Annotation of www/events.html, Revision 1.288
1.1 deraadt 1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML Strict//EN">
2: <html>
3: <head>
4: <title>OpenBSD events</title>
1.236 jose 5: <link rev=made href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">
1.1 deraadt 6: <meta name="resource-type" content="document">
7: <meta name="distribution" content="global">
1.233 jose 8: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1996-2004 by OpenBSD.">
1.1 deraadt 9: </head>
10:
1.241 david 11: <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#23238E">
1.1 deraadt 12:
1.167 jsyn 13: <a href="index.html"><img alt="[OpenBSD]" height="30" width="141" src="images/smalltitle.gif" border="0"></a>
1.1 deraadt 14: <p>
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.
1.8 deraadt 20:
1.78 louis 21: <hr>
22:
23: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 24:
1.287 henning 25: <h3>2005</h3>
1.236 jose 26:
27: <ul>
1.288 ! reyk 28: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
! 29: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
! 30: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
! 31: Reyk Flöter will talk about the latest wireless support in
! 32: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
! 33: <p>
1.236 jose 34: </ul>
1.152 jakob 35: <hr>
36:
1.236 jose 37: <!-- STYLE NOTES:
1.132 louis 38: Place past events in most-recent-first order.
39: Make sure you change the tense from future to past when you move an item.
1.142 ian 40: Use <br> tags instead of <p> to avoid gaps within an item.
1.216 jose 41:
42: Tagline formatting:
43: <li><strong>
44: <a href=LINK>EVENT NAME</a></strong>,
45: Month Day - Day, Year, Location<br>
46:
47: Use a 3 letter abbreviation for the month. Name anchors go on the line
48: with the <li> tag.
1.132 louis 49: -->
1.152 jakob 50: <h2>Past events:</h2>
51:
1.240 espie 52: <h3>2004</h3>
53:
54: <ul>
1.287 henning 55: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
56: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
57: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
58: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
59: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
60: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
61: Uwe Stuehler, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
62: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
63: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
64: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
65: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
66: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
67: This installation was a very successful test of the new
68: <a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
69: driver.
70: <p>
1.248 deraadt 71:
1.286 kevlo 72: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
73: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
74: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
75: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
76: <p>
77:
1.285 deraadt 78: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
79: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
80: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
81: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
82: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
83: <p>
84:
1.283 saad 85: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
86: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
87: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
88: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
89: meeting of the
90: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
91: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 92: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 93: <p>
94:
1.282 henning 95: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
96: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
97: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
98: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
99: two days, on bgpd
100: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
101: ntpd
102: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
103: and signal handlers
104: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
105: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
106: <p>
107:
1.275 deraadt 108: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
109: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
110: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
111: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
112: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
113: Room B-02 of the
114: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
115: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
116: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
117: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
118: The talk was also given the following day at the
119: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
120: <p>
121:
1.271 henning 122: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
123: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
124: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 125: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
126: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 127: Henning gave a talk
1.272 henning 128: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
129: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 130: <p>
131:
132: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
133: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
134: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 135: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
136: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 137: <p>
138:
1.276 deraadt 139: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 140: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
141: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
142: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
143: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
144: <p>
145:
146: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 147: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
148: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
149: <p>
150:
151: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
152: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
153: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
154: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
155: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
156: <p>
157:
1.268 krw 158: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
159: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
160: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
161: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
162: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
163: <p>
164:
165: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
166: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
167: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
168: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
169: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
170: <p>
171:
172: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
173: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
174: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
175: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
176: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
177: <p>
178:
1.265 wvdputte 179: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
180: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
181: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
182: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
183: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
184: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
185: event."
186: <br>
187: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
188: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
189: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
190: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
191: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
192: <br>
193: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
194: <p>
195:
1.262 henning 196: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
197: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
198: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
199: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
200: Henning's slides from his talks about
201: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
202: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
203: are available.
204: <p>
205:
1.261 deraadt 206: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 207: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 208: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
209: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
210: newly extended version of the
211: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
212: For more information, see this
213: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
214: ComputerWorld article</a>.
215: <p>
216:
217:
1.257 saad 218: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
219: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
220: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
221: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
222: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
223: <p>
224:
225: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
226: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
227: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
228: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
229: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
230: <p>
231:
1.256 mickey 232: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
233: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
234: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
235: session.
236: <p>
237:
1.254 xsa 238: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 239: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 240: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
241: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
242: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
243: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
244: a basic talk about pf.
245: <p>
246:
1.248 deraadt 247: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
248: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
249: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
250: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
251: about newer features in pf, focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP
252: and pfsync. Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
253: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
254: <p>
255:
1.247 canacar 256: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
257: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
258: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
259: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
260: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
261: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
262: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
263: projects were discussed.<br>
264: You can view the
1.281 canacar 265: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 266: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 267: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 268: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
269: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
270: <p>
271:
1.242 henning 272: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
273: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
274: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 275: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
276: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
277: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
278: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
279: and systrace
1.263 saad 280: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 281: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
282: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
283: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 284: <p>
285:
1.240 espie 286: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
287: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
288: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
289: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
290: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
291: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
292: <p>
293:
294: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
295: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
296: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
297: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
298: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
299: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
300: <p>
301: </ul>
302:
1.188 henning 303: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 304:
305: <ul>
1.232 jose 306: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
307: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
308: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
309: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
310: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 311: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 312: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 313: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 314: <p>
1.232 jose 315:
1.228 jose 316: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 317: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 318: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
319: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 320: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
321: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 322: with OpenBSD PF.
323: <p>
324:
325: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
326: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
327: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
328: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
329: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 330: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
331: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
332: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
333: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 334: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 335: slides in PDF format </a>
336: (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 337: <p>
338:
1.227 jose 339: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
340: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
341: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
342: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
346: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
347: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 348: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 349: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 350: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
351: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 352: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 353: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 354: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 355: in Internet worm defenses.
356: <p>
357:
1.224 miod 358: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
359: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
360: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
361: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
362: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
363: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
364: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
365: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
366: OpenBSD.
367: <p>
368:
369: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
370: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
371: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
372: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
373: <p>
374:
375: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
376: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
377: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
378: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
379: <p>
380:
1.219 jose 381: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
382: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
383: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 384: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 385: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
386: <p>
387:
1.218 jose 388: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
389: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
390: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 391: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 392: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
393: <p>
394:
1.214 henning 395: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
396: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 397: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 398: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
399: <p>
400:
1.213 jose 401: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
402: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 403: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 404: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 405: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
406: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
407: <p>
408:
1.211 jose 409: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
410: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 411: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 412: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
413: <p>
414:
415: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
416: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 417: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 418: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 419: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
420: <p>
421:
1.209 wvdputte 422: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
423: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 424: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 425: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
426: <p>
1.195 deraadt 427:
1.202 jason 428: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 429: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 430: Conference</a></strong>,
431: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 432: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
433: <ul>
1.216 jose 434: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 435: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 436: Angelos D. Keromytis,
437: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 438: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 439: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
440: </ul>
441: <p>
442:
1.201 deraadt 443: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 444: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 445: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
446: session.
447: <p>
448:
1.216 jose 449: <li><strong>
450: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
451: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 452: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
453: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
454: <p>
455:
1.216 jose 456: <li><strong>
457: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
458: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 459: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 460: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 461: <p>
462:
1.216 jose 463: <li><strong>
464: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
465: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 466: 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 467: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 468: <p>
469:
1.216 jose 470: <li><strong>
471: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
472: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 473: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
474: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 475: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
476: user groups.
477: <p>
478:
1.236 jose 479: <li><strong>
480: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 481: Group</a></strong>,
482: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 483: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
484: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
485: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
486: <p>
487:
1.216 jose 488: <li><strong>
489: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
490: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 491: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 492: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 493: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
494: <p>
495:
1.216 jose 496: <li><strong>
497: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
498: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 499: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
500: CD sets and Tshirts.
501: <p>
1.236 jose 502: </ul>
1.185 miod 503:
1.161 millert 504: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 505:
506: <ul>
507: <li><strong>
508: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 509: Congress</a></strong>,
510: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 511: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
512: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 513: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
514: <p>
1.177 jason 515:
1.216 jose 516: <li><strong>
517: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
518: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 519: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 520: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 521: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
522: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 523: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 524: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
525: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 526: <p>
1.178 pb 527:
1.216 jose 528: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 529: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 530: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
531: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 532: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
533: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
534: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
535: <p>
536:
1.216 jose 537: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 538: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
539: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
540: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
541: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
542: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
543: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
544: <p>
545:
546: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 547: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
548: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 549: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
550: Niels Provos presented his
551: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
552: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 553: <p>
1.172 miod 554:
1.216 jose 555: <li><strong>
556: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
557: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 558: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
559: <p>
560:
1.216 jose 561: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 562: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 563: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
564: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 565: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
566: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 567: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 568: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 569: <p>
1.168 miod 570:
1.216 jose 571: <li><strong>
572: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
573: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 574: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 575: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
576: are available.
1.161 millert 577: <p>
578:
1.216 jose 579: <li><strong>
580: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
581: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 582: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
583: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
584: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
585: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
586: <p>
587:
1.216 jose 588: <li><strong>
589: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
590: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 591: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
592: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
593: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
594: <p>
1.236 jose 595: </ul>
1.164 millert 596:
1.152 jakob 597: <h3>2001</h3>
598:
1.236 jose 599: <ul>
1.216 jose 600: <li><strong>
601: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
602: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 603: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
604: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
605: <p>
606:
1.216 jose 607: <li><strong>
608: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
609: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 610: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
611: <p>
612:
1.158 deraadt 613: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 614: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 615: 2001</a></strong>,
616: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 617: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
618: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
619: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
620: <p>
621:
1.216 jose 622: <li><strong>
623: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
624: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 625: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
626: <p>
627:
1.201 deraadt 628: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 629: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 630: Jakob and Itojun were there.
631: <p>
1.158 deraadt 632:
1.150 wvdputte 633: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 634: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 635: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 636: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
637: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
638: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 639: <p>
1.137 aaron 640:
641: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 642: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 643: Conference</a></strong>,
644: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 645: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
646: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
647: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
648: <p>
649:
650: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 651: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 652: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 653: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
654: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
655: <p>
656:
657: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 658: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 659: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
660: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 661: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
662: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
663: <p>
664:
665: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 666: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 667: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
668: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 669: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
670: <p>
671:
672: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 673: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 674: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 675: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 676: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
677: security community.
678: <p>
679:
680: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 681: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 682: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
683: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 684: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
685: <p>
686:
687: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 688: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 689: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 690: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 691: <p>
1.236 jose 692: </ul>
1.137 aaron 693:
1.132 louis 694: <h3>2000</h3>
695:
1.236 jose 696: <ul>
1.132 louis 697: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 698: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 699: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
700: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 701: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
702: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
703: <p>
704:
705: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 706: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 707: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 708: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
709: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
710: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
711: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 712: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 713: <p>
714:
715: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 716: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 717: 2000</a></strong>,
718: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 719: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 720: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 721: <p>
1.4 millert 722:
1.132 louis 723: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 724: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 725: Summit</a></strong>,
726: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 727: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 728: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
729: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
730:
731: <ul>
1.236 jose 732: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 733: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 734: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
735: </ul>
1.4 millert 736: <p>
1.132 louis 737:
1.7 deraadt 738: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 739: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 740: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 741: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
742: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 743: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 744: mind (drinks afterwards).
745: <p>
746:
1.216 jose 747: <li><strong>
748: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
749: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 750: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
751: questions.
1.32 deraadt 752: <p>
1.1 deraadt 753:
1.132 louis 754: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 755: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 756: Revolution</a></strong>,
757: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 758: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
759: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 760: <p>
761:
1.132 louis 762: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 763: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
764: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 765: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
766: <ul>
1.236 jose 767: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 768: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 769: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 770: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
771: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
772: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 773: <p>
1.132 louis 774:
1.10 provos 775: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 776: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 777: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 778: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 779: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
780: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
781: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
782: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
783: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
784: <br>
785: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
786: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
787: <p>
1.32 deraadt 788:
1.132 louis 789: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 790: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 791: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
792: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
793: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 794: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
795: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
796: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
797: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
798: and spoke about
799: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 800: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 801: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 802: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 803: <p>
1.132 louis 804:
1.6 deraadt 805: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 806: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 807: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 808: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
809: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
810: <br>
811: Christian Weisgerber gave a
812: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
813: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 814: <p>
1.1 deraadt 815:
1.216 jose 816: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 817: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 818: Conference.</a></strong>,
819: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 820: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
821: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
822: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
823: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
824: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 825: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 826: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
827: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
828: <ul>
829:
830: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
831: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 832: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 833: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
834: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
835:
836: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
837: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 838: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 839: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
840: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 841:
1.132 louis 842: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
843: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 844: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 845: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 846: <p>
847:
1.132 louis 848: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 849: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 850: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
851: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 852: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
853: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
854: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 855: <p>
1.2 deraadt 856:
1.132 louis 857: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 858: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
859: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 860: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
861: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
862: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
863: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
864: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 865: <p>
1.11 jkatz 866:
1.17 deraadt 867: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 868: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
869: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 870: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
871: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
872: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
873: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
874: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 875: <p>
1.17 deraadt 876:
1.23 niklas 877: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 878: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
879: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 880: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
881: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
882: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 883: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 884: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
885: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
886: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 887: <p>
1.25 deraadt 888:
1.132 louis 889: <li><strong>
890: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 891: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
892: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 893: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 894: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
895: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
896: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 897: <p>
1.23 niklas 898:
1.31 deraadt 899: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 900: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 901: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
902: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 903: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 904: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
905: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
906: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
907: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 908: <p>
1.31 deraadt 909:
1.201 deraadt 910: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 911: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 912: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
913: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
914: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
915: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 916: <p>
1.236 jose 917: </ul>
1.33 niklas 918:
1.132 louis 919: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 920:
1.236 jose 921: <ul>
1.216 jose 922: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
923: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 924: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 925: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 926: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
927: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
928: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 929: <p>
930:
1.216 jose 931: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 932: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 933: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
934: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 935: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
936: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
937: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
938: There were many other OpenBSD
939: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
940: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
941:
942: <ul>
943: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 944: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 945: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 946: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
947: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 948: </ul>
949: <p>
950:
951: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 952: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 953: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 954: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
955: <p>
956:
957: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 958: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 959: Software '99</a></strong>,
960: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 961: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 962: <a
963: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 964: <p>
965:
966: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 967: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 968: 1999</a></strong>,
969: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 970: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
971: developers from the east coast attended as well.
972: <p>
973:
1.236 jose 974: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 975: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
976: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 977: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
978: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 979: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
980: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
981: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
982: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
983: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
984: conference in Stockholm.
985: <p>
986:
987: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 988: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 989: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 990: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
991: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
992: coordinated.
993: <p>
994:
995: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 996: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 997: Security</a></strong>,
998: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 999: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1000: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1001: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1002: significant security roles.
1003: <p>
1004:
1005: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1006: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1007: meeting</a></strong>,
1008: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1009: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1010: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1011: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1012: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1013: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1014: <p>
1.45 jason 1015:
1.132 louis 1016: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1017: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1018: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1019: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1020: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1021: <p>
1.132 louis 1022:
1.236 jose 1023: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1024: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1025: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1026: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1027: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1028: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1029: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1030: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1031: June.)
1.132 louis 1032: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1033: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1034: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1035:
1.46 deraadt 1036: <ul>
1.236 jose 1037: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 1038: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1039: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1040: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1041: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1042: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1043: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1044: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1045: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1046: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1047: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1048: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1049: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1050: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1051: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1052: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1053: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1054: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1055: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1056: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1057: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1058: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1059: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1060: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1061: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1062: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1063: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1064:
1.51 deraadt 1065: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1066: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1067: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1068: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1069: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1070: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1071: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1072: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1073: <p>
1074:
1.53 jakob 1075: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1076: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1077: meeting</a></strong>,
1078: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1079: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1080: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1081: <p>
1082:
1.132 louis 1083: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1084: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1085: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1086: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1087: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1088: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1089: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1090: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1091: <p>
1.236 jose 1092: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1093:
1.132 louis 1094: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1095:
1.236 jose 1096: <ul>
1.132 louis 1097: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1098: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1099: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1100: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1101: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 1102: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1103: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1104: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1105: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1106: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1107: <p>
1108:
1.236 jose 1109: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1110: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1111: Conference</a></strong>,
1112: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1113: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1114: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1115: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1116: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1117: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1118: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1119: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1120: <br>
1121: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1122: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1123: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1124: <p>
1125:
1.73 deraadt 1126: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1127: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1128: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1129: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1130: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1131: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1132: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1133: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1134: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1135:
1.236 jose 1136: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1137: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1138: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1139: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1140: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1141: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1142: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1143: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1144:
1.80 deraadt 1145: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1146: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1147: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1148: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1149: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1150: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1151: <p>
1152:
1.93 louis 1153: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1154: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1155: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1156: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1157: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1158: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1159: <p>
1160:
1.216 jose 1161: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1162: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1163: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1164: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1165: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1166: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1167: <p>
1168:
1.236 jose 1169: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1170: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1171: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1172: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1173: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1174: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1175: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1176: <br>
1177: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1178: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1179: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1180: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1181: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1182:
1.236 jose 1183: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1184: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1185: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1186: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1187: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1188: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1189: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1190: <p>
1191:
1.236 jose 1192: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1193: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1194: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1195: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1196: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1197: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1198: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1199: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1200: <br>
1201: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1202: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1203: <p>
1204:
1.105 wvdputte 1205: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1206: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1207: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1208: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1209: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1210: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1211: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1212: <br>
1.132 louis 1213: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1214: <p>
1.236 jose 1215: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1216:
1.132 louis 1217: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1218:
1.236 jose 1219: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1220: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1221: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1222: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1223: Niels held a
1224: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1225: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1226: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1227: <p>
1.132 louis 1228:
1.236 jose 1229: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1230: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1231: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1232: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1233: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1234: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1235:
1.236 jose 1236: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1237: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1238: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1239: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1240: <br>
1241: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1242: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1243: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1244: <p>
1245:
1.125 deraadt 1246: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1247: <a
1248: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1249: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1250: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1251: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1252: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1253:
1.1 deraadt 1254:
1255: <hr>
1.236 jose 1256: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt="OpenBSD"></a>
1257: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.288 ! reyk 1258: <br><small>$OpenBSD: events.html,v 1.287 2005/01/01 17:49:12 henning Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 1259:
1260: </body>
1261: </html>