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                     16: <h2>Conferences and other Events.</h2>
1.8       deraadt    17: <hr>
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1.13      deraadt    19: <h2>Future events:</h2>
                     20: <ul>
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                     22: <p>
                     23: <li><strong>
1.24      niklas     24: <a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>
                     25: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests & seminar
1.32    ! deraadt    26: December 14, 1998. Stockholm, Sweden.  (in swedish)</a></strong><p>
1.24      niklas     27: OpenBSD will be represented as one of about a dozen IPsec implementations
                     28: who are going to be tested for interoperability.
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                     30: <p>
                     31: <li><strong>
1.13      deraadt    32: <a href=http://www.europen.se/NordU99>
                     33: NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
1.32    ! deraadt    34: February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><p>
1.13      deraadt    35: OpenBSD team members will surely be at this conference.
                     36:
                     37: <p>
                     38: <li><strong>
                     39: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
                     40: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.32    ! deraadt    41: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><p>
1.13      deraadt    42: OpenBSD team members will surely be at this conference.
1.32    ! deraadt    43: Some OpenBSD developers are presenting papers in the Freenix track.
1.13      deraadt    44:
                     45: <p>
                     46: <li><strong>
                     47: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
                     48: Usenix Security.
1.32    ! deraadt    49: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><p>
1.13      deraadt    50: OpenBSD team members will surely be at this conference.
                     51:
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                     53:
1.8       deraadt    54: <h2>Past events:</h2>
1.1       deraadt    55: <ul>
                     56:
1.13      deraadt    57: <p>
1.6       deraadt    58: <li><strong>
                     59: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
                     60: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.32    ! deraadt    61: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><p>
        !            62: Theo de Raadt held a BOF about OpenBSD.
1.4       millert    63:
                     64: <p>
1.7       deraadt    65: <li><strong>
                     66: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
1.32    ! deraadt    67: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><p>
1.1       deraadt    68: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1.32    ! deraadt    69: <p>
1.1       deraadt    70: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.4       millert    71: good things about our stance on security...
1.1       deraadt    72:
                     73: <p>
1.32    ! deraadt    74: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><p>
1.6       deraadt    75: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstation running
                     76: OpenBSD 2.1.
1.1       deraadt    77:
                     78: <p>
1.10      provos     79: <li><strong>
                     80: <a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
1.32    ! deraadt    81: </strong><p>
1.10      provos     82: Niels held a
                     83: <a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
                     84: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
                     85: possible solution.
1.32    ! deraadt    86:
1.3       provos     87: <p>
1.6       deraadt    88: <li><strong>
                     89: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
1.32    ! deraadt    90: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><p>
1.2       deraadt    91: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically turned
1.6       deraadt    92: into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about subsystems
                     93: in which future problems may be encountered.
1.32    ! deraadt    94: <p>
1.6       deraadt    95: The terminal room PC's ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1.1       deraadt    96:
                     97: <p>
1.6       deraadt    98: <li><strong>
                     99: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
                    100: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.32    ! deraadt   101: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><p>
1.6       deraadt   102: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1.12      deraadt   103: and normal tracks.  Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
                    104: project offers.  Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
                    105: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1.32    ! deraadt   106: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
        !           107: <p>
1.12      deraadt   108: The terminal room PC's ran OpenBSD 2.3.  We sold many CDROMs.  The
                    109: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.2       deraadt   110:
                    111: <p>
1.6       deraadt   112: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
1.32    ! deraadt   113: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><p>
1.2       deraadt   114: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
                    115: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
                    116: team's process and the lessons the team learned.  The talk concentrated
                    117: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
                    118: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
                    119:
1.1       deraadt   120: <p>
1.6       deraadt   121: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org>
1.32    ! deraadt   122: Defcon VI. July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><p>
1.6       deraadt   123: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box.  It was involved
                    124: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
                    125: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1.32    ! deraadt   126: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
        !           127: <p>
1.6       deraadt   128: Almost 100 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again).  The primates at <a
1.32    ! deraadt   129: href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3 "wire-frame"
        !           130: OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost 200 of them.  The
1.6       deraadt   131: proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.2       deraadt   132:
1.1       deraadt   133: <p>
1.32    ! deraadt   134: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose, California, USA.</strong>
        !           135: <img align=right border=0 src=images/oraonline.gif alt="[ORA Logo]"></a><p>
1.11      jkatz     136: OpenBSD team members will be on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
                    137: other free software projects available as well as sell CDs and t-shirts.
                    138:
1.17      deraadt   139: <p>
                    140: <li><strong>
                    141: <a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
                    142: Reflections/Projections 1998
1.32    ! deraadt   143: October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><p>
1.17      deraadt   144: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1.21      pattonme  145: Raymond and others.
                    146:
                    147: <p>
                    148: <li><strong>
                    149: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">
1.32    ! deraadt   150: NCEE '98. October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><p>
1.21      pattonme  151: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
                    152: sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
1.28      espie     153: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.17      deraadt   154:
1.23      niklas    155: <p>
                    156: <li><strong>
                    157: <a href="http://www.netman.se/ipdagarna">
                    158: IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden.  (in swedish)
1.32    ! deraadt   159: </a></strong><p>
1.23      niklas    160: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
                    161: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
                    162: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1.25      deraadt   163: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1.32    ! deraadt   164: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
        !           165: <p>
        !           166: Isakmpd will be shipped with OpenBSD after 2.4 is released.
1.25      deraadt   167:
                    168: <p>
                    169: <li><strong>
1.26      wvdputte  170: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">
1.25      deraadt   171: DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
1.32    ! deraadt   172: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><p>
1.25      deraadt   173: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing.
1.23      niklas    174:
1.31      deraadt   175: <p>
                    176: <li><strong>
                    177: <a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>
                    178: LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration Conference
1.32    ! deraadt   179: December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><p>
        !           180: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up.  By far, OpenBSD was the
        !           181: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
        !           182: <p>
1.31      deraadt   183: Usenix donated us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.32    ! deraadt   184: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
        !           185: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
        !           186: <p>
        !           187: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
        !           188: <p>
1.31      deraadt   189: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines.  Obviously people's
                    190: trust in OpenBSD has increased, since numerous people who have not
                    191: used the Usenix terminal room (due to security problems that have come
                    192: from such use in the past) before were seen using the machines.
1.32    ! deraadt   193: <p>
1.31      deraadt   194: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
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