose 309: <li><strong>
310: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
311: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 312: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 313: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 314: <p>
315:
1.216 jose 316: <li><strong>
317: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
318: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 319: 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 320: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 321: <p>
322:
1.216 jose 323: <li><strong>
324: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
325: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 326: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
327: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 328: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
329: user groups.
330: <p>
331:
1.236 jose 332: <li><strong>
333: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 334: Group</a></strong>,
335: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 336: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
337: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
338: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
339: <p>
340:
1.216 jose 341: <li><strong>
342: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
343: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 344: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 345: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 346: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
347: <p>
348:
1.216 jose 349: <li><strong>
350: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
351: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 352: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
353: CD sets and Tshirts.
354: <p>
1.236 jose 355: </ul>
1.185 miod 356:
1.161 millert 357: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 358:
359: <ul>
360: <li><strong>
361: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 362: Congress</a></strong>,
363: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 364: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
365: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 366: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
367: <p>
1.177 jason 368:
1.216 jose 369: <li><strong>
370: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
371: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 372: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 373: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 374: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
375: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 376: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 377: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
378: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 379: <p>
1.178 pb 380:
1.216 jose 381: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 382: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 383: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
384: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 385: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
386: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
387: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
388: <p>
389:
1.216 jose 390: <li><strong>
391: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
392: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 393: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
394: Niels Provos presented his
395: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
396: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 397: <p>
1.172 miod 398:
1.216 jose 399: <li><strong>
400: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
401: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 402: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
403: <p>
404:
1.216 jose 405: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 406: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 407: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
408: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 409: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
410: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 411: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 412: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 413: <p>
1.168 miod 414:
1.216 jose 415: <li><strong>
416: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
417: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 418: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 419: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
420: are available.
1.161 millert 421: <p>
422:
1.216 jose 423: <li><strong>
424: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
425: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 426: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
427: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
428: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
429: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
430: <p>
431:
1.216 jose 432: <li><strong>
433: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
434: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 435: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
436: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
437: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
438: <p>
1.236 jose 439: </ul>
1.164 millert 440:
1.152 jakob 441: <h3>2001</h3>
442:
1.236 jose 443: <ul>
1.216 jose 444: <li><strong>
445: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
446: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 447: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
448: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
449: <p>
450:
1.216 jose 451: <li><strong>
452: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
453: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 454: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
455: <p>
456:
1.158 deraadt 457: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 458: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 459: 2001</a></strong>,
460: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 461: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
462: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
463: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
464: <p>
465:
1.216 jose 466: <li><strong>
467: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
468: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 469: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
470: <p>
471:
1.201 deraadt 472: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 473: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 474: Jakob and Itojun were there.
475: <p>
1.158 deraadt 476:
1.150 wvdputte 477: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 478: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 479: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 480: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
481: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
482: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 483: <p>
1.137 aaron 484:
485: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 486: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 487: Conference</a></strong>,
488: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 489: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
490: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
491: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
492: <p>
493:
494: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 495: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 496: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 497: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
498: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
499: <p>
500:
501: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 502: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 503: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
504: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 505: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
506: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
507: <p>
508:
509: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 510: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 511: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
512: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 513: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
514: <p>
515:
516: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 517: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 518: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 519: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 520: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
521: security community.
522: <p>
523:
524: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 525: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 526: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
527: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 528: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
529: <p>
530:
531: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 532: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 533: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 534: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 535: <p>
1.236 jose 536: </ul>
1.137 aaron 537:
1.132 louis 538: <h3>2000</h3>
539:
1.236 jose 540: <ul>
1.132 louis 541: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 542: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 543: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
544: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 545: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
546: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
547: <p>
548:
549: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 550: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 551: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 552: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
553: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
554: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
555: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 556: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 557: <p>
558:
559: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 560: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 561: 2000</a></strong>,
562: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 563: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 564: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 565: <p>
1.4 millert 566:
1.132 louis 567: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 568: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 569: Summit</a></strong>,
570: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 571: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 572: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
573: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
574:
575: <ul>
1.236 jose 576: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 577: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 578: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
579: </ul>
1.4 millert 580: <p>
1.132 louis 581:
1.7 deraadt 582: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 583: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 584: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 585: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
586: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 587: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 588: mind (drinks afterwards).
589: <p>
590:
1.216 jose 591: <li><strong>
592: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
593: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 594: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
595: questions.
1.32 deraadt 596: <p>
1.1 deraadt 597:
1.132 louis 598: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 599: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 600: Revolution</a></strong>,
601: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 602: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
603: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 604: <p>
605:
1.132 louis 606: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 607: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
608: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 609: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
610: <ul>
1.236 jose 611: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 612: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 613: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 614: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
615: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
616: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 617: <p>
1.132 louis 618:
1.10 provos 619: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 620: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 621: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 622: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 623: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
624: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
625: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
626: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
627: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
628: <br>
629: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
630: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
631: <p>
1.32 deraadt 632:
1.132 louis 633: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 634: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 635: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
636: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
637: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 638: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
639: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
640: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
641: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
642: and spoke about
643: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 644: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 645: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 646: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 647: <p>
1.132 louis 648:
1.6 deraadt 649: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 650: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 651: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 652: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
653: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
654: <br>
655: Christian Weisgerber gave a
656: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
657: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 658: <p>
1.1 deraadt 659:
1.216 jose 660: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 661: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 662: Conference.</a></strong>,
663: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 664: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
665: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
666: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
667: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
668: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 669: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 670: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
671: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
672: <ul>
673:
674: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
675: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 676: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 677: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
678: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
679:
680: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
681: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 682: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 683: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
684: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 685:
1.132 louis 686: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
687: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 688: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 689: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 690: <p>
691:
1.132 louis 692: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 693: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 694: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
695: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 696: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
697: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
698: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 699: <p>
1.2 deraadt 700:
1.132 louis 701: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 702: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
703: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 704: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
705: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
706: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
707: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
708: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 709: <p>
1.11 jkatz 710:
1.17 deraadt 711: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 712: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
713: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 714: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
715: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
716: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
717: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
718: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 719: <p>
1.17 deraadt 720:
1.23 niklas 721: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 722: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
723: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 724: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
725: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
726: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 727: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 728: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
729: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
730: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 731: <p>
1.25 deraadt 732:
1.132 louis 733: <li><strong>
734: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 735: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
736: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 737: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 738: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
739: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
740: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 741: <p>
1.23 niklas 742:
1.31 deraadt 743: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 744: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 745: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
746: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 747: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 748: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
749: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
750: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
751: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 752: <p>
1.31 deraadt 753:
1.201 deraadt 754: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 755: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 756: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
757: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
758: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
759: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 760: <p>
1.236 jose 761: </ul>
1.33 niklas 762:
1.132 louis 763: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 764:
1.236 jose 765: <ul>
1.216 jose 766: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
767: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 768: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 769: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 770: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
771: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
772: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 773: <p>
774:
1.216 jose 775: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 776: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 777: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
778: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 779: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
780: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
781: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
782: There were many other OpenBSD
783: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
784: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
785:
786: <ul>
787: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 788: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 789: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 790: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
791: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 792: </ul>
793: <p>
794:
795: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 796: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 797: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 798: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
799: <p>
800:
801: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 802: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 803: Software '99</a></strong>,
804: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 805: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 806: <a
807: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 808: <p>
809:
810: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 811: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 812: 1999</a></strong>,
813: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 814: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
815: developers from the east coast attended as well.
816: <p>
817:
1.236 jose 818: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 819: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
820: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 821: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
822: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 823: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
824: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
825: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
826: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
827: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
828: conference in Stockholm.
829: <p>
830:
831: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 832: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 833: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 834: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
835: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
836: coordinated.
837: <p>
838:
839: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 840: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 841: Security</a></strong>,
842: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 843: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
844: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
845: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
846: significant security roles.
847: <p>
848:
849: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 850: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 851: meeting</a></strong>,
852: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 853: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
854: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
855: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 856: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 857: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
858: <p>
1.45 jason 859:
1.132 louis 860: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 861: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 862: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 863: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
864: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 865: <p>
1.132 louis 866:
1.236 jose 867: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
868: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 869: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
870: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 871: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 872: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 873: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
874: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 875: June.)
1.132 louis 876: <br>
1.46 deraadt 877: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 878: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
879:
1.46 deraadt 880: <ul>
1.236 jose 881: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 882: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 883: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 884: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 885: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
886: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 887: <br>
1.66 deraadt 888: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 889: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 890: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 891: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
892: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 893: <br>
1.66 deraadt 894: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 895: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 896: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
897: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 898: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
899: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 900: <br>
1.66 deraadt 901: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 902: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 903: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 904: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
905: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 906: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 907: <p>
1.46 deraadt 908:
1.51 deraadt 909: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 910: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 911: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 912: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
913: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
914: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
915: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
916: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 917: <p>
918:
1.53 jakob 919: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 920: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 921: meeting</a></strong>,
922: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 923: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
924: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 925: <p>
926:
1.132 louis 927: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 928: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 929: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
930: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 931: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
932: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
933: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
934: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 935: <p>
1.236 jose 936: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 937:
1.132 louis 938: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 939:
1.236 jose 940: <ul>
1.132 louis 941: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 942: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
943: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 944: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 945: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 946: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 947: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
948: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
949: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
950: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 951: <p>
952:
1.236 jose 953: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
954: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 955: Conference</a></strong>,
956: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 957: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
958: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
959: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
960: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
961: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
962: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
963: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
964: <br>
965: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
966: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
967: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 968: <p>
969:
1.73 deraadt 970: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 971: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 972: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 973: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 974: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 975: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 976: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 977: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 978: <p>
1.73 deraadt 979:
1.236 jose 980: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 981: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 982: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
983: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
984: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
985: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
986: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 987: <p>
1.73 deraadt 988:
1.80 deraadt 989: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 990: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
991: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 992: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 993: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 994: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 995: <p>
996:
1.93 louis 997: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 998: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 999: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1000: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1001: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1002: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1003: <p>
1004:
1.216 jose 1005: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1006: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1007: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1008: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1009: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1010: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1011: <p>
1012:
1.236 jose 1013: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1014: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1015: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1016: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1017: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1018: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1019: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1020: <br>
1021: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1022: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1023: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1024: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1025: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1026:
1.236 jose 1027: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1028: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1029: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1030: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1031: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1032: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1033: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1034: <p>
1035:
1.236 jose 1036: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1037: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1038: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1039: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1040: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1041: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1042: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1043: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1044: <br>
1045: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1046: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1047: <p>
1048:
1.105 wvdputte 1049: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1050: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1051: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1052: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1053: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1054: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1055: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1056: <br>
1.132 louis 1057: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1058: <p>
1.236 jose 1059: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1060:
1.132 louis 1061: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1062:
1.236 jose 1063: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1064: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1065: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1066: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1067: Niels held a
1068: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1069: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1070: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1071: <p>
1.132 louis 1072:
1.236 jose 1073: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1074: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1075: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1076: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1077: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1078: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1079:
1.236 jose 1080: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1081: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1082: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1083: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1084: <br>
1085: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1086: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1087: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1088: <p>
1089:
1.125 deraadt 1090: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1091: <a
1092: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1093: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1094: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1095: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1096: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1097:
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