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1.236 jose 15: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
16: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
17: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
18: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 19: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 21: <hr>
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23: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 24:
1.287 henning 25: <h3>2005</h3>
1.236 jose 26:
27: <ul>
1.302 mcbride 28: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1.303 mcbride 29: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1.302 mcbride 30: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
31: A number of OpenBSD developers will be presenting: Bob Beck on
32: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1.309 henning 33: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
34: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL.
1.302 mcbride 35: Expect to find other OpenBSD developers in attendance as well.
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1.152 jakob 53: <h2>Past events:</h2>
54:
1.296 mcbride 55: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 56:
57: <ul>
1.317 henning 58: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
59: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
60: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 61: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.317 henning 62: randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.<br>
1.318 henning 63: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 64: <p>
65:
1.312 deraadt 66: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
67: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
68: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 ! deraadt 69: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
! 70: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 71: <p>
72:
1.319 saad 73: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
74: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
75: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
76: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
77: <p>
78:
1.310 mickey 79: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
80: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
81: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.313 martin 82: Mickey gave a talk about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
83: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 84: <p>
1.312 deraadt 85:
1.308 deraadt 86: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
87: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
88: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
89: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 ! deraadt 90: talks. Topics included
! 91: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
! 92: introducing network randomness to increase security, OpenBGPD,
! 93: and pf. Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 94: <p>
95:
1.304 saad 96: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
97: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
98: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
99: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
100: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 101: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 102: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.316 mbalmer 103: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink, Olivier Cherrier,
104: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 105: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
106: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
107: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
108: <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>
109: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
110: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
111: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
112: <p>
1.301 saad 113: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
114: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
115: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
116: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
117: <p>
118: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
119: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
120: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
121: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
122: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
123: <p>
1.293 saad 124: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
125: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
126: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
127: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
128: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
129: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 130: french translation team.<br>
131: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
132: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
133: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
134: available.<br>
135: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 136: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
137: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
138: <p>
1.296 mcbride 139: </ul>
1.293 saad 140:
1.296 mcbride 141: <h3>2004</h3>
142:
143: <ul>
1.287 henning 144: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
145: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
146: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
147: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
148: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
149: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 150: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 151: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
152: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
153: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
154: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
155: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
156: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 157: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 158: driver.
159: <p>
1.248 deraadt 160:
1.286 kevlo 161: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
162: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
163: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
164: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
165: <p>
166:
1.285 deraadt 167: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
168: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
169: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
170: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
171: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
172: <p>
173:
1.283 saad 174: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
175: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
176: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
177: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
178: meeting of the
179: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
180: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 181: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 182: <p>
183:
1.282 henning 184: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
185: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
186: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
187: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
188: two days, on bgpd
189: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
190: ntpd
191: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
192: and signal handlers
193: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
194: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
195: <p>
196:
1.275 deraadt 197: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
198: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
199: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
200: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
201: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
202: Room B-02 of the
203: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
204: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
205: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
206: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
207: The talk was also given the following day at the
208: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
209: <p>
210:
1.271 henning 211: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
212: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
213: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 214: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
215: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 216: Henning gave a talk
1.272 henning 217: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
218: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 219: <p>
220:
221: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
222: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
223: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 224: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
225: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 226: <p>
227:
1.276 deraadt 228: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 229: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
230: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
231: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
232: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
233: <p>
234:
235: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 236: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
237: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
238: <p>
239:
240: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
241: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
242: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
243: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
244: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
245: <p>
246:
1.268 krw 247: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
248: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
249: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
250: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
251: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
252: <p>
253:
254: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
255: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
256: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
257: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
258: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
259: <p>
260:
261: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
262: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
263: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
264: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
265: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
266: <p>
267:
1.265 wvdputte 268: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
269: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
270: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
271: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
272: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
273: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
274: event."
275: <br>
276: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
277: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
278: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
279: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
280: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
281: <br>
282: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
283: <p>
284:
1.262 henning 285: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
286: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
287: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
288: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
289: Henning's slides from his talks about
290: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
291: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
292: are available.
293: <p>
294:
1.261 deraadt 295: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 296: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 297: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
298: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
299: newly extended version of the
300: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
301: For more information, see this
302: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
303: ComputerWorld article</a>.
304: <p>
305:
306:
1.257 saad 307: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
308: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
309: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
310: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
311: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
312: <p>
313:
314: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
315: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
316: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
317: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
318: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
319: <p>
320:
1.256 mickey 321: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
322: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
323: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
324: session.
325: <p>
326:
1.254 xsa 327: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 328: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 329: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
330: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
331: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
332: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
333: a basic talk about pf.
334: <p>
335:
1.248 deraadt 336: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 337: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 338: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
339: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 340: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
341: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
342: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 343: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
344: <p>
345:
1.247 canacar 346: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
347: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
348: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
349: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
350: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
351: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
352: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
353: projects were discussed.<br>
354: You can view the
1.281 canacar 355: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 356: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 357: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 358: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
359: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
360: <p>
361:
1.242 henning 362: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
363: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
364: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 365: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
366: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
367: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
368: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
369: and systrace
1.263 saad 370: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 371: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
372: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
373: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 374: <p>
375:
1.240 espie 376: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
377: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
378: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
379: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
380: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
381: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
382: <p>
383:
384: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
385: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
386: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
387: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
388: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
389: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
390: <p>
391: </ul>
392:
1.188 henning 393: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 394:
395: <ul>
1.232 jose 396: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
397: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
398: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
399: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
400: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 401: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 402: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 403: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 404: <p>
1.232 jose 405:
1.228 jose 406: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 407: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 408: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
409: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 410: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
411: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 412: with OpenBSD PF.
413: <p>
414:
415: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
416: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
417: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
418: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
419: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 420: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
421: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
422: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
423: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 424: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 425: slides in PDF format </a>
426: (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 427: <p>
428:
1.227 jose 429: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
430: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
431: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
432: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
433: <p>
434:
435: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
436: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
437: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 438: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 439: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 440: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
441: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 442: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 443: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 444: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 445: in Internet worm defenses.
446: <p>
447:
1.224 miod 448: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
449: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
450: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
451: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
452: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
453: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
454: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
455: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
456: OpenBSD.
457: <p>
458:
459: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
460: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
461: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
462: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
463: <p>
464:
465: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
466: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
467: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
468: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
469: <p>
470:
1.219 jose 471: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
472: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
473: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 474: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 475: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
476: <p>
477:
1.218 jose 478: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
479: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
480: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 481: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 482: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
483: <p>
484:
1.214 henning 485: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
486: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 487: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 488: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
489: <p>
490:
1.213 jose 491: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
492: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 493: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 494: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 495: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
496: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
497: <p>
498:
1.211 jose 499: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
500: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 501: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 502: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
503: <p>
504:
505: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
506: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 507: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 508: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 509: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
510: <p>
511:
1.209 wvdputte 512: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
513: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 514: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 515: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
516: <p>
1.195 deraadt 517:
1.202 jason 518: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 519: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 520: Conference</a></strong>,
521: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 522: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
523: <ul>
1.216 jose 524: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 525: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 526: Angelos D. Keromytis,
527: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 528: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 529: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
530: </ul>
531: <p>
532:
1.201 deraadt 533: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 534: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 535: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
536: session.
537: <p>
538:
1.216 jose 539: <li><strong>
540: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
541: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 542: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
543: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
544: <p>
545:
1.216 jose 546: <li><strong>
547: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
548: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 549: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 550: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 551: <p>
552:
1.216 jose 553: <li><strong>
554: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
555: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 556: 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 557: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 558: <p>
559:
1.216 jose 560: <li><strong>
561: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
562: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 563: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
564: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 565: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
566: user groups.
567: <p>
568:
1.236 jose 569: <li><strong>
570: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 571: Group</a></strong>,
572: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 573: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
574: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
575: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
576: <p>
577:
1.216 jose 578: <li><strong>
579: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
580: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 581: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 582: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 583: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
584: <p>
585:
1.216 jose 586: <li><strong>
587: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
588: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 589: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
590: CD sets and Tshirts.
591: <p>
1.236 jose 592: </ul>
1.185 miod 593:
1.161 millert 594: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 595:
596: <ul>
597: <li><strong>
598: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 599: Congress</a></strong>,
600: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 601: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
602: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 603: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
604: <p>
1.177 jason 605:
1.216 jose 606: <li><strong>
607: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
608: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 609: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 610: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 611: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
612: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 613: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 614: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
615: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 616: <p>
1.178 pb 617:
1.216 jose 618: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 619: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 620: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
621: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 622: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
623: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
624: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
625: <p>
626:
1.216 jose 627: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 628: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
629: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
630: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
631: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
632: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
633: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
634: <p>
635:
636: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 637: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
638: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 639: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
640: Niels Provos presented his
641: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
642: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 643: <p>
1.172 miod 644:
1.216 jose 645: <li><strong>
646: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
647: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 648: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
649: <p>
650:
1.216 jose 651: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 652: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 653: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
654: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 655: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
656: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 657: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 658: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 659: <p>
1.168 miod 660:
1.216 jose 661: <li><strong>
662: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
663: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 664: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 665: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
666: are available.
1.161 millert 667: <p>
668:
1.216 jose 669: <li><strong>
670: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
671: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 672: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
673: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
674: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
675: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
676: <p>
677:
1.216 jose 678: <li><strong>
679: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
680: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 681: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
682: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
683: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
684: <p>
1.236 jose 685: </ul>
1.164 millert 686:
1.152 jakob 687: <h3>2001</h3>
688:
1.236 jose 689: <ul>
1.216 jose 690: <li><strong>
691: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
692: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 693: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
694: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
695: <p>
696:
1.216 jose 697: <li><strong>
698: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
699: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 700: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
701: <p>
702:
1.158 deraadt 703: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 704: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 705: 2001</a></strong>,
706: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 707: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
708: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
709: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
710: <p>
711:
1.216 jose 712: <li><strong>
713: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
714: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 715: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
716: <p>
717:
1.201 deraadt 718: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 719: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 720: Jakob and Itojun were there.
721: <p>
1.158 deraadt 722:
1.150 wvdputte 723: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 724: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 725: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 726: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
727: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
728: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 729: <p>
1.137 aaron 730:
731: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 732: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 733: Conference</a></strong>,
734: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 735: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
736: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
737: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
738: <p>
739:
740: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 741: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 742: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 743: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
744: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
745: <p>
746:
747: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 748: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 749: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
750: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 751: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
752: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
753: <p>
754:
755: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 756: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 757: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
758: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 759: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
760: <p>
761:
762: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 763: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 764: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 765: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 766: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
767: security community.
768: <p>
769:
770: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 771: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 772: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
773: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 774: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
775: <p>
776:
777: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 778: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 779: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 780: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 781: <p>
1.236 jose 782: </ul>
1.137 aaron 783:
1.132 louis 784: <h3>2000</h3>
785:
1.236 jose 786: <ul>
1.132 louis 787: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 788: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 789: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
790: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 791: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
792: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
793: <p>
794:
795: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 796: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 797: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 798: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
799: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
800: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
801: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 802: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 803: <p>
804:
805: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 806: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 807: 2000</a></strong>,
808: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 809: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 810: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 811: <p>
1.4 millert 812:
1.132 louis 813: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 814: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 815: Summit</a></strong>,
816: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 817: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 818: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
819: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
820:
821: <ul>
1.236 jose 822: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 823: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 824: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
825: </ul>
1.4 millert 826: <p>
1.132 louis 827:
1.7 deraadt 828: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 829: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 830: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 831: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
832: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 833: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 834: mind (drinks afterwards).
835: <p>
836:
1.216 jose 837: <li><strong>
838: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
839: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 840: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
841: questions.
1.32 deraadt 842: <p>
1.1 deraadt 843:
1.132 louis 844: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 845: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 846: Revolution</a></strong>,
847: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 848: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
849: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 850: <p>
851:
1.132 louis 852: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 853: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
854: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 855: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
856: <ul>
1.236 jose 857: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 858: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 859: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 860: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
861: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
862: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 863: <p>
1.132 louis 864:
1.10 provos 865: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 866: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 867: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 868: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 869: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
870: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
871: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
872: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
873: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
874: <br>
875: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
876: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
877: <p>
1.32 deraadt 878:
1.132 louis 879: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 880: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 881: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
882: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
883: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 884: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
885: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
886: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
887: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
888: and spoke about
889: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 890: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 891: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 892: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 893: <p>
1.132 louis 894:
1.6 deraadt 895: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 896: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 897: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 898: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
899: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
900: <br>
901: Christian Weisgerber gave a
902: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
903: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 904: <p>
1.1 deraadt 905:
1.216 jose 906: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 907: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 908: Conference.</a></strong>,
909: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 910: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
911: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
912: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
913: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
914: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 915: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 916: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
917: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
918: <ul>
919:
920: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
921: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 922: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 923: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
924: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
925:
926: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
927: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 928: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 929: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
930: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 931:
1.132 louis 932: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
933: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 934: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 935: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 936: <p>
937:
1.132 louis 938: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 939: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 940: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
941: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 942: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
943: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
944: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 945: <p>
1.2 deraadt 946:
1.132 louis 947: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 948: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
949: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 950: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
951: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
952: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
953: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
954: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 955: <p>
1.11 jkatz 956:
1.17 deraadt 957: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 958: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
959: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 960: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
961: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
962: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
963: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
964: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 965: <p>
1.17 deraadt 966:
1.23 niklas 967: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 968: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
969: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 970: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
971: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
972: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 973: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 974: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
975: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
976: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 977: <p>
1.25 deraadt 978:
1.132 louis 979: <li><strong>
980: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 981: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
982: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 983: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 984: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
985: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
986: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 987: <p>
1.23 niklas 988:
1.31 deraadt 989: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 990: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 991: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
992: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 993: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 994: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
995: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
996: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
997: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 998: <p>
1.31 deraadt 999:
1.201 deraadt 1000: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1001: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1002: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1003: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1004: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1005: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1006: <p>
1.236 jose 1007: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1008:
1.132 louis 1009: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1010:
1.236 jose 1011: <ul>
1.216 jose 1012: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1013: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1014: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1015: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 1016: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
1017: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1018: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1019: <p>
1020:
1.216 jose 1021: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1022: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1023: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1024: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1025: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1026: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1027: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1028: There were many other OpenBSD
1029: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1030: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
1031:
1032: <ul>
1033: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1034: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1035: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1036: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1037: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1038: </ul>
1039: <p>
1040:
1041: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1042: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1043: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1044: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1045: <p>
1046:
1047: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1048: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1049: Software '99</a></strong>,
1050: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1051: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1052: <a
1053: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1054: <p>
1055:
1056: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1057: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1058: 1999</a></strong>,
1059: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1060: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1061: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1062: <p>
1063:
1.236 jose 1064: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1065: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1066: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1067: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1068: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1069: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1070: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1071: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1072: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1073: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1074: conference in Stockholm.
1075: <p>
1076:
1077: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1078: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1079: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1080: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1081: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1082: coordinated.
1083: <p>
1084:
1085: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1086: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1087: Security</a></strong>,
1088: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1089: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1090: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1091: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1092: significant security roles.
1093: <p>
1094:
1095: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1096: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1097: meeting</a></strong>,
1098: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1099: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1100: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1101: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1102: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1103: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1104: <p>
1.45 jason 1105:
1.132 louis 1106: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1107: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1108: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1109: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1110: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1111: <p>
1.132 louis 1112:
1.236 jose 1113: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1114: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1115: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1116: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1117: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1118: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1119: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1120: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1121: June.)
1.132 louis 1122: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1123: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1124: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1125:
1.46 deraadt 1126: <ul>
1.236 jose 1127: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 1128: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1129: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1130: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1131: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1132: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1133: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1134: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1135: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1136: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1137: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1138: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1139: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1140: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1141: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1142: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1143: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1144: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1145: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1146: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1147: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1148: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1149: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1150: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1151: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1152: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1153: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1154:
1.51 deraadt 1155: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1156: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1157: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1158: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1159: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1160: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1161: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1162: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1163: <p>
1164:
1.53 jakob 1165: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1166: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1167: meeting</a></strong>,
1168: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1169: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1170: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1171: <p>
1172:
1.132 louis 1173: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1174: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1175: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1176: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1177: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1178: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1179: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1180: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1181: <p>
1.236 jose 1182: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1183:
1.132 louis 1184: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1185:
1.236 jose 1186: <ul>
1.132 louis 1187: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1188: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1189: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1190: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1191: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 1192: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1193: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1194: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1195: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1196: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1197: <p>
1198:
1.236 jose 1199: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1200: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1201: Conference</a></strong>,
1202: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1203: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1204: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1205: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1206: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1207: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1208: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1209: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1210: <br>
1211: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1212: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1213: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1214: <p>
1215:
1.73 deraadt 1216: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1217: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1218: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1219: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1220: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1221: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1222: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1223: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1224: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1225:
1.236 jose 1226: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1227: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1228: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1229: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1230: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1231: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1232: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1233: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1234:
1.80 deraadt 1235: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1236: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1237: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1238: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1239: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1240: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1241: <p>
1242:
1.93 louis 1243: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1244: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1245: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1246: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1247: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1248: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1249: <p>
1250:
1.216 jose 1251: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1252: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1253: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1254: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1255: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1256: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1257: <p>
1258:
1.236 jose 1259: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1260: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1261: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1262: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1263: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1264: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1265: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1266: <br>
1267: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1268: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1269: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1270: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1271: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1272:
1.236 jose 1273: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1274: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1275: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1276: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1277: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1278: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1279: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1280: <p>
1281:
1.236 jose 1282: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1283: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1284: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1285: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1286: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1287: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1288: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1289: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1290: <br>
1291: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1292: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1293: <p>
1294:
1.105 wvdputte 1295: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1296: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1297: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1298: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1299: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1300: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1301: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1302: <br>
1.132 louis 1303: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1304: <p>
1.236 jose 1305: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1306:
1.132 louis 1307: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1308:
1.236 jose 1309: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1310: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1311: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1312: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1313: Niels held a
1314: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1315: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1316: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1317: <p>
1.132 louis 1318:
1.236 jose 1319: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1320: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1321: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1322: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1323: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1324: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1325:
1.236 jose 1326: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1327: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1328: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1329: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1330: <br>
1331: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1332: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1333: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1334: <p>
1335:
1.125 deraadt 1336: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1337: <a
1338: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1339: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1340: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1341: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1342: </ul>
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