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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>
1.299     deraadt    28: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
                     29: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
                     30: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
                     31: Ryan McBride will be presenting talks about PF and about
                     32: randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.<br>
1.300     mcbride    33: Theo and Henning will be in attendance because someone has to heckle.
1.302     mcbride    34: <p>
                     35: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1.303     mcbride    36: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1.302     mcbride    37: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                     38: A number of OpenBSD developers will be presenting: Bob Beck on
                     39: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1.309     henning    40: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter
                     41: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL.
1.302     mcbride    42: Expect to find other OpenBSD developers in attendance as well.
1.236     jose       43: </ul>
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1.216     jose       51:
                     52:     Tagline formatting:
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                     54:     <a href=LINK>EVENT NAME</a></strong>,
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1.152     jakob      60: <h2>Past events:</h2>
                     61:
1.296     mcbride    62: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240     espie      63:
                     64: <ul>
1.312     deraadt    65: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
                     66: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
                     67: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
                     68: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
                     69: <p>
                     70:
1.310     mickey     71: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
                     72: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
                     73: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.313     martin     74: Mickey gave a talk about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
                     75: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310     mickey     76: <p>
1.312     deraadt    77:
1.308     deraadt    78: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
                     79: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
                     80: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
                     81: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
                     82: talks. Topics included exploit mitigation techniques, introducing network
                     83: randomness to increase security, OpenBGPD, and pf.  Almost 200 people
                     84: came to this event.
                     85: <p>
                     86:
1.304     saad       87: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
                     88: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
                     89: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                     90: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
                     91: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307     otto       92: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304     saad       93: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Hans-J&ouml;rg
1.316   ! mbalmer    94: H&ouml;xer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink, Olivier Cherrier,
        !            95: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304     saad       96: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
                     97: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Fl&ouml;ter (about wireless cards in
                     98: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
                     99: <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>
                    100: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
                    101: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
                    102: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
                    103: <p>
1.301     saad      104: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
                    105: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
                    106: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
                    107: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
                    108: <p>
                    109: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
                    110: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
                    111: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
                    112: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked about the latest wireless support in
                    113: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
                    114: <p>
1.293     saad      115: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
                    116: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
                    117: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
                    118: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
                    119: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
                    120: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294     saad      121: french translation team.<br>
                    122: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
                    123: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
                    124: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
                    125: available.<br>
                    126: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293     saad      127: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
                    128: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
                    129: <p>
1.296     mcbride   130: </ul>
1.293     saad      131:
1.296     mcbride   132: <h3>2004</h3>
                    133:
                    134: <ul>
1.287     henning   135: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
                    136: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
                    137: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
                    138: &quot;The Usual Suspects&quot; were there and ran the BSD corner, including
                    139: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
                    140: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315     nick      141: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287     henning   142: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
                    143: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
                    144: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
                    145: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
                    146: work done by Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Tim Kornau and others.
                    147: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290     henning   148: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287     henning   149: driver.
                    150: <p>
1.248     deraadt   151:
1.286     kevlo     152: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
                    153: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
                    154: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
                    155: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
                    156: <p>
                    157:
1.285     deraadt   158: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
                    159: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
                    160: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
                    161: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
                    162: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                    163: <p>
                    164:
1.283     saad      165: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
                    166: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
                    167: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                    168: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
                    169: meeting of the
                    170: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
                    171: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284     xsa       172: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283     saad      173: <p>
                    174:
1.282     henning   175: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
                    176: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
                    177: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
                    178: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
                    179: two days, on bgpd
                    180: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
                    181: ntpd
                    182: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
                    183: and signal handlers
                    184: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
                    185: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
                    186: <p>
                    187:
1.275     deraadt   188: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
                    189: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
                    190: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
                    191: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
                    192: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
                    193: Room B-02 of the
                    194: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
                    195: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
                    196: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
                    197: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
                    198: The talk was also given the following day at the
                    199: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
                    200: <p>
                    201:
1.271     henning   202: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
                    203: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
                    204: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning   205: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    206: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning   207: Henning gave a talk
1.272     henning   208: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
                    209: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271     henning   210: <p>
                    211:
                    212: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
                    213: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
                    214: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning   215: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    216: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning   217: <p>
                    218:
1.276     deraadt   219: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270     deraadt   220: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
                    221: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
                    222: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
                    223: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
                    224: <p>
                    225:
                    226: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269     krw       227: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
                    228: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
                    229: <p>
                    230:
                    231: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
                    232: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
                    233: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
                    234: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    235: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    236: <p>
                    237:
1.268     krw       238: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
                    239: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
                    240: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
                    241: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    242: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    243: <p>
                    244:
                    245: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
                    246: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
                    247: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
                    248: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
                    249: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
                    250: <p>
                    251:
                    252: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
                    253: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
                    254: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
                    255: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    256: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    257: <p>
                    258:
1.265     wvdputte  259: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
                    260: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
                    261: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
                    262: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
                    263: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
                    264: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
                    265: event."
                    266: <br>
                    267: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
                    268: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
                    269: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
                    270: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
                    271: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
                    272: <br>
                    273: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
                    274: <p>
                    275:
1.262     henning   276: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
                    277: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
                    278: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
                    279: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
                    280: Henning's slides from his talks about
                    281: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
                    282: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
                    283: are available.
                    284: <p>
                    285:
1.261     deraadt   286: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266     jolan     287: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261     deraadt   288: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                    289: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
                    290: newly extended version of the
                    291: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
                    292: For more information, see this
                    293: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
                    294: ComputerWorld article</a>.
                    295: <p>
                    296:
                    297:
1.257     saad      298: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
                    299: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
                    300: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
                    301: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    302: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                    303: <p>
                    304:
                    305: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
                    306: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
                    307: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
                    308: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    309: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                    310: <p>
                    311:
1.256     mickey    312: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
                    313: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
                    314: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
                    315: session.
                    316: <p>
                    317:
1.254     xsa       318: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255     xsa       319: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254     xsa       320: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                    321: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
                    322: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
                    323: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
                    324: a basic talk about pf.
                    325: <p>
                    326:
1.248     deraadt   327: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303     mcbride   328: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248     deraadt   329: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                    330: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa.  Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302     mcbride   331: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
                    332: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
                    333: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248     deraadt   334: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                    335: <p>
                    336:
1.247     canacar   337: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
                    338: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
                    339: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
                    340: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
                    341: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
                    342: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &amp;
                    343: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
                    344: projects were discussed.<br>
                    345: You can view the
1.281     canacar   346: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247     canacar   347: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281     canacar   348: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247     canacar   349: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
                    350: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
                    351: <p>
                    352:
1.242     henning   353: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
                    354: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
                    355: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243     henning   356: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
                    357: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
                    358: Philipp B&uuml;hler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
                    359: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave &quot;lightning talks&quot; about Soekris
                    360: and systrace
1.263     saad      361: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243     henning   362: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
                    363: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
                    364: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242     henning   365: <p>
                    366:
1.240     espie     367: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
                    368: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
                    369: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                    370: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
                    371: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
                    372: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    373: <p>
                    374:
                    375: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
                    376: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
                    377: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
                    378: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
                    379: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
                    380: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
                    381: <p>
                    382: </ul>
                    383:
1.188     henning   384: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236     jose      385:
                    386: <ul>
1.232     jose      387: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
                    388: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
                    389: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                    390: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
                    391: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236     jose      392: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260     saad      393: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232     jose      394: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236     jose      395: <p>
1.232     jose      396:
1.228     jose      397: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236     jose      398: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228     jose      399: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
                    400: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236     jose      401: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
                    402: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228     jose      403: with OpenBSD PF.
                    404: <p>
                    405:
                    406: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
                    407: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
                    408: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
                    409: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
                    410: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236     jose      411: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
                    412: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
                    413: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
                    414: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281     canacar   415: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236     jose      416: slides in PDF format </a>
                    417: (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      418: <p>
                    419:
1.227     jose      420: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
                    421: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
                    422: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
                    423: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    424: <p>
                    425:
                    426: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
                    427: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
                    428: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236     jose      429: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227     jose      430: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236     jose      431: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
                    432: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227     jose      433: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236     jose      434: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241     david     435: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227     jose      436: in Internet worm defenses.
                    437: <p>
                    438:
1.224     miod      439: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
                    440: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>&egrave;mes</sup> Journ&eacute;es du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
                    441: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
                    442: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
                    443: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
                    444: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
                    445: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
                    446: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
                    447: OpenBSD.
                    448: <p>
                    449:
                    450: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
                    451: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbr&uuml;cken 2003</a></strong>,
                    452: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbr&uuml;cken, Germany.<br>
                    453: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
                    454: <p>
                    455:
                    456: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
                    457: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
                    458: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
                    459: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
                    460: <p>
                    461:
1.219     jose      462: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
                    463: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
                    464: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236     jose      465: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219     jose      466: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
                    467: <p>
                    468:
1.218     jose      469: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
                    470: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
                    471: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236     jose      472: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218     jose      473: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
                    474: <p>
                    475:
1.214     henning   476: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
                    477: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      478: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214     henning   479: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
                    480: <p>
                    481:
1.213     jose      482: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
                    483: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      484: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236     jose      485: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213     jose      486: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
                    487: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
                    488: <p>
                    489:
1.211     jose      490: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
                    491: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      492: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211     jose      493: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
                    494: <p>
                    495:
                    496: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
                    497: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      498: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212     matthieu  499: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211     jose      500: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                    501: <p>
                    502:
1.209     wvdputte  503: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
                    504: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      505: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209     wvdputte  506: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                    507: <p>
1.195     deraadt   508:
1.202     jason     509: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236     jose      510: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose      511: Conference</a></strong>,
                    512: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202     jason     513: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                    514: <ul>
1.216     jose      515: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202     jason     516:     <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236     jose      517:     Angelos D. Keromytis,
                    518:     Jason L. Wright, and
1.205     deraadt   519:     Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202     jason     520:     <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
                    521: </ul>
                    522: <p>
                    523:
1.201     deraadt   524: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216     jose      525: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201     deraadt   526: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
                    527: session.
                    528: <p>
                    529:
1.216     jose      530: <li><strong>
                    531: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
                    532: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203     jason     533: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
                    534: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
                    535: <p>
                    536:
1.216     jose      537: <li><strong>
                    538: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
                    539: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195     deraadt   540: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196     matthieu  541: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195     deraadt   542: <p>
                    543:
1.216     jose      544: <li><strong>
                    545: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
                    546: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236     jose      547: 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  548: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194     henning   549: <p>
                    550:
1.216     jose      551: <li><strong>
                    552: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
                    553: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236     jose      554: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
                    555: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191     dhartmei  556: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
                    557: user groups.
                    558: <p>
                    559:
1.236     jose      560: <li><strong>
                    561: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216     jose      562: Group</a></strong>,
                    563: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190     miod      564: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
                    565: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
                    566: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
                    567: <p>
                    568:
1.216     jose      569: <li><strong>
                    570: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
                    571: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236     jose      572: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196     matthieu  573: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187     henning   574: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
                    575: <p>
                    576:
1.216     jose      577: <li><strong>
                    578: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
                    579: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185     miod      580: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
                    581: CD sets and Tshirts.
                    582: <p>
1.236     jose      583: </ul>
1.185     miod      584:
1.161     millert   585: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236     jose      586:
                    587: <ul>
                    588: <li><strong>
                    589: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216     jose      590: Congress</a></strong>,
                    591: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236     jose      592: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
                    593: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184     wvdputte  594: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
                    595: <p>
1.177     jason     596:
1.216     jose      597: <li><strong>
                    598: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
                    599: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181     henning   600: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236     jose      601: Philipp B&uuml;hler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182     ian       602: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
                    603: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236     jose      604: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182     ian       605: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
                    606: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179     pb        607: <p>
1.178     pb        608:
1.216     jose      609: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      610: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216     jose      611: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
                    612: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177     jason     613: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
                    614: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
                    615: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
                    616: <p>
                    617:
1.216     jose      618: <li><strong>
1.264     djm       619: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
                    620: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
                    621: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
                    622: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
                    623: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
                    624: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
                    625: <p>
                    626:
                    627: <li><strong>
1.216     jose      628: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
                    629: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172     miod      630: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
                    631: Niels Provos presented his
                    632: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
                    633: system call policy management tool.
1.174     nick      634: <p>
1.172     miod      635:
1.216     jose      636: <li><strong>
                    637: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
                    638: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171     ian       639: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                    640: <p>
                    641:
1.216     jose      642: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      643: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216     jose      644: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
                    645: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236     jose      646: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
                    647: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169     horacio   648: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236     jose      649: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169     horacio   650: <p>
1.168     miod      651:
1.216     jose      652: <li><strong>
                    653: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
                    654: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161     millert   655: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162     millert   656: BSD panel discussion.  The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
                    657: are available.
1.161     millert   658: <p>
                    659:
1.216     jose      660: <li><strong>
                    661: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
                    662: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163     miod      663: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
                    664: up with others on the expo's side.  On the first day, almost all the merchandise
                    665: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
                    666: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
                    667: <p>
                    668:
1.216     jose      669: <li><strong>
                    670: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
                    671: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164     millert   672: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
                    673: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
                    674: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
                    675: <p>
1.236     jose      676: </ul>
1.164     millert   677:
1.152     jakob     678: <h3>2001</h3>
                    679:
1.236     jose      680: <ul>
1.216     jose      681: <li><strong>
                    682: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
                    683: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160     jufi      684: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
                    685: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
                    686: <p>
                    687:
1.216     jose      688: <li><strong>
                    689: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
                    690: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160     jufi      691: Angelos, Itojun &amp; Jakob were there.
                    692: <p>
                    693:
1.158     deraadt   694: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      695: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216     jose      696: 2001</a></strong>,
                    697: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158     deraadt   698: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
                    699: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
                    700: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
                    701: <p>
                    702:
1.216     jose      703: <li><strong>
                    704: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
                    705: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156     provos    706: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
                    707: <p>
                    708:
1.201     deraadt   709: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216     jose      710: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156     provos    711: Jakob and Itojun were there.
                    712: <p>
1.158     deraadt   713:
1.150     wvdputte  714: <li><strong>
1.215     nick      715: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      716: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153     jufi      717: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
                    718: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
                    719: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150     wvdputte  720: <p>
1.137     aaron     721:
                    722: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      723: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose      724: Conference</a></strong>,
                    725: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148     brian     726: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                    727: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
                    728: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
                    729: <p>
                    730:
                    731: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   732: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      733: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148     brian     734: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
                    735: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
                    736: <p>
                    737:
                    738: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      739: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216     jose      740: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
                    741: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146     krw       742: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
                    743: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
                    744: <p>
                    745:
                    746: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      747: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216     jose      748: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
                    749: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146     krw       750: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                    751: <p>
                    752:
                    753: <li><strong>
1.143     dugsong   754: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201     deraadt   755: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      756: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143     dugsong   757: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
                    758: security community.
                    759: <p>
                    760:
                    761: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      762: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216     jose      763: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
                    764: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137     aaron     765: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
                    766: <p>
                    767:
                    768: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   769: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      770: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236     jose      771: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137     aaron     772: <p>
1.236     jose      773: </ul>
1.137     aaron     774:
1.132     louis     775: <h3>2000</h3>
                    776:
1.236     jose      777: <ul>
1.132     louis     778: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      779: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216     jose      780: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
                    781: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134     jufi      782: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
                    783: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
                    784: <p>
                    785:
                    786: <li><strong>
1.215     nick      787: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      788: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133     deraadt   789: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
                    790: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
                    791: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
                    792: experts who had flown in from around the world.  Following this, Theo climbed
1.151     jsyn      793: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133     deraadt   794: <p>
                    795:
                    796: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      797: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216     jose      798: 2000</a></strong>,
                    799: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236     jose      800: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132     louis     801: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13      deraadt   802: <p>
1.4       millert   803:
1.132     louis     804: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236     jose      805: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216     jose      806: Summit</a></strong>,
                    807: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159     miod      808: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132     louis     809: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
                    810: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
                    811:
                    812: <ul>
1.236     jose      813: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215     nick      814:     <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis     815:     <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                    816: </ul>
1.4       millert   817: <p>
1.132     louis     818:
1.7       deraadt   819: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   820: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      821: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132     louis     822: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
                    823: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236     jose      824: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132     louis     825: mind (drinks afterwards).
                    826: <p>
                    827:
1.216     jose      828: <li><strong>
                    829: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
                    830: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132     louis     831: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
                    832: questions.
1.32      deraadt   833: <p>
1.1       deraadt   834:
1.132     louis     835: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236     jose      836: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216     jose      837: Revolution</a></strong>,
                    838: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133     deraadt   839: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
                    840: have changed over the last years.
1.1       deraadt   841: <p>
                    842:
1.132     louis     843: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216     jose      844: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
                    845: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132     louis     846: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                    847: <ul>
1.236     jose      848: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132     louis     849:     <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt   850:     by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis     851:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
                    852:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                    853: </ul>
1.1       deraadt   854: <p>
1.132     louis     855:
1.10      provos    856: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   857: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      858: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236     jose      859: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132     louis     860: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
                    861: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
                    862: Friday and Saturday.  Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
                    863: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
                    864: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
                    865: <br>
                    866: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
                    867: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
                    868: <p>
1.32      deraadt   869:
1.132     louis     870: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      871: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose      872: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
                    873: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
                    874: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132     louis     875: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
                    876: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
                    877: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
                    878: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
                    879: and spoke about
                    880: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241     david     881: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132     louis     882: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236     jose      883: after the security talk.
1.3       provos    884: <p>
1.132     louis     885:
1.6       deraadt   886: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   887: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      888: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132     louis     889: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
                    890: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
                    891: <br>
                    892: Christian Weisgerber gave a
                    893: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
                    894: on BSD</a>.
1.32      deraadt   895: <p>
1.1       deraadt   896:
1.216     jose      897: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236     jose      898: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose      899: Conference.</a></strong>,
                    900: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132     louis     901: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
                    902: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
                    903: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
                    904: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room.  For the first
                    905: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147     jason     906: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132     louis     907: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
                    908: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
                    909: <ul>
                    910:
                    911: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
                    912:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose      913:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132     louis     914:     <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                    915:     <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
                    916:
                    917: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
                    918:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose      919:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132     louis     920:     <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                    921:     <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2       deraadt   922:
1.132     louis     923: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
                    924:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt   925:     by Craig Metz.
1.132     louis     926: </ul>
1.2       deraadt   927: <p>
                    928:
1.132     louis     929: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      930: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216     jose      931: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
                    932: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132     louis     933: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
                    934: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
                    935: are available from the user group's site.
1.1       deraadt   936: <p>
1.2       deraadt   937:
1.132     louis     938: <li><strong>
1.216     jose      939: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
                    940: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132     louis     941: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
                    942: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
                    943: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session.  As before, the event
                    944: was invitation only.  Many significant things got done, including
                    945: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1       deraadt   946: <p>
1.11      jkatz     947:
1.17      deraadt   948: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   949: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
                    950: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132     louis     951: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
                    952: of using Open Source software in various business environments.  The local
                    953: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
                    954: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
                    955: OpenBSD.
1.21      pattonme  956: <p>
1.17      deraadt   957:
1.23      niklas    958: <li><strong>
1.216     jose      959: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
                    960: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132     louis     961: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
                    962: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
                    963: efforts.  Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216     jose      964: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132     louis     965: at this event.  (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
                    966: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
                    967: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32      deraadt   968: <p>
1.25      deraadt   969:
1.132     louis     970: <li><strong>
                    971: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201     deraadt   972: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
                    973: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216     jose      974: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132     louis     975: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
                    976: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
                    977: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25      deraadt   978: <p>
1.23      niklas    979:
1.31      deraadt   980: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      981: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216     jose      982: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
                    983: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140     jufi      984: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132     louis     985: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
                    986: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
                    987: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
                    988: improve it.
1.32      deraadt   989: <p>
1.31      deraadt   990:
1.201     deraadt   991: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216     jose      992: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132     louis     993: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
                    994: &quot;Birds Of a Feather&quot; session at the <a
                    995: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
                    996: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33      niklas    997: <p>
1.236     jose      998: </ul>
1.33      niklas    999:
1.132     louis    1000: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36      niklas   1001:
1.236     jose     1002: <ul>
1.216     jose     1003: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
                   1004: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1005: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216     jose     1006: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132     louis    1007: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
                   1008: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
                   1009: government and military institutions.
1.45      jason    1010: <p>
                   1011:
1.216     jose     1012: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236     jose     1013: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216     jose     1014: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
                   1015: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1016: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
                   1017: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
                   1018: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
                   1019: There were many other OpenBSD
                   1020: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
                   1021: t-shirts.  His paper is available at:
                   1022:
                   1023: <ul>
                   1024: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236     jose     1025:     <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206     david    1026:     by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236     jose     1027:     <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1028:     <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1029: </ul>
                   1030: <p>
                   1031:
                   1032: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1033: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216     jose     1034: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis    1035: H&aring;kan Olsson &amp; Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
                   1036: <p>
                   1037:
                   1038: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1039: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux &amp; Open Source
1.216     jose     1040: Software '99</a></strong>,
                   1041: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132     louis    1042: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236     jose     1043: <a
                   1044: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132     louis    1045: <p>
                   1046:
                   1047: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1048: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     1049: 1999</a></strong>,
                   1050: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1051: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th.  Other OpenBSD
                   1052: developers from the east coast attended as well.
                   1053: <p>
                   1054:
1.236     jose     1055: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216     jose     1056: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
                   1057: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236     jose     1058: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
                   1059: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    1060: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability.  The tests
                   1061: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
                   1062: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
                   1063: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
                   1064: appropriately.  The results were presented later that fall at a
                   1065: conference in Stockholm.
                   1066: <p>
                   1067:
                   1068: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1069: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1070: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132     louis    1071: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
                   1072: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
                   1073: coordinated.
                   1074: <p>
                   1075:
                   1076: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1077: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216     jose     1078: Security</a></strong>,
                   1079: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1080: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
                   1081: shirts.  It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
                   1082: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
                   1083: significant security roles.
                   1084: <p>
                   1085:
                   1086: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1087: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216     jose     1088: meeting</a></strong>,
                   1089: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132     louis    1090: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
                   1091: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
                   1092: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166     miod     1093: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132     louis    1094: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
                   1095: <p>
1.45      jason    1096:
1.132     louis    1097: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1098: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1099: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1100: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
                   1101: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46      deraadt  1102: <p>
1.132     louis    1103:
1.236     jose     1104: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
                   1105: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216     jose     1106: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
                   1107: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106     jufi     1108: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46      deraadt  1109: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106     jufi     1110: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5.  (We distributed the
                   1111: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46      deraadt  1112: June.)
1.132     louis    1113: <br>
1.46      deraadt  1114: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132     louis    1115: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
                   1116:
1.46      deraadt  1117: <ul>
1.236     jose     1118: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66      deraadt  1119: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236     jose     1120:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     1121:     by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     1122:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1123:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1124: <br>
1.66      deraadt  1125: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236     jose     1126:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     1127:     by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236     jose     1128:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1129:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1130: <br>
1.66      deraadt  1131: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236     jose     1132:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     1133:     by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
                   1134:     Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236     jose     1135:     <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1136:     <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1137: <br>
1.66      deraadt  1138: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236     jose     1139:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     1140:     by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     1141:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1142:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1143: </ul>
1.66      deraadt  1144: <p>
1.46      deraadt  1145:
1.51      deraadt  1146: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1147: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1148: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1149: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
                   1150: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
                   1151: at a table donated by the Expo.  OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
                   1152: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
                   1153: to Linux.
1.51      deraadt  1154: <p>
                   1155:
1.53      jakob    1156: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1157: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216     jose     1158: meeting</a></strong>,
                   1159: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1160: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
                   1161: IPSEC developers.
1.53      jakob    1162: <p>
                   1163:
1.132     louis    1164: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1165: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216     jose     1166: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
                   1167: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis    1168: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
                   1169: society as well.  OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
                   1170: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
                   1171: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59      deraadt  1172: <p>
1.236     jose     1173: </ul>
1.59      deraadt  1174:
1.132     louis    1175: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59      deraadt  1176:
1.236     jose     1177: <ul>
1.132     louis    1178: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236     jose     1179: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
                   1180: tests &amp; seminar</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1181: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132     louis    1182: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236     jose     1183: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    1184: implementations who were tested for interoperability.  The tests were
                   1185: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
                   1186: specific.  We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
                   1187: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70      deraadt  1188: <p>
                   1189:
1.236     jose     1190: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
                   1191: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216     jose     1192: Conference</a></strong>,
                   1193: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132     louis    1194: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up.  By far, OpenBSD was the
                   1195: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
                   1196: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
                   1197: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
                   1198: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
                   1199: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
                   1200: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
                   1201: <br>
                   1202: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously  trust in OpenBSD
                   1203: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
                   1204: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72      ho       1205: <p>
                   1206:
1.73      deraadt  1207: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1208: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217     jose     1209: C&oacute;mputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1210: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132     louis    1211: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236     jose     1212: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132     louis    1213: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236     jose     1214: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131     jufi     1215: <p>
1.73      deraadt  1216:
1.236     jose     1217: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216     jose     1218: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132     louis    1219: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
                   1220: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
                   1221: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
                   1222: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
                   1223: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79      deraadt  1224: <p>
1.73      deraadt  1225:
1.80      deraadt  1226: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     1227: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
                   1228: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1229: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151     jsyn     1230: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132     louis    1231: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80      deraadt  1232: <p>
                   1233:
1.93      louis    1234: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1235: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     1236: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236     jose     1237: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1238: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
                   1239: Raymond and others.
1.93      louis    1240: <p>
                   1241:
1.216     jose     1242: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1243: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
                   1244: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1245: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1246: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
                   1247: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96      deraadt  1248: <p>
                   1249:
1.236     jose     1250: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
                   1251: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1252: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1253: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box.  It was involved
                   1254: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
                   1255: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
                   1256: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
                   1257: <br>
                   1258: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again).  The primates
1.236     jose     1259: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132     louis    1260: &quot;wire-frame&quot; OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
                   1261: 200 of them.  The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96      deraadt  1262: <p>
1.94      deraadt  1263:
1.236     jose     1264: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1265: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1266: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
                   1267: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
                   1268: team's process and the lessons the team learned.  The talk concentrated
                   1269: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
                   1270: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99      deraadt  1271: <p>
                   1272:
1.236     jose     1273: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
                   1274: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1275: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1276: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
                   1277: and normal tracks.  Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
                   1278: project offers.  Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
                   1279: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
                   1280: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
                   1281: <br>
                   1282: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3.  We sold many CDROMs.  The
                   1283: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101     wvdputte 1284: <p>
                   1285:
1.105     wvdputte 1286: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1287: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1288: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1289: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
                   1290: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
                   1291: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236     jose     1292: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105     wvdputte 1293: <br>
1.132     louis    1294: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
                   1295: <p>
1.236     jose     1296: </ul>
1.105     wvdputte 1297:
1.132     louis    1298: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107     deraadt  1299:
1.236     jose     1300: <ul>
1.113     deraadt  1301: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1302: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1303: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236     jose     1304: Niels held a
                   1305: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132     louis    1306: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
                   1307: possible solution.
1.113     deraadt  1308: <p>
1.132     louis    1309:
1.236     jose     1310: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216     jose     1311: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166     miod     1312: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236     jose     1313: OpenBSD 2.1.  Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132     louis    1314: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113     deraadt  1315: <p>
1.105     wvdputte 1316:
1.236     jose     1317: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
                   1318: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1319: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1320: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
                   1321: <br>
                   1322: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140     jufi     1323: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236     jose     1324: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118     deraadt  1325: <p>
                   1326:
1.125     deraadt  1327: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1328: <a
                   1329: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1330: Jan  6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    1331: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
                   1332: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236     jose     1333: </ul>
1.125     deraadt  1334:
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