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1.236 jose 15: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
16: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
17: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
18: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 19: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 21: <hr>
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23: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 24:
1.287 henning 25: <h3>2005</h3>
1.236 jose 26:
27: <ul>
1.306 mickey 28: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
29: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
30: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
31: Mickey will be giving a talk about <a href="hppa.html">OpenBSD port</a>
32: to <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
33: <p>
1.299 deraadt 34: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1.308 ! deraadt 35: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1.299 deraadt 36: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
37: Theo de Raadt will be presenting his talk about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
38: <p>
39: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
40: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
41: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
42: Ryan McBride will be presenting talks about PF and about
43: randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.<br>
1.300 mcbride 44: Theo and Henning will be in attendance because someone has to heckle.
1.302 mcbride 45: <p>
46: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1.303 mcbride 47: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1.302 mcbride 48: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
49: A number of OpenBSD developers will be presenting: Bob Beck on
50: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
51: and Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness.
52: Expect to find other OpenBSD developers in attendance as well.
1.236 jose 53: </ul>
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1.152 jakob 70: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 72: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 73:
74: <ul>
1.308 ! deraadt 75: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
! 76: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
! 77: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
! 78: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
! 79: talks. Topics included exploit mitigation techniques, introducing network
! 80: randomness to increase security, OpenBGPD, and pf. Almost 200 people
! 81: came to this event.
! 82: <p>
! 83:
1.304 saad 84: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
85: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
86: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
87: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
88: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 89: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 90: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.305 nick 91: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Joris Vink, Olivier Cherrier, Alexander von Gernler,
1.304 saad 92: and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
93: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
94: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
95: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
96: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
97: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
98: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
99: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
100: <p>
1.301 saad 101: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
102: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
103: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
104: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
105: <p>
106: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
107: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
108: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
109: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
110: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
111: <p>
1.293 saad 112: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
113: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
114: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
115: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
116: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
117: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 118: french translation team.<br>
119: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
120: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
121: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
122: available.<br>
123: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 124: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
125: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
126: <p>
1.296 mcbride 127: </ul>
1.293 saad 128:
1.296 mcbride 129: <h3>2004</h3>
130:
131: <ul>
1.287 henning 132: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
133: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
134: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
135: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
136: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
137: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
138: Uwe Stuehler, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
139: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
140: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
141: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
142: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
143: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
144: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 145: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 146: driver.
147: <p>
1.248 deraadt 148:
1.286 kevlo 149: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
150: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
151: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
152: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
153: <p>
154:
1.285 deraadt 155: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
156: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
157: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
158: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
159: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
160: <p>
161:
1.283 saad 162: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
163: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
164: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
165: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
166: meeting of the
167: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
168: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 169: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 170: <p>
171:
1.282 henning 172: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
173: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
174: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
175: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
176: two days, on bgpd
177: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
178: ntpd
179: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
180: and signal handlers
181: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
182: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
183: <p>
184:
1.275 deraadt 185: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
186: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
187: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
188: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
189: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
190: Room B-02 of the
191: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
192: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
193: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
194: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
195: The talk was also given the following day at the
196: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
197: <p>
198:
1.271 henning 199: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
200: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
201: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 202: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
203: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 204: Henning gave a talk
1.272 henning 205: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
206: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 207: <p>
208:
209: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
210: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
211: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 212: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
213: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 214: <p>
215:
1.276 deraadt 216: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 217: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
218: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
219: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
220: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
221: <p>
222:
223: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 224: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
225: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
226: <p>
227:
228: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
229: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
230: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
231: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
232: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
233: <p>
234:
1.268 krw 235: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
236: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
237: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
238: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
239: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
240: <p>
241:
242: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
243: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
244: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
245: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
246: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
247: <p>
248:
249: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
250: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
251: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
252: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
253: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
254: <p>
255:
1.265 wvdputte 256: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
257: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
258: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
259: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
260: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
261: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
262: event."
263: <br>
264: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
265: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
266: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
267: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
268: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
269: <br>
270: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
271: <p>
272:
1.262 henning 273: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
274: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
275: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
276: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
277: Henning's slides from his talks about
278: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
279: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
280: are available.
281: <p>
282:
1.261 deraadt 283: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 284: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 285: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
286: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
287: newly extended version of the
288: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
289: For more information, see this
290: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
291: ComputerWorld article</a>.
292: <p>
293:
294:
1.257 saad 295: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
296: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
297: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
298: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
299: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
300: <p>
301:
302: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
303: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
304: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
305: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
306: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
307: <p>
308:
1.256 mickey 309: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
310: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
311: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
312: session.
313: <p>
314:
1.254 xsa 315: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 316: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 317: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
318: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
319: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
320: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
321: a basic talk about pf.
322: <p>
323:
1.248 deraadt 324: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 325: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 326: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
327: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 328: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
329: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
330: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 331: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
332: <p>
333:
1.247 canacar 334: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
335: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
336: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
337: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
338: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
339: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
340: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
341: projects were discussed.<br>
342: You can view the
1.281 canacar 343: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 344: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 345: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 346: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
347: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
348: <p>
349:
1.242 henning 350: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
351: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
352: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 353: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
354: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
355: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
356: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
357: and systrace
1.263 saad 358: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 359: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
360: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
361: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 362: <p>
363:
1.240 espie 364: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
365: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
366: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
367: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
368: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
369: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
370: <p>
371:
372: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
373: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
374: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
375: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
376: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
377: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
378: <p>
379: </ul>
380:
1.188 henning 381: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 382:
383: <ul>
1.232 jose 384: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
385: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
386: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
387: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
388: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 389: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 390: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 391: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 392: <p>
1.232 jose 393:
1.228 jose 394: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 395: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 396: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
397: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 398: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
399: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 400: with OpenBSD PF.
401: <p>
402:
403: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
404: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
405: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
406: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
407: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 408: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
409: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
410: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
411: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 412: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 413: slides in PDF format </a>
414: (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 415: <p>
416:
1.227 jose 417: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
418: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
419: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
420: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
421: <p>
422:
423: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
424: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
425: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 426: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 427: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 428: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
429: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 430: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 431: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 432: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 433: in Internet worm defenses.
434: <p>
435:
1.224 miod 436: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
437: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
438: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
439: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
440: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
441: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
442: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
443: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
444: OpenBSD.
445: <p>
446:
447: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
448: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
449: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
450: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
451: <p>
452:
453: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
454: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
455: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
456: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
457: <p>
458:
1.219 jose 459: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
460: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
461: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 462: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 463: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
464: <p>
465:
1.218 jose 466: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
467: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
468: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 469: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 470: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
471: <p>
472:
1.214 henning 473: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
474: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 475: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 476: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
477: <p>
478:
1.213 jose 479: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
480: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 481: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 482: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 483: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
484: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
485: <p>
486:
1.211 jose 487: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
488: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 489: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 490: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
491: <p>
492:
493: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
494: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 495: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 496: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 497: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
498: <p>
499:
1.209 wvdputte 500: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
501: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 502: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 503: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
504: <p>
1.195 deraadt 505:
1.202 jason 506: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 507: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 508: Conference</a></strong>,
509: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 510: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
511: <ul>
1.216 jose 512: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 513: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 514: Angelos D. Keromytis,
515: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 516: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 517: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
518: </ul>
519: <p>
520:
1.201 deraadt 521: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 522: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 523: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
524: session.
525: <p>
526:
1.216 jose 527: <li><strong>
528: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
529: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 530: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
531: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
532: <p>
533:
1.216 jose 534: <li><strong>
535: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
536: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 537: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 538: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 539: <p>
540:
1.216 jose 541: <li><strong>
542: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
543: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 544: 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 545: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 546: <p>
547:
1.216 jose 548: <li><strong>
549: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
550: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 551: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
552: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 553: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
554: user groups.
555: <p>
556:
1.236 jose 557: <li><strong>
558: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 559: Group</a></strong>,
560: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 561: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
562: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
563: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
564: <p>
565:
1.216 jose 566: <li><strong>
567: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
568: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 569: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 570: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 571: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
572: <p>
573:
1.216 jose 574: <li><strong>
575: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
576: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 577: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
578: CD sets and Tshirts.
579: <p>
1.236 jose 580: </ul>
1.185 miod 581:
1.161 millert 582: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 583:
584: <ul>
585: <li><strong>
586: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 587: Congress</a></strong>,
588: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 589: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
590: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 591: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
592: <p>
1.177 jason 593:
1.216 jose 594: <li><strong>
595: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
596: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 597: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 598: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 599: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
600: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 601: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 602: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
603: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 604: <p>
1.178 pb 605:
1.216 jose 606: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 607: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 608: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
609: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 610: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
611: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
612: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
613: <p>
614:
1.216 jose 615: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 616: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
617: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
618: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
619: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
620: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
621: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
622: <p>
623:
624: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 625: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
626: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 627: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
628: Niels Provos presented his
629: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
630: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 631: <p>
1.172 miod 632:
1.216 jose 633: <li><strong>
634: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
635: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 636: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
637: <p>
638:
1.216 jose 639: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 640: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 641: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
642: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 643: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
644: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 645: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 646: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 647: <p>
1.168 miod 648:
1.216 jose 649: <li><strong>
650: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
651: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 652: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 653: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
654: are available.
1.161 millert 655: <p>
656:
1.216 jose 657: <li><strong>
658: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
659: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 660: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
661: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
662: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
663: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
664: <p>
665:
1.216 jose 666: <li><strong>
667: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
668: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 669: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
670: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
671: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
672: <p>
1.236 jose 673: </ul>
1.164 millert 674:
1.152 jakob 675: <h3>2001</h3>
676:
1.236 jose 677: <ul>
1.216 jose 678: <li><strong>
679: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
680: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 681: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
682: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
683: <p>
684:
1.216 jose 685: <li><strong>
686: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
687: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 688: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
689: <p>
690:
1.158 deraadt 691: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 692: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 693: 2001</a></strong>,
694: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 695: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
696: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
697: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
698: <p>
699:
1.216 jose 700: <li><strong>
701: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
702: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 703: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
704: <p>
705:
1.201 deraadt 706: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 707: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 708: Jakob and Itojun were there.
709: <p>
1.158 deraadt 710:
1.150 wvdputte 711: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 712: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 713: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 714: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
715: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
716: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 717: <p>
1.137 aaron 718:
719: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 720: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 721: Conference</a></strong>,
722: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 723: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
724: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
725: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
726: <p>
727:
728: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 729: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 730: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 731: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
732: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
733: <p>
734:
735: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 736: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 737: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
738: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 739: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
740: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
741: <p>
742:
743: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 744: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 745: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
746: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 747: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
748: <p>
749:
750: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 751: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 752: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 753: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 754: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
755: security community.
756: <p>
757:
758: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 759: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 760: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
761: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 762: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
763: <p>
764:
765: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 766: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 767: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 768: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 769: <p>
1.236 jose 770: </ul>
1.137 aaron 771:
1.132 louis 772: <h3>2000</h3>
773:
1.236 jose 774: <ul>
1.132 louis 775: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 776: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 777: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
778: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 779: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
780: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
781: <p>
782:
783: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 784: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 785: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 786: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
787: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
788: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
789: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 790: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 791: <p>
792:
793: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 794: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 795: 2000</a></strong>,
796: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 797: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 798: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 799: <p>
1.4 millert 800:
1.132 louis 801: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 802: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 803: Summit</a></strong>,
804: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 805: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 806: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
807: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
808:
809: <ul>
1.236 jose 810: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 811: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 812: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
813: </ul>
1.4 millert 814: <p>
1.132 louis 815:
1.7 deraadt 816: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 817: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 818: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 819: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
820: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 821: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 822: mind (drinks afterwards).
823: <p>
824:
1.216 jose 825: <li><strong>
826: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
827: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 828: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
829: questions.
1.32 deraadt 830: <p>
1.1 deraadt 831:
1.132 louis 832: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 833: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 834: Revolution</a></strong>,
835: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 836: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
837: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 838: <p>
839:
1.132 louis 840: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 841: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
842: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 843: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
844: <ul>
1.236 jose 845: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 846: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 847: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 848: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
849: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
850: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 851: <p>
1.132 louis 852:
1.10 provos 853: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 854: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 855: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 856: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 857: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
858: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
859: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
860: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
861: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
862: <br>
863: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
864: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
865: <p>
1.32 deraadt 866:
1.132 louis 867: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 868: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 869: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
870: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
871: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 872: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
873: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
874: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
875: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
876: and spoke about
877: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 878: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 879: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 880: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 881: <p>
1.132 louis 882:
1.6 deraadt 883: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 884: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 885: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 886: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
887: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
888: <br>
889: Christian Weisgerber gave a
890: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
891: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 892: <p>
1.1 deraadt 893:
1.216 jose 894: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 895: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 896: Conference.</a></strong>,
897: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 898: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
899: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
900: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
901: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
902: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 903: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 904: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
905: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
906: <ul>
907:
908: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
909: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 910: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 911: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
912: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
913:
914: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
915: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 916: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 917: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
918: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 919:
1.132 louis 920: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
921: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 922: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 923: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 924: <p>
925:
1.132 louis 926: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 927: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 928: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
929: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 930: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
931: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
932: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 933: <p>
1.2 deraadt 934:
1.132 louis 935: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 936: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
937: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 938: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
939: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
940: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
941: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
942: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 943: <p>
1.11 jkatz 944:
1.17 deraadt 945: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 946: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
947: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 948: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
949: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
950: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
951: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
952: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 953: <p>
1.17 deraadt 954:
1.23 niklas 955: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 956: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
957: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 958: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
959: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
960: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 961: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 962: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
963: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
964: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 965: <p>
1.25 deraadt 966:
1.132 louis 967: <li><strong>
968: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 969: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
970: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 971: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 972: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
973: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
974: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 975: <p>
1.23 niklas 976:
1.31 deraadt 977: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 978: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 979: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
980: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 981: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 982: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
983: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
984: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
985: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 986: <p>
1.31 deraadt 987:
1.201 deraadt 988: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 989: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 990: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
991: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
992: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
993: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 994: <p>
1.236 jose 995: </ul>
1.33 niklas 996:
1.132 louis 997: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 998:
1.236 jose 999: <ul>
1.216 jose 1000: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1001: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1002: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1003: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 1004: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
1005: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1006: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1007: <p>
1008:
1.216 jose 1009: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1010: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1011: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1012: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1013: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1014: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1015: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1016: There were many other OpenBSD
1017: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1018: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
1019:
1020: <ul>
1021: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1022: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1023: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1024: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1025: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1026: </ul>
1027: <p>
1028:
1029: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1030: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1031: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1032: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1033: <p>
1034:
1035: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1036: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1037: Software '99</a></strong>,
1038: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1039: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1040: <a
1041: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1042: <p>
1043:
1044: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1045: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1046: 1999</a></strong>,
1047: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1048: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1049: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1050: <p>
1051:
1.236 jose 1052: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1053: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1054: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1055: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1056: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1057: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1058: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1059: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1060: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1061: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1062: conference in Stockholm.
1063: <p>
1064:
1065: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1066: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1067: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1068: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1069: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1070: coordinated.
1071: <p>
1072:
1073: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1074: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1075: Security</a></strong>,
1076: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1077: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1078: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1079: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1080: significant security roles.
1081: <p>
1082:
1083: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1084: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1085: meeting</a></strong>,
1086: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1087: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1088: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1089: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1090: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1091: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1092: <p>
1.45 jason 1093:
1.132 louis 1094: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1095: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1096: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1097: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1098: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1099: <p>
1.132 louis 1100:
1.236 jose 1101: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1102: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1103: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1104: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1105: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1106: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1107: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1108: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1109: June.)
1.132 louis 1110: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1111: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1112: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1113:
1.46 deraadt 1114: <ul>
1.236 jose 1115: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 1116: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1117: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1118: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1119: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1120: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1121: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1122: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1123: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1124: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1125: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1126: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1127: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1128: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1129: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1130: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1131: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1132: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1133: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1134: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1135: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1136: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1137: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1138: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1139: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1140: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1141: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1142:
1.51 deraadt 1143: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1144: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1145: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1146: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1147: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1148: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1149: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1150: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1151: <p>
1152:
1.53 jakob 1153: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1154: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1155: meeting</a></strong>,
1156: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1157: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1158: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1159: <p>
1160:
1.132 louis 1161: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1162: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1163: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1164: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1165: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1166: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1167: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1168: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1169: <p>
1.236 jose 1170: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1171:
1.132 louis 1172: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1173:
1.236 jose 1174: <ul>
1.132 louis 1175: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1176: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1177: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1178: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1179: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 1180: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1181: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1182: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1183: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1184: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1185: <p>
1186:
1.236 jose 1187: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1188: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1189: Conference</a></strong>,
1190: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1191: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1192: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1193: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1194: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1195: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1196: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1197: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1198: <br>
1199: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1200: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1201: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1202: <p>
1203:
1.73 deraadt 1204: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1205: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1206: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1207: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1208: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1209: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1210: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1211: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1212: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1213:
1.236 jose 1214: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1215: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1216: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1217: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1218: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1219: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1220: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1221: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1222:
1.80 deraadt 1223: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1224: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1225: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1226: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1227: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1228: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1229: <p>
1230:
1.93 louis 1231: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1232: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1233: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1234: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1235: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1236: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1237: <p>
1238:
1.216 jose 1239: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1240: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1241: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1242: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1243: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1244: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1245: <p>
1246:
1.236 jose 1247: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1248: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1249: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1250: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1251: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1252: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1253: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1254: <br>
1255: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1256: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1257: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1258: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1259: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1260:
1.236 jose 1261: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1262: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1263: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1264: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1265: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1266: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1267: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1268: <p>
1269:
1.236 jose 1270: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1271: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1272: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1273: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1274: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1275: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1276: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1277: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1278: <br>
1279: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1280: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1281: <p>
1282:
1.105 wvdputte 1283: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1284: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1285: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1286: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1287: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1288: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1289: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1290: <br>
1.132 louis 1291: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1292: <p>
1.236 jose 1293: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1294:
1.132 louis 1295: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1296:
1.236 jose 1297: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1298: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1299: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1300: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1301: Niels held a
1302: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1303: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1304: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1305: <p>
1.132 louis 1306:
1.236 jose 1307: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1308: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1309: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1310: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1311: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1312: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1313:
1.236 jose 1314: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1315: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1316: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1317: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1318: <br>
1319: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1320: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1321: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1322: <p>
1323:
1.125 deraadt 1324: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1325: <a
1326: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1327: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1328: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1329: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1330: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1331:
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