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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:
1.287 ! henning 25: <h3>2005</h3>
1.236 jose 26:
27: <ul>
1.287 ! henning 28: <li>None yet.<p>
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1.152 jakob 45: <h2>Past events:</h2>
46:
1.240 espie 47: <h3>2004</h3>
48:
49: <ul>
1.287 ! henning 50: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
! 51: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
! 52: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
! 53: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
! 54: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
! 55: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
! 56: Uwe Stuehler, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
! 57: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
! 58: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
! 59: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
! 60: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
! 61: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
! 62: This installation was a very successful test of the new
! 63: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
! 64: driver.
! 65: <p>
1.248 deraadt 66:
1.286 kevlo 67: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
68: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
69: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
70: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
71: <p>
72:
1.285 deraadt 73: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
74: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
75: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
76: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
77: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
78: <p>
79:
1.283 saad 80: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
81: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
82: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
83: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
84: meeting of the
85: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
86: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 87: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 88: <p>
89:
1.282 henning 90: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
91: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
92: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
93: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
94: two days, on bgpd
95: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
96: ntpd
97: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
98: and signal handlers
99: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
100: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
101: <p>
102:
1.275 deraadt 103: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
104: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
105: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
106: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
107: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
108: Room B-02 of the
109: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
110: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
111: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
112: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
113: The talk was also given the following day at the
114: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
115: <p>
116:
1.271 henning 117: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
118: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
119: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 120: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
121: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 122: Henning gave a talk
1.272 henning 123: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
124: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 125: <p>
126:
127: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
128: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
129: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 130: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
131: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 132: <p>
133:
1.276 deraadt 134: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 135: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
136: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
137: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
138: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
139: <p>
140:
141: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 142: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
143: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
144: <p>
145:
146: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
147: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
148: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
149: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
150: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
151: <p>
152:
1.268 krw 153: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
154: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
155: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
156: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
157: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
158: <p>
159:
160: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
161: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
162: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
163: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
164: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
165: <p>
166:
167: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
168: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
169: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
170: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
171: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
172: <p>
173:
1.265 wvdputte 174: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
175: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
176: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
177: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
178: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
179: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
180: event."
181: <br>
182: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
183: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
184: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
185: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
186: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
187: <br>
188: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
189: <p>
190:
1.262 henning 191: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
192: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
193: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
194: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
195: Henning's slides from his talks about
196: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
197: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
198: are available.
199: <p>
200:
1.261 deraadt 201: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 202: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 203: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
204: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
205: newly extended version of the
206: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
207: For more information, see this
208: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
209: ComputerWorld article</a>.
210: <p>
211:
212:
1.257 saad 213: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
214: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
215: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
216: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
217: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
218: <p>
219:
220: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
221: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
222: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
223: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
224: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
225: <p>
226:
1.256 mickey 227: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
228: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
229: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
230: session.
231: <p>
232:
1.254 xsa 233: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 234: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 235: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
236: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
237: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
238: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
239: a basic talk about pf.
240: <p>
241:
1.248 deraadt 242: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
243: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
244: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
245: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
246: about newer features in pf, focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP
247: and pfsync. Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
248: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
249: <p>
250:
1.247 canacar 251: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
252: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
253: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
254: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
255: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
256: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
257: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
258: projects were discussed.<br>
259: You can view the
1.281 canacar 260: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 261: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 262: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 263: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
264: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
265: <p>
266:
1.242 henning 267: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
268: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
269: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 270: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
271: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
272: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
273: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
274: and systrace
1.263 saad 275: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 276: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
277: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
278: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 279: <p>
280:
1.240 espie 281: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
282: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
283: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
284: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
285: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
286: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
287: <p>
288:
289: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
290: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
291: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
292: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
293: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
294: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
295: <p>
296: </ul>
297:
1.188 henning 298: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 299:
300: <ul>
1.232 jose 301: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
302: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
303: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
304: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
305: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 306: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 307: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 308: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 309: <p>
1.232 jose 310:
1.228 jose 311: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 312: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 313: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
314: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 315: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
316: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 317: with OpenBSD PF.
318: <p>
319:
320: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
321: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
322: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
323: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
324: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 325: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
326: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
327: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
328: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 329: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 330: slides in PDF format </a>
331: (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 332: <p>
333:
1.227 jose 334: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
335: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
336: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
337: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
338: <p>
339:
340: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
341: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
342: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 343: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 344: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 345: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
346: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 347: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 348: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 349: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 350: in Internet worm defenses.
351: <p>
352:
1.224 miod 353: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
354: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
355: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
356: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
357: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
358: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
359: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
360: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
361: OpenBSD.
362: <p>
363:
364: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
365: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
366: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
367: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
368: <p>
369:
370: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
371: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
372: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
373: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
374: <p>
375:
1.219 jose 376: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
377: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
378: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 379: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 380: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
381: <p>
382:
1.218 jose 383: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
384: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
385: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 386: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 387: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
388: <p>
389:
1.214 henning 390: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
391: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 392: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 393: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
394: <p>
395:
1.213 jose 396: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
397: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 398: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 399: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 400: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
401: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
402: <p>
403:
1.211 jose 404: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
405: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 406: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 407: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
408: <p>
409:
410: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
411: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 412: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 413: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 414: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
415: <p>
416:
1.209 wvdputte 417: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
418: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 419: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 420: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
421: <p>
1.195 deraadt 422:
1.202 jason 423: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 424: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 425: Conference</a></strong>,
426: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 427: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
428: <ul>
1.216 jose 429: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 430: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 431: Angelos D. Keromytis,
432: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 433: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 434: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
435: </ul>
436: <p>
437:
1.201 deraadt 438: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 439: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 440: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
441: session.
442: <p>
443:
1.216 jose 444: <li><strong>
445: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
446: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 447: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
448: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
449: <p>
450:
1.216 jose 451: <li><strong>
452: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
453: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 454: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 455: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 456: <p>
457:
1.216 jose 458: <li><strong>
459: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
460: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 461: 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 462: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 463: <p>
464:
1.216 jose 465: <li><strong>
466: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
467: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 468: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
469: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 470: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
471: user groups.
472: <p>
473:
1.236 jose 474: <li><strong>
475: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 476: Group</a></strong>,
477: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 478: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
479: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
480: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
481: <p>
482:
1.216 jose 483: <li><strong>
484: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
485: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 486: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 487: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 488: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
489: <p>
490:
1.216 jose 491: <li><strong>
492: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
493: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 494: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
495: CD sets and Tshirts.
496: <p>
1.236 jose 497: </ul>
1.185 miod 498:
1.161 millert 499: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 500:
501: <ul>
502: <li><strong>
503: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 504: Congress</a></strong>,
505: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 506: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
507: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 508: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
509: <p>
1.177 jason 510:
1.216 jose 511: <li><strong>
512: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
513: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 514: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 515: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 516: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
517: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 518: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 519: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
520: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 521: <p>
1.178 pb 522:
1.216 jose 523: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 524: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 525: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
526: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 527: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
528: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
529: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
530: <p>
531:
1.216 jose 532: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 533: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
534: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
535: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
536: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
537: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
538: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
539: <p>
540:
541: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 542: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
543: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 544: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
545: Niels Provos presented his
546: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
547: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 548: <p>
1.172 miod 549:
1.216 jose 550: <li><strong>
551: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
552: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 553: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
554: <p>
555:
1.216 jose 556: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 557: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 558: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
559: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 560: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
561: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 562: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 563: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 564: <p>
1.168 miod 565:
1.216 jose 566: <li><strong>
567: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
568: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 569: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 570: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
571: are available.
1.161 millert 572: <p>
573:
1.216 jose 574: <li><strong>
575: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
576: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 577: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
578: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
579: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
580: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
581: <p>
582:
1.216 jose 583: <li><strong>
584: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
585: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 586: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
587: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
588: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
589: <p>
1.236 jose 590: </ul>
1.164 millert 591:
1.152 jakob 592: <h3>2001</h3>
593:
1.236 jose 594: <ul>
1.216 jose 595: <li><strong>
596: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
597: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 598: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
599: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
600: <p>
601:
1.216 jose 602: <li><strong>
603: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
604: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 605: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
606: <p>
607:
1.158 deraadt 608: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 609: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 610: 2001</a></strong>,
611: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 612: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
613: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
614: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
615: <p>
616:
1.216 jose 617: <li><strong>
618: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
619: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 620: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
621: <p>
622:
1.201 deraadt 623: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 624: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 625: Jakob and Itojun were there.
626: <p>
1.158 deraadt 627:
1.150 wvdputte 628: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 629: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 630: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 631: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
632: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
633: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 634: <p>
1.137 aaron 635:
636: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 637: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 638: Conference</a></strong>,
639: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 640: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
641: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
642: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
643: <p>
644:
645: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 646: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 647: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 648: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
649: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
650: <p>
651:
652: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 653: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 654: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
655: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 656: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
657: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
658: <p>
659:
660: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 661: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 662: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
663: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 664: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
665: <p>
666:
667: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 668: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 669: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 670: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 671: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
672: security community.
673: <p>
674:
675: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 676: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 677: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
678: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 679: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
680: <p>
681:
682: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 683: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 684: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 685: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 686: <p>
1.236 jose 687: </ul>
1.137 aaron 688:
1.132 louis 689: <h3>2000</h3>
690:
1.236 jose 691: <ul>
1.132 louis 692: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 693: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 694: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
695: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 696: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
697: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
698: <p>
699:
700: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 701: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 702: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 703: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
704: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
705: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
706: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 707: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 708: <p>
709:
710: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 711: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 712: 2000</a></strong>,
713: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 714: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 715: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 716: <p>
1.4 millert 717:
1.132 louis 718: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 719: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 720: Summit</a></strong>,
721: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 722: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 723: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
724: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
725:
726: <ul>
1.236 jose 727: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 728: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 729: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
730: </ul>
1.4 millert 731: <p>
1.132 louis 732:
1.7 deraadt 733: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 734: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 735: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 736: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
737: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 738: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 739: mind (drinks afterwards).
740: <p>
741:
1.216 jose 742: <li><strong>
743: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
744: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 745: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
746: questions.
1.32 deraadt 747: <p>
1.1 deraadt 748:
1.132 louis 749: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 750: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 751: Revolution</a></strong>,
752: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 753: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
754: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 755: <p>
756:
1.132 louis 757: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 758: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
759: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 760: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
761: <ul>
1.236 jose 762: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 763: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 764: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 765: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
766: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
767: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 768: <p>
1.132 louis 769:
1.10 provos 770: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 771: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 772: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 773: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 774: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
775: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
776: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
777: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
778: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
779: <br>
780: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
781: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
782: <p>
1.32 deraadt 783:
1.132 louis 784: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 785: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 786: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
787: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
788: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 789: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
790: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
791: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
792: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
793: and spoke about
794: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 795: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 796: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 797: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 798: <p>
1.132 louis 799:
1.6 deraadt 800: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 801: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 802: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 803: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
804: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
805: <br>
806: Christian Weisgerber gave a
807: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
808: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 809: <p>
1.1 deraadt 810:
1.216 jose 811: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 812: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 813: Conference.</a></strong>,
814: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 815: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
816: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
817: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
818: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
819: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 820: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 821: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
822: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
823: <ul>
824:
825: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
826: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 827: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 828: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
829: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
830:
831: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
832: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 833: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 834: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
835: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 836:
1.132 louis 837: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
838: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 839: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 840: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 841: <p>
842:
1.132 louis 843: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 844: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 845: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
846: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 847: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
848: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
849: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 850: <p>
1.2 deraadt 851:
1.132 louis 852: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 853: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
854: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 855: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
856: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
857: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
858: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
859: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 860: <p>
1.11 jkatz 861:
1.17 deraadt 862: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 863: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
864: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 865: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
866: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
867: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
868: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
869: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 870: <p>
1.17 deraadt 871:
1.23 niklas 872: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 873: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
874: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 875: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
876: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
877: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 878: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 879: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
880: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
881: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 882: <p>
1.25 deraadt 883:
1.132 louis 884: <li><strong>
885: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 886: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
887: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 888: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 889: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
890: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
891: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 892: <p>
1.23 niklas 893:
1.31 deraadt 894: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 895: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 896: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
897: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 898: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 899: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
900: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
901: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
902: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 903: <p>
1.31 deraadt 904:
1.201 deraadt 905: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 906: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 907: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
908: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
909: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
910: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 911: <p>
1.236 jose 912: </ul>
1.33 niklas 913:
1.132 louis 914: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 915:
1.236 jose 916: <ul>
1.216 jose 917: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
918: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 919: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 920: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 921: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
922: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
923: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 924: <p>
925:
1.216 jose 926: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 927: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 928: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
929: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 930: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
931: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
932: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
933: There were many other OpenBSD
934: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
935: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
936:
937: <ul>
938: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 939: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 940: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 941: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
942: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 943: </ul>
944: <p>
945:
946: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 947: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 948: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 949: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
950: <p>
951:
952: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 953: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 954: Software '99</a></strong>,
955: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 956: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 957: <a
958: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 959: <p>
960:
961: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 962: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 963: 1999</a></strong>,
964: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 965: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
966: developers from the east coast attended as well.
967: <p>
968:
1.236 jose 969: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 970: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
971: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 972: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
973: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 974: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
975: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
976: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
977: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
978: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
979: conference in Stockholm.
980: <p>
981:
982: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 983: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 984: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 985: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
986: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
987: coordinated.
988: <p>
989:
990: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 991: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 992: Security</a></strong>,
993: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 994: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
995: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
996: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
997: significant security roles.
998: <p>
999:
1000: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1001: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1002: meeting</a></strong>,
1003: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1004: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1005: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1006: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1007: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1008: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1009: <p>
1.45 jason 1010:
1.132 louis 1011: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1012: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1013: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1014: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1015: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1016: <p>
1.132 louis 1017:
1.236 jose 1018: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1019: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1020: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1021: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1022: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1023: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1024: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1025: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1026: June.)
1.132 louis 1027: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1028: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1029: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1030:
1.46 deraadt 1031: <ul>
1.236 jose 1032: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 1033: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1034: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1035: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1036: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1037: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1038: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1039: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1040: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1041: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1042: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1043: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1044: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1045: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1046: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1047: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1048: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1049: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1050: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1051: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1052: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1053: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1054: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1055: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1056: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1057: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1058: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1059:
1.51 deraadt 1060: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1061: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1062: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1063: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1064: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1065: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1066: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1067: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1068: <p>
1069:
1.53 jakob 1070: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1071: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1072: meeting</a></strong>,
1073: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1074: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1075: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1076: <p>
1077:
1.132 louis 1078: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1079: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1080: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1081: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1082: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1083: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1084: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1085: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1086: <p>
1.236 jose 1087: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1088:
1.132 louis 1089: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1090:
1.236 jose 1091: <ul>
1.132 louis 1092: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1093: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1094: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1095: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1096: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 1097: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1098: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1099: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1100: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1101: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1102: <p>
1103:
1.236 jose 1104: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1105: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1106: Conference</a></strong>,
1107: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1108: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1109: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1110: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1111: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1112: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1113: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1114: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1115: <br>
1116: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1117: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1118: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1119: <p>
1120:
1.73 deraadt 1121: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1122: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1123: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1124: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1125: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1126: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1127: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1128: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1129: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1130:
1.236 jose 1131: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1132: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1133: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1134: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1135: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1136: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1137: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1138: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1139:
1.80 deraadt 1140: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1141: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1142: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1143: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1144: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1145: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1146: <p>
1147:
1.93 louis 1148: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1149: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1150: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1151: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1152: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1153: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1154: <p>
1155:
1.216 jose 1156: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1157: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1158: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1159: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1160: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1161: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1162: <p>
1163:
1.236 jose 1164: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1165: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1166: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1167: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1168: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1169: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1170: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1171: <br>
1172: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1173: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1174: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1175: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1176: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1177:
1.236 jose 1178: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1179: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1180: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1181: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1182: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1183: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1184: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1185: <p>
1186:
1.236 jose 1187: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1188: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1189: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1190: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1191: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1192: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1193: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1194: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1195: <br>
1196: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1197: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1198: <p>
1199:
1.105 wvdputte 1200: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1201: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1202: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1203: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1204: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1205: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1206: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1207: <br>
1.132 louis 1208: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1209: <p>
1.236 jose 1210: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1211:
1.132 louis 1212: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1213:
1.236 jose 1214: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1215: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1216: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1217: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1218: Niels held a
1219: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1220: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1221: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1222: <p>
1.132 louis 1223:
1.236 jose 1224: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1225: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1226: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1227: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1228: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1229: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1230:
1.236 jose 1231: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1232: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1233: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1234: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1235: <br>
1236: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1237: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1238: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1239: <p>
1240:
1.125 deraadt 1241: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1242: <a
1243: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1244: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1245: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1246: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1247: </ul>
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