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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>
1.323 ! mcbride 28: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
! 29: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
! 30: March 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
! 31: Ryan McBride will be presenting two talks: an overview of PF which
! 32: discusses how its advanced features work together in some important
! 33: applications and compares PF with the other major commercial and open
! 34: source firewalls, and a talk on OpenBSD's implementation of network
! 35: stack randomness and how this protects against known and unknown attacks.
! 36: <p>
! 37:
1.302 mcbride 38: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1.303 mcbride 39: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1.302 mcbride 40: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
41: A number of OpenBSD developers will be presenting: Bob Beck on
42: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1.309 henning 43: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
44: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL.
1.302 mcbride 45: Expect to find other OpenBSD developers in attendance as well.
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1.152 jakob 63: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 65: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 66:
67: <ul>
1.317 henning 68: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
69: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
70: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 71: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.317 henning 72: randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.<br>
1.318 henning 73: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 74: <p>
75:
1.312 deraadt 76: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
77: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
78: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 79: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
80: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 81: <p>
82:
1.319 saad 83: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
84: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
85: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
86: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
87: <p>
88:
1.310 mickey 89: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
90: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
91: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 92: Mickey gave a talk
93: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">(10.5MB audio)</a>
1.321 mickey 94: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 95: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 96: <p>
1.312 deraadt 97:
1.308 deraadt 98: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
99: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
100: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
101: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 102: talks. Topics included
103: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
104: introducing network randomness to increase security, OpenBGPD,
105: and pf. Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 106: <p>
107:
1.304 saad 108: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
109: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
110: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
111: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
112: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 113: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 114: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.316 mbalmer 115: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink, Olivier Cherrier,
116: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 117: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
118: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
119: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
120: <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>
121: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
122: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
123: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
124: <p>
1.301 saad 125: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
126: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
127: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
128: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
129: <p>
130: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
131: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
132: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
133: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
134: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
135: <p>
1.293 saad 136: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
137: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
138: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
139: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
140: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
141: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 142: french translation team.<br>
143: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
144: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
145: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
146: available.<br>
147: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 148: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
149: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
150: <p>
1.296 mcbride 151: </ul>
1.293 saad 152:
1.296 mcbride 153: <h3>2004</h3>
154:
155: <ul>
1.287 henning 156: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
157: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
158: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
159: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
160: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
161: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 162: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 163: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
164: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
165: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
166: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
167: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
168: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 169: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 170: driver.
171: <p>
1.248 deraadt 172:
1.286 kevlo 173: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
174: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
175: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
176: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
177: <p>
178:
1.285 deraadt 179: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
180: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
181: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
182: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
183: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
184: <p>
185:
1.283 saad 186: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
187: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
188: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
189: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
190: meeting of the
191: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
192: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 193: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 194: <p>
195:
1.282 henning 196: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
197: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
198: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
199: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
200: two days, on bgpd
201: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
202: ntpd
203: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
204: and signal handlers
205: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
206: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
207: <p>
208:
1.275 deraadt 209: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
210: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
211: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
212: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
213: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
214: Room B-02 of the
215: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
216: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
217: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
218: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
219: The talk was also given the following day at the
220: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
221: <p>
222:
1.271 henning 223: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
224: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
225: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 226: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
227: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 228: Henning gave a talk
1.272 henning 229: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
230: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 231: <p>
232:
233: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
234: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
235: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 236: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
237: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 238: <p>
239:
1.276 deraadt 240: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 241: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
242: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
243: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
244: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
245: <p>
246:
247: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 248: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
249: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
250: <p>
251:
252: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
253: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
254: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
255: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
256: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
257: <p>
258:
1.268 krw 259: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
260: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
261: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
262: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
263: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
264: <p>
265:
266: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
267: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
268: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
269: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
270: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
271: <p>
272:
273: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
274: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
275: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
276: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
277: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
278: <p>
279:
1.265 wvdputte 280: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
281: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
282: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
283: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
284: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
285: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
286: event."
287: <br>
288: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
289: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
290: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
291: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
292: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
293: <br>
294: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
295: <p>
296:
1.262 henning 297: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
298: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
299: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
300: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
301: Henning's slides from his talks about
302: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
303: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
304: are available.
305: <p>
306:
1.261 deraadt 307: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 308: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 309: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
310: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
311: newly extended version of the
312: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
313: For more information, see this
314: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
315: ComputerWorld article</a>.
316: <p>
317:
318:
1.257 saad 319: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
320: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
321: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
322: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
323: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
324: <p>
325:
326: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
327: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
328: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
329: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
330: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
331: <p>
332:
1.256 mickey 333: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
334: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
335: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
336: session.
337: <p>
338:
1.254 xsa 339: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 340: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 341: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
342: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
343: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
344: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
345: a basic talk about pf.
346: <p>
347:
1.248 deraadt 348: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 349: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 350: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
351: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 352: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
353: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
354: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 355: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
356: <p>
357:
1.247 canacar 358: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
359: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
360: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
361: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
362: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
363: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
364: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
365: projects were discussed.<br>
366: You can view the
1.281 canacar 367: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 368: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 369: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 370: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
371: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
372: <p>
373:
1.242 henning 374: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
375: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
376: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 377: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
378: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
379: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
380: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
381: and systrace
1.263 saad 382: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 383: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
384: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
385: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 386: <p>
387:
1.240 espie 388: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
389: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
390: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
391: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
392: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
393: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
394: <p>
395:
396: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
397: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
398: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
399: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
400: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
401: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
402: <p>
403: </ul>
404:
1.188 henning 405: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 406:
407: <ul>
1.232 jose 408: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
409: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
410: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
411: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
412: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 413: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 414: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 415: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 416: <p>
1.232 jose 417:
1.228 jose 418: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 419: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 420: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
421: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 422: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
423: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 424: with OpenBSD PF.
425: <p>
426:
427: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
428: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
429: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
430: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
431: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 432: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
433: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
434: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
435: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 436: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 437: slides in PDF format </a>
438: (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 439: <p>
440:
1.227 jose 441: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
442: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
443: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
444: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
445: <p>
446:
447: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
448: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
449: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 450: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 451: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 452: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
453: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 454: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 455: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 456: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 457: in Internet worm defenses.
458: <p>
459:
1.224 miod 460: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
461: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
462: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
463: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
464: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
465: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
466: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
467: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
468: OpenBSD.
469: <p>
470:
471: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
472: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
473: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
474: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
475: <p>
476:
477: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
478: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
479: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
480: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
481: <p>
482:
1.219 jose 483: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
484: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
485: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 486: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 487: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
488: <p>
489:
1.218 jose 490: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
491: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
492: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 493: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 494: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
495: <p>
496:
1.214 henning 497: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
498: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 499: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 500: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
501: <p>
502:
1.213 jose 503: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
504: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 505: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 506: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 507: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
508: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
509: <p>
510:
1.211 jose 511: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
512: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 513: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 514: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
515: <p>
516:
517: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
518: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 519: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 520: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 521: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
522: <p>
523:
1.209 wvdputte 524: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
525: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 526: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 527: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
528: <p>
1.195 deraadt 529:
1.202 jason 530: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 531: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 532: Conference</a></strong>,
533: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 534: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
535: <ul>
1.216 jose 536: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 537: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 538: Angelos D. Keromytis,
539: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 540: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 541: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
542: </ul>
543: <p>
544:
1.201 deraadt 545: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 546: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 547: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
548: session.
549: <p>
550:
1.216 jose 551: <li><strong>
552: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
553: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 554: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
555: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
556: <p>
557:
1.216 jose 558: <li><strong>
559: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
560: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 561: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 562: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 563: <p>
564:
1.216 jose 565: <li><strong>
566: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
567: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 568: 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 569: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 570: <p>
571:
1.216 jose 572: <li><strong>
573: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
574: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 575: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
576: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 577: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
578: user groups.
579: <p>
580:
1.236 jose 581: <li><strong>
582: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 583: Group</a></strong>,
584: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 585: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
586: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
587: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
588: <p>
589:
1.216 jose 590: <li><strong>
591: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
592: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 593: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 594: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 595: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
596: <p>
597:
1.216 jose 598: <li><strong>
599: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
600: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 601: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
602: CD sets and Tshirts.
603: <p>
1.236 jose 604: </ul>
1.185 miod 605:
1.161 millert 606: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 607:
608: <ul>
609: <li><strong>
610: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 611: Congress</a></strong>,
612: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 613: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
614: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 615: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
616: <p>
1.177 jason 617:
1.216 jose 618: <li><strong>
619: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
620: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 621: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 622: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 623: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
624: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 625: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 626: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
627: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 628: <p>
1.178 pb 629:
1.216 jose 630: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 631: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 632: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
633: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 634: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
635: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
636: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
637: <p>
638:
1.216 jose 639: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 640: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
641: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
642: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
643: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
644: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
645: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
646: <p>
647:
648: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 649: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
650: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 651: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
652: Niels Provos presented his
653: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
654: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 655: <p>
1.172 miod 656:
1.216 jose 657: <li><strong>
658: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
659: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 660: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
661: <p>
662:
1.216 jose 663: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 664: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 665: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
666: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 667: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
668: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 669: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 670: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 671: <p>
1.168 miod 672:
1.216 jose 673: <li><strong>
674: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
675: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 676: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 677: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
678: are available.
1.161 millert 679: <p>
680:
1.216 jose 681: <li><strong>
682: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
683: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 684: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
685: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
686: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
687: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
688: <p>
689:
1.216 jose 690: <li><strong>
691: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
692: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 693: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
694: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
695: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
696: <p>
1.236 jose 697: </ul>
1.164 millert 698:
1.152 jakob 699: <h3>2001</h3>
700:
1.236 jose 701: <ul>
1.216 jose 702: <li><strong>
703: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
704: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 705: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
706: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
707: <p>
708:
1.216 jose 709: <li><strong>
710: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
711: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 712: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
713: <p>
714:
1.158 deraadt 715: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 716: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 717: 2001</a></strong>,
718: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 719: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
720: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
721: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
722: <p>
723:
1.216 jose 724: <li><strong>
725: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
726: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 727: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
728: <p>
729:
1.201 deraadt 730: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 731: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 732: Jakob and Itojun were there.
733: <p>
1.158 deraadt 734:
1.150 wvdputte 735: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 736: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 737: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 738: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
739: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
740: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 741: <p>
1.137 aaron 742:
743: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 744: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 745: Conference</a></strong>,
746: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 747: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
748: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
749: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
750: <p>
751:
752: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 753: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 754: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 755: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
756: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
757: <p>
758:
759: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 760: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 761: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
762: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 763: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
764: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
765: <p>
766:
767: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 768: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 769: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
770: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 771: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
772: <p>
773:
774: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 775: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 776: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 777: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 778: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
779: security community.
780: <p>
781:
782: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 783: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 784: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
785: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 786: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
787: <p>
788:
789: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 790: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 791: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 792: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 793: <p>
1.236 jose 794: </ul>
1.137 aaron 795:
1.132 louis 796: <h3>2000</h3>
797:
1.236 jose 798: <ul>
1.132 louis 799: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 800: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 801: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
802: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 803: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
804: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
805: <p>
806:
807: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 808: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 809: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 810: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
811: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
812: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
813: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 814: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 815: <p>
816:
817: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 818: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 819: 2000</a></strong>,
820: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 821: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 822: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 823: <p>
1.4 millert 824:
1.132 louis 825: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 826: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 827: Summit</a></strong>,
828: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 829: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 830: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
831: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
832:
833: <ul>
1.236 jose 834: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 835: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 836: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
837: </ul>
1.4 millert 838: <p>
1.132 louis 839:
1.7 deraadt 840: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 841: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 842: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 843: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
844: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 845: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 846: mind (drinks afterwards).
847: <p>
848:
1.216 jose 849: <li><strong>
850: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
851: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 852: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
853: questions.
1.32 deraadt 854: <p>
1.1 deraadt 855:
1.132 louis 856: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 857: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 858: Revolution</a></strong>,
859: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 860: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
861: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 862: <p>
863:
1.132 louis 864: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 865: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
866: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 867: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
868: <ul>
1.236 jose 869: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 870: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 871: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 872: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
873: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
874: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 875: <p>
1.132 louis 876:
1.10 provos 877: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 878: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 879: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 880: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 881: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
882: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
883: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
884: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
885: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
886: <br>
887: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
888: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
889: <p>
1.32 deraadt 890:
1.132 louis 891: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 892: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 893: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
894: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
895: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 896: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
897: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
898: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
899: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
900: and spoke about
901: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 902: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 903: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 904: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 905: <p>
1.132 louis 906:
1.6 deraadt 907: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 908: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 909: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 910: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
911: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
912: <br>
913: Christian Weisgerber gave a
914: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
915: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 916: <p>
1.1 deraadt 917:
1.216 jose 918: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 919: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 920: Conference.</a></strong>,
921: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 922: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
923: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
924: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
925: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
926: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 927: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 928: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
929: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
930: <ul>
931:
932: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
933: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 934: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 935: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
936: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
937:
938: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
939: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 940: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 941: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
942: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 943:
1.132 louis 944: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
945: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 946: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 947: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 948: <p>
949:
1.132 louis 950: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 951: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 952: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
953: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 954: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
955: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
956: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 957: <p>
1.2 deraadt 958:
1.132 louis 959: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 960: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
961: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 962: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
963: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
964: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
965: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
966: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 967: <p>
1.11 jkatz 968:
1.17 deraadt 969: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 970: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
971: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 972: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
973: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
974: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
975: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
976: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 977: <p>
1.17 deraadt 978:
1.23 niklas 979: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 980: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
981: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 982: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
983: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
984: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 985: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 986: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
987: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
988: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 989: <p>
1.25 deraadt 990:
1.132 louis 991: <li><strong>
992: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 993: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
994: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 995: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 996: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
997: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
998: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 999: <p>
1.23 niklas 1000:
1.31 deraadt 1001: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1002: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1003: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1004: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1005: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1006: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1007: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1008: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1009: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1010: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1011:
1.201 deraadt 1012: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1013: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1014: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1015: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1016: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1017: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1018: <p>
1.236 jose 1019: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1020:
1.132 louis 1021: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1022:
1.236 jose 1023: <ul>
1.216 jose 1024: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1025: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1026: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1027: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 1028: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
1029: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1030: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1031: <p>
1032:
1.216 jose 1033: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1034: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1035: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1036: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1037: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1038: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1039: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1040: There were many other OpenBSD
1041: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1042: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
1043:
1044: <ul>
1045: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1046: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1047: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1048: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1049: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1050: </ul>
1051: <p>
1052:
1053: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1054: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1055: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1056: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1057: <p>
1058:
1059: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1060: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1061: Software '99</a></strong>,
1062: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1063: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1064: <a
1065: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1066: <p>
1067:
1068: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1069: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1070: 1999</a></strong>,
1071: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1072: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1073: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1074: <p>
1075:
1.236 jose 1076: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1077: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1078: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1079: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1080: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1081: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1082: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1083: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1084: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1085: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1086: conference in Stockholm.
1087: <p>
1088:
1089: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1090: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1091: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1092: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1093: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1094: coordinated.
1095: <p>
1096:
1097: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1098: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1099: Security</a></strong>,
1100: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1101: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1102: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1103: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1104: significant security roles.
1105: <p>
1106:
1107: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1108: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1109: meeting</a></strong>,
1110: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1111: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1112: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1113: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1114: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1115: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1116: <p>
1.45 jason 1117:
1.132 louis 1118: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1119: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1120: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1121: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1122: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1123: <p>
1.132 louis 1124:
1.236 jose 1125: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1126: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1127: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1128: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1129: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1130: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1131: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1132: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1133: June.)
1.132 louis 1134: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1135: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1136: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1137:
1.46 deraadt 1138: <ul>
1.236 jose 1139: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 1140: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1141: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1142: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1143: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1144: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1145: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1146: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1147: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1148: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1149: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1150: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1151: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1152: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1153: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1154: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1155: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1156: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1157: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1158: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1159: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1160: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1161: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1162: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1163: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1164: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1165: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1166:
1.51 deraadt 1167: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1168: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1169: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1170: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1171: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1172: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1173: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1174: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1175: <p>
1176:
1.53 jakob 1177: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1178: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1179: meeting</a></strong>,
1180: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1181: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1182: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1183: <p>
1184:
1.132 louis 1185: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1186: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1187: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1188: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1189: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1190: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1191: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1192: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1193: <p>
1.236 jose 1194: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1195:
1.132 louis 1196: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1197:
1.236 jose 1198: <ul>
1.132 louis 1199: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1200: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1201: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1202: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1203: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 1204: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1205: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1206: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1207: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1208: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1209: <p>
1210:
1.236 jose 1211: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1212: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1213: Conference</a></strong>,
1214: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1215: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1216: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1217: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1218: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1219: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1220: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1221: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1222: <br>
1223: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1224: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1225: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1226: <p>
1227:
1.73 deraadt 1228: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1229: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1230: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1231: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1232: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1233: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1234: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1235: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1236: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1237:
1.236 jose 1238: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1239: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1240: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1241: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1242: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1243: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1244: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1245: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1246:
1.80 deraadt 1247: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1248: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1249: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1250: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1251: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1252: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1253: <p>
1254:
1.93 louis 1255: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1256: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1257: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1258: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1259: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1260: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1261: <p>
1262:
1.216 jose 1263: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1264: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1265: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1266: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1267: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1268: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1269: <p>
1270:
1.236 jose 1271: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1272: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1273: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1274: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1275: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1276: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1277: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1278: <br>
1279: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1280: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1281: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1282: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1283: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1284:
1.236 jose 1285: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1286: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1287: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1288: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1289: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1290: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1291: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1292: <p>
1293:
1.236 jose 1294: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1295: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1296: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1297: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1298: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1299: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1300: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1301: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1302: <br>
1303: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1304: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1305: <p>
1306:
1.105 wvdputte 1307: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1308: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1309: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1310: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1311: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1312: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1313: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1314: <br>
1.132 louis 1315: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1316: <p>
1.236 jose 1317: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1318:
1.132 louis 1319: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1320:
1.236 jose 1321: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1322: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1323: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1324: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1325: Niels held a
1326: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1327: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1328: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1329: <p>
1.132 louis 1330:
1.236 jose 1331: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1332: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1333: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1334: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1335: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1336: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1337:
1.236 jose 1338: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1339: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1340: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1341: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1342: <br>
1343: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1344: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1345: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1346: <p>
1347:
1.125 deraadt 1348: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1349: <a
1350: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1351: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1352: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1353: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1354: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1355:
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