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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>
1.251 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>
1.253 ! saad 46: Theo de Raadt will be giving a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and
1.251 deraadt 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>.
1.252 deraadt 90: <p>
91:
92: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
93: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
94: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
95: Theo de Raadt intends to present a talk.
96: <p>
97:
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1.152 jakob 99: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 114: <h2>Past events:</h2>
115:
1.240 espie 116: <h3>2004</h3>
117:
118: <ul>
1.248 deraadt 119:
120: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
121: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
122: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
123:
124: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
125: about newer features in pf, focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP
126: and pfsync. Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
127: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
128: <p>
129:
1.247 canacar 130: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
131: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
132: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
133: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
134: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
135: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
136: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
137: projects were discussed.<br>
138: You can view the
139: <a href="http://www.mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
140: slides in PDF format</a> the
141: <a href="http://www.mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
142: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
143: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
144: <p>
145:
1.242 henning 146: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
147: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
148: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 149: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
150: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
151: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
152: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
153: and systrace
154: (<a href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
155: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
156: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
157: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 158: <p>
159:
1.240 espie 160: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
161: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
162: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
163: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
164: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
165: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
166: <p>
167:
168: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
169: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
170: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
171: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
172: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
173: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
174: <p>
175: </ul>
176:
1.188 henning 177: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 178:
179: <ul>
1.232 jose 180: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
181: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
182: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
183: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
184: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 185: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
186: <a href="http://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/grunk/vortraege/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 187: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 188: <p>
1.232 jose 189:
1.228 jose 190: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 191: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 192: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
193: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 194: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
195: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 196: with OpenBSD PF.
197: <p>
198:
199: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
200: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
201: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
202: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
203: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 204: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
205: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
206: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
207: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
208: <a href="http://mindcast.org/~bdd/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
209: slides in PDF format </a>
210: (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 211: <p>
212:
1.227 jose 213: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
214: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
215: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
216: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
217: <p>
218:
219: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
220: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
221: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 222: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 223: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 224: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
225: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 226: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 227: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 228: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 229: in Internet worm defenses.
230: <p>
231:
1.224 miod 232: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
233: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
234: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
235: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
236: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
237: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
238: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
239: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
240: OpenBSD.
241: <p>
242:
243: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
244: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
245: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
246: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
247: <p>
248:
249: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
250: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
251: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
252: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
253: <p>
254:
1.219 jose 255: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
256: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
257: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 258: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 259: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
260: <p>
261:
1.218 jose 262: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
263: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
264: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 265: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 266: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
267: <p>
268:
1.214 henning 269: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
270: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 271: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 272: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
273: <p>
274:
1.213 jose 275: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
276: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 277: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 278: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 279: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
280: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
281: <p>
282:
1.211 jose 283: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
284: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 285: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 286: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
287: <p>
288:
289: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
290: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 291: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 292: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 293: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
294: <p>
295:
1.209 wvdputte 296: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
297: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 298: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 299: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
300: <p>
1.195 deraadt 301:
1.202 jason 302: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 303: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 304: Conference</a></strong>,
305: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 306: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
307: <ul>
1.216 jose 308: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 309: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 310: Angelos D. Keromytis,
311: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 312: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 313: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
314: </ul>
315: <p>
316:
1.201 deraadt 317: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 318: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 319: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
320: session.
321: <p>
322:
1.216 jose 323: <li><strong>
324: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
325: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 326: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
327: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
328: <p>
329:
1.216 jose 330: <li><strong>
331: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
332: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 333: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 334: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 335: <p>
336:
1.216 jose 337: <li><strong>
338: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
339: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 340: 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 341: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 342: <p>
343:
1.216 jose 344: <li><strong>
345: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
346: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 347: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
348: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 349: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
350: user groups.
351: <p>
352:
1.236 jose 353: <li><strong>
354: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 355: Group</a></strong>,
356: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 357: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
358: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
359: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
360: <p>
361:
1.216 jose 362: <li><strong>
363: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
364: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 365: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 366: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 367: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
368: <p>
369:
1.216 jose 370: <li><strong>
371: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
372: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 373: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
374: CD sets and Tshirts.
375: <p>
1.236 jose 376: </ul>
1.185 miod 377:
1.161 millert 378: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 379:
380: <ul>
381: <li><strong>
382: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 383: Congress</a></strong>,
384: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 385: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
386: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 387: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
388: <p>
1.177 jason 389:
1.216 jose 390: <li><strong>
391: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
392: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 393: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 394: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 395: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
396: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 397: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 398: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
399: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 400: <p>
1.178 pb 401:
1.216 jose 402: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 403: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 404: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
405: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 406: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
407: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
408: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
409: <p>
410:
1.216 jose 411: <li><strong>
412: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
413: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 414: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
415: Niels Provos presented his
416: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
417: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 418: <p>
1.172 miod 419:
1.216 jose 420: <li><strong>
421: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
422: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 423: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
424: <p>
425:
1.216 jose 426: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 427: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 428: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
429: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 430: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
431: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 432: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 433: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 434: <p>
1.168 miod 435:
1.216 jose 436: <li><strong>
437: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
438: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 439: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 440: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
441: are available.
1.161 millert 442: <p>
443:
1.216 jose 444: <li><strong>
445: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
446: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 447: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
448: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
449: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
450: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
451: <p>
452:
1.216 jose 453: <li><strong>
454: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
455: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 456: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
457: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
458: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
459: <p>
1.236 jose 460: </ul>
1.164 millert 461:
1.152 jakob 462: <h3>2001</h3>
463:
1.236 jose 464: <ul>
1.216 jose 465: <li><strong>
466: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
467: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 468: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
469: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
470: <p>
471:
1.216 jose 472: <li><strong>
473: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
474: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 475: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
476: <p>
477:
1.158 deraadt 478: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 479: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 480: 2001</a></strong>,
481: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 482: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
483: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
484: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
485: <p>
486:
1.216 jose 487: <li><strong>
488: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
489: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 490: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
491: <p>
492:
1.201 deraadt 493: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 494: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 495: Jakob and Itojun were there.
496: <p>
1.158 deraadt 497:
1.150 wvdputte 498: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 499: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 500: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 501: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
502: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
503: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 504: <p>
1.137 aaron 505:
506: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 507: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 508: Conference</a></strong>,
509: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 510: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
511: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
512: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
513: <p>
514:
515: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 516: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 517: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 518: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
519: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
520: <p>
521:
522: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 523: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 524: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
525: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 526: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
527: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
528: <p>
529:
530: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 531: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 532: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
533: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 534: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
535: <p>
536:
537: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 538: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 539: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 540: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 541: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
542: security community.
543: <p>
544:
545: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 546: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 547: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
548: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 549: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
550: <p>
551:
552: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 553: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 554: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 555: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 556: <p>
1.236 jose 557: </ul>
1.137 aaron 558:
1.132 louis 559: <h3>2000</h3>
560:
1.236 jose 561: <ul>
1.132 louis 562: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 563: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 564: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
565: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 566: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
567: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
568: <p>
569:
570: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 571: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 572: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 573: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
574: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
575: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
576: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 577: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 578: <p>
579:
580: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 581: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 582: 2000</a></strong>,
583: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 584: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 585: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 586: <p>
1.4 millert 587:
1.132 louis 588: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 589: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 590: Summit</a></strong>,
591: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 592: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 593: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
594: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
595:
596: <ul>
1.236 jose 597: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 598: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 599: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
600: </ul>
1.4 millert 601: <p>
1.132 louis 602:
1.7 deraadt 603: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 604: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 605: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 606: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
607: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 608: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 609: mind (drinks afterwards).
610: <p>
611:
1.216 jose 612: <li><strong>
613: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
614: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 615: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
616: questions.
1.32 deraadt 617: <p>
1.1 deraadt 618:
1.132 louis 619: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 620: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 621: Revolution</a></strong>,
622: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 623: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
624: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 625: <p>
626:
1.132 louis 627: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 628: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
629: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 630: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
631: <ul>
1.236 jose 632: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 633: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 634: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 635: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
636: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
637: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 638: <p>
1.132 louis 639:
1.10 provos 640: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 641: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 642: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 643: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 644: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
645: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
646: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
647: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
648: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
649: <br>
650: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
651: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
652: <p>
1.32 deraadt 653:
1.132 louis 654: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 655: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 656: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
657: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
658: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 659: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
660: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
661: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
662: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
663: and spoke about
664: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 665: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 666: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 667: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 668: <p>
1.132 louis 669:
1.6 deraadt 670: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 671: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 672: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 673: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
674: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
675: <br>
676: Christian Weisgerber gave a
677: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
678: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 679: <p>
1.1 deraadt 680:
1.216 jose 681: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 682: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 683: Conference.</a></strong>,
684: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 685: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
686: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
687: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
688: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
689: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 690: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 691: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
692: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
693: <ul>
694:
695: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
696: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 697: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 698: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
699: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
700:
701: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
702: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 703: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 704: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
705: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 706:
1.132 louis 707: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
708: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 709: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 710: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 711: <p>
712:
1.132 louis 713: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 714: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 715: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
716: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 717: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
718: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
719: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 720: <p>
1.2 deraadt 721:
1.132 louis 722: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 723: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
724: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 725: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
726: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
727: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
728: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
729: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 730: <p>
1.11 jkatz 731:
1.17 deraadt 732: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 733: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
734: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 735: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
736: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
737: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
738: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
739: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 740: <p>
1.17 deraadt 741:
1.23 niklas 742: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 743: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
744: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 745: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
746: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
747: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 748: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 749: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
750: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
751: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 752: <p>
1.25 deraadt 753:
1.132 louis 754: <li><strong>
755: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 756: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
757: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 758: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 759: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
760: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
761: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 762: <p>
1.23 niklas 763:
1.31 deraadt 764: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 765: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 766: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
767: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 768: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 769: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
770: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
771: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
772: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 773: <p>
1.31 deraadt 774:
1.201 deraadt 775: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 776: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 777: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
778: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
779: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
780: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 781: <p>
1.236 jose 782: </ul>
1.33 niklas 783:
1.132 louis 784: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 785:
1.236 jose 786: <ul>
1.216 jose 787: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
788: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 789: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 790: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 791: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
792: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
793: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 794: <p>
795:
1.216 jose 796: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 797: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 798: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
799: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 800: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
801: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
802: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
803: There were many other OpenBSD
804: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
805: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
806:
807: <ul>
808: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 809: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 810: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 811: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
812: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 813: </ul>
814: <p>
815:
816: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 817: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 818: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 819: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
820: <p>
821:
822: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 823: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 824: Software '99</a></strong>,
825: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 826: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 827: <a
828: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 829: <p>
830:
831: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 832: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 833: 1999</a></strong>,
834: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 835: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
836: developers from the east coast attended as well.
837: <p>
838:
1.236 jose 839: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 840: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
841: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 842: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
843: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 844: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
845: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
846: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
847: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
848: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
849: conference in Stockholm.
850: <p>
851:
852: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 853: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 854: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 855: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
856: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
857: coordinated.
858: <p>
859:
860: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 861: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 862: Security</a></strong>,
863: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 864: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
865: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
866: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
867: significant security roles.
868: <p>
869:
870: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 871: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 872: meeting</a></strong>,
873: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 874: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
875: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
876: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 877: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 878: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
879: <p>
1.45 jason 880:
1.132 louis 881: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 882: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 883: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 884: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
885: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 886: <p>
1.132 louis 887:
1.236 jose 888: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
889: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 890: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
891: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 892: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 893: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 894: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
895: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 896: June.)
1.132 louis 897: <br>
1.46 deraadt 898: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 899: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
900:
1.46 deraadt 901: <ul>
1.236 jose 902: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 903: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 904: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 905: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 906: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
907: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 908: <br>
1.66 deraadt 909: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 910: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 911: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 912: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
913: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 914: <br>
1.66 deraadt 915: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 916: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 917: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
918: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 919: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
920: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 921: <br>
1.66 deraadt 922: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 923: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 924: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 925: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
926: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 927: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 928: <p>
1.46 deraadt 929:
1.51 deraadt 930: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 931: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 932: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 933: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
934: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
935: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
936: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
937: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 938: <p>
939:
1.53 jakob 940: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 941: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 942: meeting</a></strong>,
943: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 944: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
945: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 946: <p>
947:
1.132 louis 948: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 949: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 950: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
951: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 952: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
953: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
954: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
955: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 956: <p>
1.236 jose 957: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 958:
1.132 louis 959: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 960:
1.236 jose 961: <ul>
1.132 louis 962: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 963: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
964: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 965: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 966: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 967: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 968: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
969: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
970: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
971: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 972: <p>
973:
1.236 jose 974: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
975: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 976: Conference</a></strong>,
977: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 978: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
979: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
980: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
981: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
982: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
983: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
984: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
985: <br>
986: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
987: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
988: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 989: <p>
990:
1.73 deraadt 991: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 992: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 993: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 994: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 995: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 996: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 997: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 998: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 999: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1000:
1.236 jose 1001: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1002: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1003: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1004: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1005: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1006: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1007: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1008: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1009:
1.80 deraadt 1010: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1011: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1012: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1013: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1014: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1015: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1016: <p>
1017:
1.93 louis 1018: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1019: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1020: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1021: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1022: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1023: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1024: <p>
1025:
1.216 jose 1026: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1027: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1028: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1029: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1030: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1031: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1032: <p>
1033:
1.236 jose 1034: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1035: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1036: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1037: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1038: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1039: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1040: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1041: <br>
1042: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1043: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1044: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1045: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1046: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1047:
1.236 jose 1048: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1049: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1050: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1051: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1052: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1053: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1054: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1055: <p>
1056:
1.236 jose 1057: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1058: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1059: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1060: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1061: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1062: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1063: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1064: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1065: <br>
1066: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1067: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1068: <p>
1069:
1.105 wvdputte 1070: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1071: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1072: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1073: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1074: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1075: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1076: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1077: <br>
1.132 louis 1078: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1079: <p>
1.236 jose 1080: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1081:
1.132 louis 1082: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1083:
1.236 jose 1084: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1085: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1086: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1087: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1088: Niels held a
1089: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1090: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1091: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1092: <p>
1.132 louis 1093:
1.236 jose 1094: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1095: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1096: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1097: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1098: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1099: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1100:
1.236 jose 1101: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1102: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1103: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1104: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1105: <br>
1106: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1107: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1108: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1109: <p>
1110:
1.125 deraadt 1111: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1112: <a
1113: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1114: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1115: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1116: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1117: </ul>
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