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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 &quot;Birds Of a Feather&quot; (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 Fl&ouml;ter 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>
1.289     henning    34: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
                     35: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
                     36: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
                     37: Henning Brauer will speak on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1.292     saad       38: <p>
                     39: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
                     40: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
                     41: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                     42: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth will be present. If you want to help, please
                     43: send an email to
                     44: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1.295   ! mcbride    45: <p>
        !            46: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
        !            47: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
        !            48: Early March (dates to be confirmed), 2005, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
        !            49: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride will be giving a series of
        !            50: talks. Topics include exploit mitigation techniques, OpenBGPD, and pf.
1.236     jose       51: </ul>
1.152     jakob      52: <hr>
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1.152     jakob      67: <h2>Past events:</h2>
                     68:
1.240     espie      69: <h3>2004</h3>
                     70:
                     71: <ul>
1.293     saad       72: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
                     73: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
                     74: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
                     75: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
                     76: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
                     77: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294     saad       78: french translation team.<br>
                     79: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
                     80: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
                     81: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
                     82: available.<br>
                     83: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293     saad       84: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
                     85: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
                     86: <p>
                     87:
1.287     henning    88: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
                     89: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
                     90: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
                     91: &quot;The Usual Suspects&quot; were there and ran the BSD corner, including
                     92: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
                     93: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
                     94: Uwe Stuehler, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
                     95: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
                     96: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
                     97: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
                     98: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
                     99: work done by Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Tim Kornau and others.
                    100: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290     henning   101: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287     henning   102: driver.
                    103: <p>
1.248     deraadt   104:
1.286     kevlo     105: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
                    106: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
                    107: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
                    108: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
                    109: <p>
                    110:
1.285     deraadt   111: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
                    112: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
                    113: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
                    114: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
                    115: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                    116: <p>
                    117:
1.283     saad      118: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
                    119: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
                    120: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                    121: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
                    122: meeting of the
                    123: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
                    124: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284     xsa       125: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283     saad      126: <p>
                    127:
1.282     henning   128: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
                    129: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
                    130: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
                    131: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
                    132: two days, on bgpd
                    133: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
                    134: ntpd
                    135: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
                    136: and signal handlers
                    137: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
                    138: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
                    139: <p>
                    140:
1.275     deraadt   141: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
                    142: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
                    143: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
                    144: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
                    145: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
                    146: Room B-02 of the
                    147: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
                    148: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
                    149: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
                    150: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
                    151: The talk was also given the following day at the
                    152: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
                    153: <p>
                    154:
1.271     henning   155: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
                    156: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
                    157: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning   158: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    159: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning   160: Henning gave a talk
1.272     henning   161: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
                    162: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271     henning   163: <p>
                    164:
                    165: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
                    166: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
                    167: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning   168: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    169: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning   170: <p>
                    171:
1.276     deraadt   172: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270     deraadt   173: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
                    174: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
                    175: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
                    176: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
                    177: <p>
                    178:
                    179: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269     krw       180: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
                    181: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
                    182: <p>
                    183:
                    184: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
                    185: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
                    186: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
                    187: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    188: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    189: <p>
                    190:
1.268     krw       191: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
                    192: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
                    193: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
                    194: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    195: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    196: <p>
                    197:
                    198: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
                    199: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
                    200: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
                    201: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
                    202: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
                    203: <p>
                    204:
                    205: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
                    206: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
                    207: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
                    208: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    209: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    210: <p>
                    211:
1.265     wvdputte  212: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
                    213: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
                    214: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
                    215: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
                    216: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
                    217: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
                    218: event."
                    219: <br>
                    220: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
                    221: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
                    222: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
                    223: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
                    224: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
                    225: <br>
                    226: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
                    227: <p>
                    228:
1.262     henning   229: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
                    230: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
                    231: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
                    232: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
                    233: Henning's slides from his talks about
                    234: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
                    235: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
                    236: are available.
                    237: <p>
                    238:
1.261     deraadt   239: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266     jolan     240: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261     deraadt   241: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                    242: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
                    243: newly extended version of the
                    244: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
                    245: For more information, see this
                    246: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
                    247: ComputerWorld article</a>.
                    248: <p>
                    249:
                    250:
1.257     saad      251: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
                    252: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
                    253: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
                    254: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    255: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                    256: <p>
                    257:
                    258: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
                    259: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
                    260: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
                    261: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    262: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                    263: <p>
                    264:
1.256     mickey    265: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
                    266: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
                    267: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
                    268: session.
                    269: <p>
                    270:
1.254     xsa       271: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255     xsa       272: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254     xsa       273: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                    274: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
                    275: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
                    276: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
                    277: a basic talk about pf.
                    278: <p>
                    279:
1.248     deraadt   280: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
                    281: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
                    282: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                    283: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa.  Ryan McBride gave a talk
                    284: about newer features in pf, focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP
                    285: and pfsync.  Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
                    286: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                    287: <p>
                    288:
1.247     canacar   289: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
                    290: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
                    291: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
                    292: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
                    293: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
                    294: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &amp;
                    295: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
                    296: projects were discussed.<br>
                    297: You can view the
1.281     canacar   298: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247     canacar   299: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281     canacar   300: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247     canacar   301: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
                    302: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
                    303: <p>
                    304:
1.242     henning   305: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
                    306: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
                    307: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243     henning   308: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
                    309: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
                    310: Philipp B&uuml;hler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
                    311: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave &quot;lightning talks&quot; about Soekris
                    312: and systrace
1.263     saad      313: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243     henning   314: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
                    315: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
                    316: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242     henning   317: <p>
                    318:
1.240     espie     319: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
                    320: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
                    321: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                    322: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
                    323: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
                    324: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    325: <p>
                    326:
                    327: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
                    328: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
                    329: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
                    330: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
                    331: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
                    332: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
                    333: <p>
                    334: </ul>
                    335:
1.188     henning   336: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236     jose      337:
                    338: <ul>
1.232     jose      339: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
                    340: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
                    341: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                    342: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
                    343: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236     jose      344: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260     saad      345: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232     jose      346: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236     jose      347: <p>
1.232     jose      348:
1.228     jose      349: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236     jose      350: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228     jose      351: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
                    352: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236     jose      353: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
                    354: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228     jose      355: with OpenBSD PF.
                    356: <p>
                    357:
                    358: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
                    359: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
                    360: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
                    361: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
                    362: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236     jose      363: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
                    364: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
                    365: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
                    366: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281     canacar   367: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236     jose      368: slides in PDF format </a>
                    369: (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      370: <p>
                    371:
1.227     jose      372: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
                    373: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
                    374: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
                    375: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    376: <p>
                    377:
                    378: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
                    379: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
                    380: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236     jose      381: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227     jose      382: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236     jose      383: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
                    384: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227     jose      385: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236     jose      386: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241     david     387: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227     jose      388: in Internet worm defenses.
                    389: <p>
                    390:
1.224     miod      391: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
                    392: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>&egrave;mes</sup> Journ&eacute;es du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
                    393: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
                    394: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
                    395: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
                    396: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
                    397: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
                    398: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
                    399: OpenBSD.
                    400: <p>
                    401:
                    402: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
                    403: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbr&uuml;cken 2003</a></strong>,
                    404: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbr&uuml;cken, Germany.<br>
                    405: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
                    406: <p>
                    407:
                    408: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
                    409: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
                    410: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
                    411: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
                    412: <p>
                    413:
1.219     jose      414: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
                    415: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
                    416: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236     jose      417: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219     jose      418: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
                    419: <p>
                    420:
1.218     jose      421: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
                    422: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
                    423: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236     jose      424: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218     jose      425: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
                    426: <p>
                    427:
1.214     henning   428: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
                    429: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      430: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214     henning   431: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
                    432: <p>
                    433:
1.213     jose      434: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
                    435: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      436: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236     jose      437: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213     jose      438: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
                    439: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
                    440: <p>
                    441:
1.211     jose      442: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
                    443: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      444: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211     jose      445: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
                    446: <p>
                    447:
                    448: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
                    449: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      450: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212     matthieu  451: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211     jose      452: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                    453: <p>
                    454:
1.209     wvdputte  455: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
                    456: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      457: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209     wvdputte  458: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                    459: <p>
1.195     deraadt   460:
1.202     jason     461: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236     jose      462: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose      463: Conference</a></strong>,
                    464: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202     jason     465: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                    466: <ul>
1.216     jose      467: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202     jason     468:     <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236     jose      469:     Angelos D. Keromytis,
                    470:     Jason L. Wright, and
1.205     deraadt   471:     Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202     jason     472:     <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
                    473: </ul>
                    474: <p>
                    475:
1.201     deraadt   476: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216     jose      477: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201     deraadt   478: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
                    479: session.
                    480: <p>
                    481:
1.216     jose      482: <li><strong>
                    483: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
                    484: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203     jason     485: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
                    486: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
                    487: <p>
                    488:
1.216     jose      489: <li><strong>
                    490: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
                    491: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195     deraadt   492: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196     matthieu  493: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195     deraadt   494: <p>
                    495:
1.216     jose      496: <li><strong>
                    497: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
                    498: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236     jose      499: 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  500: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194     henning   501: <p>
                    502:
1.216     jose      503: <li><strong>
                    504: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
                    505: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236     jose      506: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
                    507: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191     dhartmei  508: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
                    509: user groups.
                    510: <p>
                    511:
1.236     jose      512: <li><strong>
                    513: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216     jose      514: Group</a></strong>,
                    515: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190     miod      516: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
                    517: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
                    518: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
                    519: <p>
                    520:
1.216     jose      521: <li><strong>
                    522: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
                    523: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236     jose      524: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196     matthieu  525: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187     henning   526: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
                    527: <p>
                    528:
1.216     jose      529: <li><strong>
                    530: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
                    531: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185     miod      532: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
                    533: CD sets and Tshirts.
                    534: <p>
1.236     jose      535: </ul>
1.185     miod      536:
1.161     millert   537: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236     jose      538:
                    539: <ul>
                    540: <li><strong>
                    541: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216     jose      542: Congress</a></strong>,
                    543: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236     jose      544: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
                    545: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184     wvdputte  546: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
                    547: <p>
1.177     jason     548:
1.216     jose      549: <li><strong>
                    550: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
                    551: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181     henning   552: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236     jose      553: Philipp B&uuml;hler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182     ian       554: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
                    555: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236     jose      556: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182     ian       557: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
                    558: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179     pb        559: <p>
1.178     pb        560:
1.216     jose      561: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      562: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216     jose      563: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
                    564: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177     jason     565: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
                    566: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
                    567: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
                    568: <p>
                    569:
1.216     jose      570: <li><strong>
1.264     djm       571: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
                    572: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
                    573: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
                    574: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
                    575: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
                    576: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
                    577: <p>
                    578:
                    579: <li><strong>
1.216     jose      580: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
                    581: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172     miod      582: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
                    583: Niels Provos presented his
                    584: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
                    585: system call policy management tool.
1.174     nick      586: <p>
1.172     miod      587:
1.216     jose      588: <li><strong>
                    589: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
                    590: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171     ian       591: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                    592: <p>
                    593:
1.216     jose      594: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      595: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216     jose      596: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
                    597: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236     jose      598: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
                    599: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169     horacio   600: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236     jose      601: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169     horacio   602: <p>
1.168     miod      603:
1.216     jose      604: <li><strong>
                    605: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
                    606: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161     millert   607: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162     millert   608: BSD panel discussion.  The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
                    609: are available.
1.161     millert   610: <p>
                    611:
1.216     jose      612: <li><strong>
                    613: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
                    614: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163     miod      615: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
                    616: up with others on the expo's side.  On the first day, almost all the merchandise
                    617: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
                    618: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
                    619: <p>
                    620:
1.216     jose      621: <li><strong>
                    622: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
                    623: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164     millert   624: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
                    625: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
                    626: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
                    627: <p>
1.236     jose      628: </ul>
1.164     millert   629:
1.152     jakob     630: <h3>2001</h3>
                    631:
1.236     jose      632: <ul>
1.216     jose      633: <li><strong>
                    634: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
                    635: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160     jufi      636: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
                    637: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
                    638: <p>
                    639:
1.216     jose      640: <li><strong>
                    641: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
                    642: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160     jufi      643: Angelos, Itojun &amp; Jakob were there.
                    644: <p>
                    645:
1.158     deraadt   646: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      647: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216     jose      648: 2001</a></strong>,
                    649: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158     deraadt   650: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
                    651: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
                    652: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
                    653: <p>
                    654:
1.216     jose      655: <li><strong>
                    656: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
                    657: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156     provos    658: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
                    659: <p>
                    660:
1.201     deraadt   661: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216     jose      662: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156     provos    663: Jakob and Itojun were there.
                    664: <p>
1.158     deraadt   665:
1.150     wvdputte  666: <li><strong>
1.215     nick      667: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      668: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153     jufi      669: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
                    670: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
                    671: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150     wvdputte  672: <p>
1.137     aaron     673:
                    674: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      675: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose      676: Conference</a></strong>,
                    677: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148     brian     678: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                    679: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
                    680: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
                    681: <p>
                    682:
                    683: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   684: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      685: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148     brian     686: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
                    687: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
                    688: <p>
                    689:
                    690: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      691: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216     jose      692: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
                    693: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146     krw       694: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
                    695: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
                    696: <p>
                    697:
                    698: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      699: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216     jose      700: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
                    701: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146     krw       702: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                    703: <p>
                    704:
                    705: <li><strong>
1.143     dugsong   706: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201     deraadt   707: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      708: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143     dugsong   709: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
                    710: security community.
                    711: <p>
                    712:
                    713: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      714: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216     jose      715: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
                    716: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137     aaron     717: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
                    718: <p>
                    719:
                    720: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   721: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      722: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236     jose      723: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137     aaron     724: <p>
1.236     jose      725: </ul>
1.137     aaron     726:
1.132     louis     727: <h3>2000</h3>
                    728:
1.236     jose      729: <ul>
1.132     louis     730: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      731: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216     jose      732: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
                    733: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134     jufi      734: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
                    735: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
                    736: <p>
                    737:
                    738: <li><strong>
1.215     nick      739: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      740: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133     deraadt   741: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
                    742: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
                    743: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
                    744: experts who had flown in from around the world.  Following this, Theo climbed
1.151     jsyn      745: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133     deraadt   746: <p>
                    747:
                    748: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      749: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216     jose      750: 2000</a></strong>,
                    751: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236     jose      752: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132     louis     753: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13      deraadt   754: <p>
1.4       millert   755:
1.132     louis     756: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236     jose      757: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216     jose      758: Summit</a></strong>,
                    759: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159     miod      760: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132     louis     761: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
                    762: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
                    763:
                    764: <ul>
1.236     jose      765: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215     nick      766:     <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis     767:     <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                    768: </ul>
1.4       millert   769: <p>
1.132     louis     770:
1.7       deraadt   771: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   772: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      773: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132     louis     774: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
                    775: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236     jose      776: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132     louis     777: mind (drinks afterwards).
                    778: <p>
                    779:
1.216     jose      780: <li><strong>
                    781: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
                    782: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132     louis     783: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
                    784: questions.
1.32      deraadt   785: <p>
1.1       deraadt   786:
1.132     louis     787: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236     jose      788: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216     jose      789: Revolution</a></strong>,
                    790: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133     deraadt   791: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
                    792: have changed over the last years.
1.1       deraadt   793: <p>
                    794:
1.132     louis     795: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216     jose      796: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
                    797: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132     louis     798: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                    799: <ul>
1.236     jose      800: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132     louis     801:     <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt   802:     by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis     803:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
                    804:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                    805: </ul>
1.1       deraadt   806: <p>
1.132     louis     807:
1.10      provos    808: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   809: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      810: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236     jose      811: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132     louis     812: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
                    813: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
                    814: Friday and Saturday.  Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
                    815: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
                    816: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
                    817: <br>
                    818: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
                    819: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
                    820: <p>
1.32      deraadt   821:
1.132     louis     822: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      823: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose      824: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
                    825: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
                    826: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132     louis     827: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
                    828: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
                    829: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
                    830: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
                    831: and spoke about
                    832: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241     david     833: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132     louis     834: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236     jose      835: after the security talk.
1.3       provos    836: <p>
1.132     louis     837:
1.6       deraadt   838: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   839: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      840: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132     louis     841: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
                    842: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
                    843: <br>
                    844: Christian Weisgerber gave a
                    845: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
                    846: on BSD</a>.
1.32      deraadt   847: <p>
1.1       deraadt   848:
1.216     jose      849: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236     jose      850: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose      851: Conference.</a></strong>,
                    852: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132     louis     853: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
                    854: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
                    855: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
                    856: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room.  For the first
                    857: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147     jason     858: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132     louis     859: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
                    860: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
                    861: <ul>
                    862:
                    863: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
                    864:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose      865:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132     louis     866:     <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                    867:     <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
                    868:
                    869: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
                    870:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose      871:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132     louis     872:     <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                    873:     <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2       deraadt   874:
1.132     louis     875: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
                    876:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt   877:     by Craig Metz.
1.132     louis     878: </ul>
1.2       deraadt   879: <p>
                    880:
1.132     louis     881: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      882: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216     jose      883: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
                    884: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132     louis     885: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
                    886: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
                    887: are available from the user group's site.
1.1       deraadt   888: <p>
1.2       deraadt   889:
1.132     louis     890: <li><strong>
1.216     jose      891: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
                    892: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132     louis     893: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
                    894: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
                    895: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session.  As before, the event
                    896: was invitation only.  Many significant things got done, including
                    897: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1       deraadt   898: <p>
1.11      jkatz     899:
1.17      deraadt   900: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   901: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
                    902: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132     louis     903: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
                    904: of using Open Source software in various business environments.  The local
                    905: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
                    906: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
                    907: OpenBSD.
1.21      pattonme  908: <p>
1.17      deraadt   909:
1.23      niklas    910: <li><strong>
1.216     jose      911: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
                    912: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132     louis     913: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
                    914: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
                    915: efforts.  Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216     jose      916: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132     louis     917: at this event.  (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
                    918: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
                    919: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32      deraadt   920: <p>
1.25      deraadt   921:
1.132     louis     922: <li><strong>
                    923: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201     deraadt   924: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
                    925: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216     jose      926: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132     louis     927: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
                    928: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
                    929: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25      deraadt   930: <p>
1.23      niklas    931:
1.31      deraadt   932: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      933: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216     jose      934: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
                    935: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140     jufi      936: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132     louis     937: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
                    938: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
                    939: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
                    940: improve it.
1.32      deraadt   941: <p>
1.31      deraadt   942:
1.201     deraadt   943: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216     jose      944: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132     louis     945: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
                    946: &quot;Birds Of a Feather&quot; session at the <a
                    947: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
                    948: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33      niklas    949: <p>
1.236     jose      950: </ul>
1.33      niklas    951:
1.132     louis     952: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36      niklas    953:
1.236     jose      954: <ul>
1.216     jose      955: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
                    956: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132     louis     957: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216     jose      958: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132     louis     959: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
                    960: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
                    961: government and military institutions.
1.45      jason     962: <p>
                    963:
1.216     jose      964: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236     jose      965: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216     jose      966: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
                    967: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132     louis     968: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
                    969: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
                    970: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
                    971: There were many other OpenBSD
                    972: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
                    973: t-shirts.  His paper is available at:
                    974:
                    975: <ul>
                    976: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236     jose      977:     <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206     david     978:     by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236     jose      979:     <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                    980:     <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis     981: </ul>
                    982: <p>
                    983:
                    984: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   985: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216     jose      986: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis     987: H&aring;kan Olsson &amp; Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
                    988: <p>
                    989:
                    990: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      991: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux &amp; Open Source
1.216     jose      992: Software '99</a></strong>,
                    993: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132     louis     994: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236     jose      995: <a
                    996: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132     louis     997: <p>
                    998:
                    999: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1000: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     1001: 1999</a></strong>,
                   1002: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1003: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th.  Other OpenBSD
                   1004: developers from the east coast attended as well.
                   1005: <p>
                   1006:
1.236     jose     1007: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216     jose     1008: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
                   1009: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236     jose     1010: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
                   1011: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    1012: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability.  The tests
                   1013: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
                   1014: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
                   1015: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
                   1016: appropriately.  The results were presented later that fall at a
                   1017: conference in Stockholm.
                   1018: <p>
                   1019:
                   1020: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1021: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1022: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132     louis    1023: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
                   1024: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
                   1025: coordinated.
                   1026: <p>
                   1027:
                   1028: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1029: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216     jose     1030: Security</a></strong>,
                   1031: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1032: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
                   1033: shirts.  It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
                   1034: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
                   1035: significant security roles.
                   1036: <p>
                   1037:
                   1038: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1039: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216     jose     1040: meeting</a></strong>,
                   1041: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132     louis    1042: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
                   1043: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
                   1044: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166     miod     1045: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132     louis    1046: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
                   1047: <p>
1.45      jason    1048:
1.132     louis    1049: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1050: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1051: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1052: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
                   1053: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46      deraadt  1054: <p>
1.132     louis    1055:
1.236     jose     1056: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
                   1057: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216     jose     1058: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
                   1059: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106     jufi     1060: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46      deraadt  1061: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106     jufi     1062: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5.  (We distributed the
                   1063: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46      deraadt  1064: June.)
1.132     louis    1065: <br>
1.46      deraadt  1066: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132     louis    1067: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
                   1068:
1.46      deraadt  1069: <ul>
1.236     jose     1070: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66      deraadt  1071: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236     jose     1072:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     1073:     by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     1074:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1075:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1076: <br>
1.66      deraadt  1077: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236     jose     1078:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     1079:     by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236     jose     1080:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1081:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1082: <br>
1.66      deraadt  1083: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236     jose     1084:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     1085:     by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
                   1086:     Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236     jose     1087:     <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1088:     <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1089: <br>
1.66      deraadt  1090: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236     jose     1091:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     1092:     by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     1093:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1094:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1095: </ul>
1.66      deraadt  1096: <p>
1.46      deraadt  1097:
1.51      deraadt  1098: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1099: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1100: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1101: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
                   1102: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
                   1103: at a table donated by the Expo.  OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
                   1104: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
                   1105: to Linux.
1.51      deraadt  1106: <p>
                   1107:
1.53      jakob    1108: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1109: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216     jose     1110: meeting</a></strong>,
                   1111: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1112: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
                   1113: IPSEC developers.
1.53      jakob    1114: <p>
                   1115:
1.132     louis    1116: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1117: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216     jose     1118: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
                   1119: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis    1120: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
                   1121: society as well.  OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
                   1122: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
                   1123: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59      deraadt  1124: <p>
1.236     jose     1125: </ul>
1.59      deraadt  1126:
1.132     louis    1127: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59      deraadt  1128:
1.236     jose     1129: <ul>
1.132     louis    1130: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236     jose     1131: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
                   1132: tests &amp; seminar</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1133: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132     louis    1134: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236     jose     1135: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    1136: implementations who were tested for interoperability.  The tests were
                   1137: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
                   1138: specific.  We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
                   1139: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70      deraadt  1140: <p>
                   1141:
1.236     jose     1142: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
                   1143: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216     jose     1144: Conference</a></strong>,
                   1145: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132     louis    1146: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up.  By far, OpenBSD was the
                   1147: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
                   1148: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
                   1149: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
                   1150: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
                   1151: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
                   1152: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
                   1153: <br>
                   1154: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously  trust in OpenBSD
                   1155: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
                   1156: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72      ho       1157: <p>
                   1158:
1.73      deraadt  1159: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1160: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217     jose     1161: C&oacute;mputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1162: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132     louis    1163: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236     jose     1164: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132     louis    1165: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236     jose     1166: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131     jufi     1167: <p>
1.73      deraadt  1168:
1.236     jose     1169: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216     jose     1170: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132     louis    1171: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
                   1172: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
                   1173: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
                   1174: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
                   1175: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79      deraadt  1176: <p>
1.73      deraadt  1177:
1.80      deraadt  1178: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     1179: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
                   1180: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1181: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151     jsyn     1182: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132     louis    1183: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80      deraadt  1184: <p>
                   1185:
1.93      louis    1186: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1187: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     1188: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236     jose     1189: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1190: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
                   1191: Raymond and others.
1.93      louis    1192: <p>
                   1193:
1.216     jose     1194: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1195: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
                   1196: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1197: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1198: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
                   1199: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96      deraadt  1200: <p>
                   1201:
1.236     jose     1202: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
                   1203: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1204: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1205: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box.  It was involved
                   1206: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
                   1207: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
                   1208: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
                   1209: <br>
                   1210: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again).  The primates
1.236     jose     1211: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132     louis    1212: &quot;wire-frame&quot; OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
                   1213: 200 of them.  The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96      deraadt  1214: <p>
1.94      deraadt  1215:
1.236     jose     1216: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1217: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1218: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
                   1219: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
                   1220: team's process and the lessons the team learned.  The talk concentrated
                   1221: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
                   1222: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99      deraadt  1223: <p>
                   1224:
1.236     jose     1225: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
                   1226: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1227: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1228: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
                   1229: and normal tracks.  Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
                   1230: project offers.  Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
                   1231: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
                   1232: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
                   1233: <br>
                   1234: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3.  We sold many CDROMs.  The
                   1235: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101     wvdputte 1236: <p>
                   1237:
1.105     wvdputte 1238: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1239: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1240: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1241: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
                   1242: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
                   1243: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236     jose     1244: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105     wvdputte 1245: <br>
1.132     louis    1246: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
                   1247: <p>
1.236     jose     1248: </ul>
1.105     wvdputte 1249:
1.132     louis    1250: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107     deraadt  1251:
1.236     jose     1252: <ul>
1.113     deraadt  1253: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1254: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1255: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236     jose     1256: Niels held a
                   1257: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132     louis    1258: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
                   1259: possible solution.
1.113     deraadt  1260: <p>
1.132     louis    1261:
1.236     jose     1262: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216     jose     1263: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166     miod     1264: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236     jose     1265: OpenBSD 2.1.  Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132     louis    1266: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113     deraadt  1267: <p>
1.105     wvdputte 1268:
1.236     jose     1269: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
                   1270: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1271: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1272: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
                   1273: <br>
                   1274: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140     jufi     1275: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236     jose     1276: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118     deraadt  1277: <p>
                   1278:
1.125     deraadt  1279: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1280: <a
                   1281: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1282: Jan  6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    1283: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
                   1284: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236     jose     1285: </ul>
1.125     deraadt  1286:
1.1       deraadt  1287:
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1.236     jose     1289: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt="OpenBSD"></a>
                   1290: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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