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1.236 jose 15: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
16: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
17: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
18: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 19: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 21: <hr>
22:
23: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 24:
1.220 wvdputte 25: <h3>2004</h3>
1.236 jose 26:
27: <ul>
1.251 ! deraadt 28:
1.249 wvdputte 29: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1.250 saad 30: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
31: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
32: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact
33: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.249 wvdputte 34: <p>
35:
36: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1.250 saad 37: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
38: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
39: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact
40: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.251 ! deraadt 41: <p>
! 42:
! 43: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
! 44: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">Auug 2004</a></strong>,
! 45: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
! 46: They de Raadt will be giving a half-day tuturial on privilege seperation and
! 47: presenting a talk.
! 48: For more information, see this
! 49: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
! 50: ComputerWorld article</a>.
! 51: <p>
1.249 wvdputte 52:
53: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1.250 saad 54: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SuCon 2004</a></strong>,
55: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
56: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact
57: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.251 ! deraadt 58: <p>
1.249 wvdputte 59:
60: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
61: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
62: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
63: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
64: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
65: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
66: event."
67: <br>
68: Although this is a Linux developers' conference, we will be able to run a
69: regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
70: Because there is quite a user community in the Erlangen-Nuremberg area,
71: cheap or low-budget accomodations for developers and OpenBSD staff should be
72: possible to organize.
73: <br>
74: If you want to help us working at the booth in Erlangen, please contact
75: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a>.
76: <p>
77:
78: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1.250 saad 79: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
80: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
81: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact
82: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.249 wvdputte 83: <p>
84:
85: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1.250 saad 86: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
87: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
88: There is an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, contact
89: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.236 jose 90: </ul>
1.152 jakob 91: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 106: <h2>Past events:</h2>
107:
1.240 espie 108: <h3>2004</h3>
109:
110: <ul>
1.248 deraadt 111:
112: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
113: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
114: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
115:
116: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
117: about newer features in pf, focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP
118: and pfsync. Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
119: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
120: <p>
121:
1.247 canacar 122: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
123: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
124: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
125: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
126: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
127: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
128: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
129: projects were discussed.<br>
130: You can view the
131: <a href="http://www.mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
132: slides in PDF format</a> the
133: <a href="http://www.mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
134: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
135: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
136: <p>
137:
1.242 henning 138: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
139: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
140: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 141: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
142: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
143: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
144: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
145: and systrace
146: (<a href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
147: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
148: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
149: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 150: <p>
151:
1.240 espie 152: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
153: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
154: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
155: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
156: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
157: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
158: <p>
159:
160: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
161: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
162: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
163: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
164: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
165: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
166: <p>
167: </ul>
168:
1.188 henning 169: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 170:
171: <ul>
1.232 jose 172: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
173: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
174: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
175: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
176: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 177: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
178: <a href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 179: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 180: <p>
1.232 jose 181:
1.228 jose 182: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 183: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 184: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
185: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 186: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
187: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 188: with OpenBSD PF.
189: <p>
190:
191: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
192: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
193: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
194: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
195: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 196: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
197: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
198: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
199: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
200: <a href="http://mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
201: slides in PDF format </a>
202: (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 203: <p>
204:
1.227 jose 205: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
206: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
207: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
208: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
209: <p>
210:
211: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
212: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
213: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 214: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 215: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 216: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
217: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 218: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 219: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 220: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 221: in Internet worm defenses.
222: <p>
223:
1.224 miod 224: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
225: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
226: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
227: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
228: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
229: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
230: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
231: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
232: OpenBSD.
233: <p>
234:
235: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
236: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
237: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
238: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
239: <p>
240:
241: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
242: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
243: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
244: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
245: <p>
246:
1.219 jose 247: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
248: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
249: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 250: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 251: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
252: <p>
253:
1.218 jose 254: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
255: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
256: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 257: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 258: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
259: <p>
260:
1.214 henning 261: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
262: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 263: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 264: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
265: <p>
266:
1.213 jose 267: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
268: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 269: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 270: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 271: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
272: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
273: <p>
274:
1.211 jose 275: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
276: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 277: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 278: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
279: <p>
280:
281: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
282: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 283: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 284: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 285: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
286: <p>
287:
1.209 wvdputte 288: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
289: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 290: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 291: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
292: <p>
1.195 deraadt 293:
1.202 jason 294: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 295: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 296: Conference</a></strong>,
297: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 298: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
299: <ul>
1.216 jose 300: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 301: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 302: Angelos D. Keromytis,
303: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 304: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 305: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
306: </ul>
307: <p>
308:
1.201 deraadt 309: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 310: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 311: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
312: session.
313: <p>
314:
1.216 jose 315: <li><strong>
316: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
317: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 318: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
319: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
320: <p>
321:
1.216 jose 322: <li><strong>
323: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
324: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 325: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 326: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 327: <p>
328:
1.216 jose 329: <li><strong>
330: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
331: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 332: 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 333: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 334: <p>
335:
1.216 jose 336: <li><strong>
337: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
338: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 339: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
340: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 341: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
342: user groups.
343: <p>
344:
1.236 jose 345: <li><strong>
346: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 347: Group</a></strong>,
348: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 349: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
350: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
351: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
352: <p>
353:
1.216 jose 354: <li><strong>
355: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
356: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 357: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 358: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 359: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
360: <p>
361:
1.216 jose 362: <li><strong>
363: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
364: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 365: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
366: CD sets and Tshirts.
367: <p>
1.236 jose 368: </ul>
1.185 miod 369:
1.161 millert 370: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 371:
372: <ul>
373: <li><strong>
374: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 375: Congress</a></strong>,
376: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 377: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
378: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 379: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
380: <p>
1.177 jason 381:
1.216 jose 382: <li><strong>
383: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
384: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 385: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 386: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 387: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
388: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 389: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 390: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
391: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 392: <p>
1.178 pb 393:
1.216 jose 394: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 395: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 396: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
397: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 398: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
399: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
400: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
401: <p>
402:
1.216 jose 403: <li><strong>
404: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
405: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 406: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
407: Niels Provos presented his
408: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
409: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 410: <p>
1.172 miod 411:
1.216 jose 412: <li><strong>
413: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
414: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 415: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
416: <p>
417:
1.216 jose 418: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 419: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 420: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
421: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 422: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
423: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 424: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 425: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 426: <p>
1.168 miod 427:
1.216 jose 428: <li><strong>
429: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
430: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 431: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 432: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
433: are available.
1.161 millert 434: <p>
435:
1.216 jose 436: <li><strong>
437: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
438: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 439: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
440: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
441: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
442: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
443: <p>
444:
1.216 jose 445: <li><strong>
446: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
447: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 448: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
449: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
450: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
451: <p>
1.236 jose 452: </ul>
1.164 millert 453:
1.152 jakob 454: <h3>2001</h3>
455:
1.236 jose 456: <ul>
1.216 jose 457: <li><strong>
458: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
459: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 460: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
461: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
462: <p>
463:
1.216 jose 464: <li><strong>
465: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
466: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 467: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
468: <p>
469:
1.158 deraadt 470: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 471: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 472: 2001</a></strong>,
473: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 474: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
475: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
476: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
477: <p>
478:
1.216 jose 479: <li><strong>
480: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
481: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 482: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
483: <p>
484:
1.201 deraadt 485: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 486: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 487: Jakob and Itojun were there.
488: <p>
1.158 deraadt 489:
1.150 wvdputte 490: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 491: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 492: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 493: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
494: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
495: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 496: <p>
1.137 aaron 497:
498: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 499: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 500: Conference</a></strong>,
501: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 502: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
503: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
504: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
505: <p>
506:
507: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 508: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 509: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 510: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
511: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
512: <p>
513:
514: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 515: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 516: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
517: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 518: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
519: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
520: <p>
521:
522: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 523: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 524: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
525: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 526: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
527: <p>
528:
529: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 530: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 531: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 532: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 533: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
534: security community.
535: <p>
536:
537: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 538: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 539: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
540: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 541: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
542: <p>
543:
544: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 545: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 546: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 547: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 548: <p>
1.236 jose 549: </ul>
1.137 aaron 550:
1.132 louis 551: <h3>2000</h3>
552:
1.236 jose 553: <ul>
1.132 louis 554: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 555: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 556: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
557: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 558: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
559: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
560: <p>
561:
562: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 563: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 564: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 565: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
566: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
567: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
568: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 569: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 570: <p>
571:
572: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 573: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 574: 2000</a></strong>,
575: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 576: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 577: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 578: <p>
1.4 millert 579:
1.132 louis 580: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 581: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 582: Summit</a></strong>,
583: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 584: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 585: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
586: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
587:
588: <ul>
1.236 jose 589: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 590: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 591: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
592: </ul>
1.4 millert 593: <p>
1.132 louis 594:
1.7 deraadt 595: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 596: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 597: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 598: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
599: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 600: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 601: mind (drinks afterwards).
602: <p>
603:
1.216 jose 604: <li><strong>
605: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
606: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 607: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
608: questions.
1.32 deraadt 609: <p>
1.1 deraadt 610:
1.132 louis 611: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 612: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 613: Revolution</a></strong>,
614: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 615: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
616: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 617: <p>
618:
1.132 louis 619: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 620: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
621: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 622: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
623: <ul>
1.236 jose 624: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 625: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 626: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 627: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
628: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
629: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 630: <p>
1.132 louis 631:
1.10 provos 632: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 633: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 634: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 635: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 636: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
637: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
638: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
639: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
640: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
641: <br>
642: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
643: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
644: <p>
1.32 deraadt 645:
1.132 louis 646: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 647: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 648: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
649: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
650: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 651: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
652: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
653: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
654: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
655: and spoke about
656: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 657: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 658: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 659: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 660: <p>
1.132 louis 661:
1.6 deraadt 662: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 663: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 664: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 665: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
666: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
667: <br>
668: Christian Weisgerber gave a
669: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
670: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 671: <p>
1.1 deraadt 672:
1.216 jose 673: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 674: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 675: Conference.</a></strong>,
676: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 677: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
678: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
679: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
680: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
681: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 682: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 683: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
684: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
685: <ul>
686:
687: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
688: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 689: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 690: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
691: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
692:
693: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
694: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 695: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 696: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
697: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 698:
1.132 louis 699: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
700: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 701: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 702: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 703: <p>
704:
1.132 louis 705: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 706: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 707: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
708: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 709: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
710: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
711: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 712: <p>
1.2 deraadt 713:
1.132 louis 714: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 715: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
716: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 717: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
718: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
719: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
720: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
721: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 722: <p>
1.11 jkatz 723:
1.17 deraadt 724: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 725: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
726: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 727: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
728: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
729: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
730: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
731: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 732: <p>
1.17 deraadt 733:
1.23 niklas 734: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 735: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
736: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 737: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
738: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
739: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 740: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 741: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
742: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
743: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 744: <p>
1.25 deraadt 745:
1.132 louis 746: <li><strong>
747: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 748: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
749: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 750: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 751: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
752: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
753: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 754: <p>
1.23 niklas 755:
1.31 deraadt 756: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 757: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 758: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
759: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 760: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 761: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
762: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
763: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
764: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 765: <p>
1.31 deraadt 766:
1.201 deraadt 767: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 768: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 769: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
770: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
771: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
772: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 773: <p>
1.236 jose 774: </ul>
1.33 niklas 775:
1.132 louis 776: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 777:
1.236 jose 778: <ul>
1.216 jose 779: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
780: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 781: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 782: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 783: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
784: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
785: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 786: <p>
787:
1.216 jose 788: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 789: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 790: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
791: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 792: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
793: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
794: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
795: There were many other OpenBSD
796: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
797: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
798:
799: <ul>
800: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 801: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 802: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 803: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
804: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 805: </ul>
806: <p>
807:
808: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 809: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 810: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 811: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
812: <p>
813:
814: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 815: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 816: Software '99</a></strong>,
817: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 818: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 819: <a
820: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 821: <p>
822:
823: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 824: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 825: 1999</a></strong>,
826: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 827: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
828: developers from the east coast attended as well.
829: <p>
830:
1.236 jose 831: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 832: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
833: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 834: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
835: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 836: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
837: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
838: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
839: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
840: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
841: conference in Stockholm.
842: <p>
843:
844: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 845: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 846: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 847: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
848: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
849: coordinated.
850: <p>
851:
852: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 853: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 854: Security</a></strong>,
855: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 856: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
857: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
858: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
859: significant security roles.
860: <p>
861:
862: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 863: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 864: meeting</a></strong>,
865: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 866: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
867: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
868: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 869: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 870: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
871: <p>
1.45 jason 872:
1.132 louis 873: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 874: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 875: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 876: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
877: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 878: <p>
1.132 louis 879:
1.236 jose 880: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
881: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 882: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
883: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 884: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 885: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 886: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
887: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 888: June.)
1.132 louis 889: <br>
1.46 deraadt 890: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 891: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
892:
1.46 deraadt 893: <ul>
1.236 jose 894: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 895: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 896: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 897: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 898: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
899: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 900: <br>
1.66 deraadt 901: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 902: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 903: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 904: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
905: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 906: <br>
1.66 deraadt 907: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 908: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 909: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
910: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 911: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
912: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 913: <br>
1.66 deraadt 914: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 915: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 916: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 917: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
918: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 919: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 920: <p>
1.46 deraadt 921:
1.51 deraadt 922: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 923: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 924: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 925: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
926: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
927: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
928: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
929: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 930: <p>
931:
1.53 jakob 932: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 933: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 934: meeting</a></strong>,
935: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 936: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
937: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 938: <p>
939:
1.132 louis 940: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 941: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 942: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
943: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 944: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
945: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
946: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
947: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 948: <p>
1.236 jose 949: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 950:
1.132 louis 951: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 952:
1.236 jose 953: <ul>
1.132 louis 954: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 955: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
956: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 957: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 958: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 959: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 960: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
961: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
962: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
963: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 964: <p>
965:
1.236 jose 966: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
967: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 968: Conference</a></strong>,
969: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 970: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
971: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
972: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
973: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
974: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
975: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
976: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
977: <br>
978: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
979: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
980: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 981: <p>
982:
1.73 deraadt 983: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 984: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 985: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 986: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 987: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 988: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 989: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 990: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 991: <p>
1.73 deraadt 992:
1.236 jose 993: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 994: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 995: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
996: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
997: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
998: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
999: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1000: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1001:
1.80 deraadt 1002: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1003: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1004: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1005: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1006: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1007: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1008: <p>
1009:
1.93 louis 1010: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1011: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1012: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1013: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1014: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1015: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1016: <p>
1017:
1.216 jose 1018: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1019: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1020: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1021: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1022: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1023: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1024: <p>
1025:
1.236 jose 1026: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1027: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1028: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1029: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1030: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1031: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1032: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1033: <br>
1034: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1035: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1036: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1037: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1038: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1039:
1.236 jose 1040: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1041: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1042: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1043: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1044: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1045: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1046: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1047: <p>
1048:
1.236 jose 1049: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1050: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1051: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1052: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1053: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1054: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1055: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1056: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1057: <br>
1058: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1059: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1060: <p>
1061:
1.105 wvdputte 1062: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1063: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1064: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1065: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1066: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1067: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1068: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1069: <br>
1.132 louis 1070: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1071: <p>
1.236 jose 1072: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1073:
1.132 louis 1074: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1075:
1.236 jose 1076: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1077: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1078: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1079: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1080: Niels held a
1081: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1082: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1083: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1084: <p>
1.132 louis 1085:
1.236 jose 1086: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1087: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1088: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1089: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1090: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1091: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1092:
1.236 jose 1093: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1094: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1095: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1096: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1097: <br>
1098: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1099: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1100: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1101: <p>
1102:
1.125 deraadt 1103: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1104: <a
1105: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1106: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1107: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1108: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1109: </ul>
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