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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>
1.324 mcbride 31: Ryan McBride will be presenting an overview of PF which
1.323 mcbride 32: discusses how its advanced features work together in some important
33: applications and compares PF with the other major commercial and open
1.324 mcbride 34: source firewalls.
35: <p>
36:
1.327 ! henning 37: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
! 38: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
! 39: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
! 40: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD, likely on the 3rd.
! 41: RIPE Meetings are open to everyone and provide an excellent opportunity
! 42: to take part in Internet policy discussions.
! 43: <p>
! 44:
1.324 mcbride 45: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
46: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
47: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
48: There will be a number of OpenBSD developers in attendance, including
49: Theo de Raadt and Ryan McBride. We'll have early access 3.7 CDs to sell, and
50: Ryan McBride may be presenting a talk on Network Stack Randomness: how it
51: protects against known and unknown attacks, and details of OpenBSDs
52: implementation.
1.323 mcbride 53: <p>
54:
1.302 mcbride 55: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1.303 mcbride 56: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1.302 mcbride 57: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
58: A number of OpenBSD developers will be presenting: Bob Beck on
59: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1.309 henning 60: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
61: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL.
1.302 mcbride 62: Expect to find other OpenBSD developers in attendance as well.
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1.152 jakob 80: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 82: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 83:
84: <ul>
1.317 henning 85: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
86: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
87: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 88: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 89: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 90: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 91: <p>
92:
1.312 deraadt 93: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
94: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
95: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 96: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
97: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 98: <p>
99:
1.319 saad 100: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
101: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
102: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
103: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
104: <p>
105:
1.310 mickey 106: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
107: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
108: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 109: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 110: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
111: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 112: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 113: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 114: <p>
1.312 deraadt 115:
1.308 deraadt 116: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
117: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
118: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
119: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 120: talks. Topics included
121: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 122: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
123: OpenBGPD, and pf.
124: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 125: <p>
126:
1.304 saad 127: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
128: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
129: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
130: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
131: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 132: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 133: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.316 mbalmer 134: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink, Olivier Cherrier,
135: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 136: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
137: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
138: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
139: <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>
140: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
141: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
142: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
143: <p>
1.301 saad 144: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
145: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
146: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
147: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
148: <p>
149: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
150: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
151: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
152: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
153: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
154: <p>
1.293 saad 155: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
156: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
157: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
158: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
159: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
160: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 161: french translation team.<br>
162: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
163: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
164: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
165: available.<br>
166: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 167: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
168: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
169: <p>
1.296 mcbride 170: </ul>
1.293 saad 171:
1.296 mcbride 172: <h3>2004</h3>
173:
174: <ul>
1.287 henning 175: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
176: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
177: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
178: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
179: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
180: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 181: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 182: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
183: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
184: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
185: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
186: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
187: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 188: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 189: driver.
190: <p>
1.248 deraadt 191:
1.286 kevlo 192: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
193: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
194: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
195: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
196: <p>
197:
1.285 deraadt 198: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
199: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
200: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
201: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
202: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
203: <p>
204:
1.283 saad 205: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
206: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
207: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
208: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
209: meeting of the
210: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
211: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 212: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 213: <p>
214:
1.282 henning 215: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
216: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
217: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
218: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
219: two days, on bgpd
220: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
221: ntpd
222: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
223: and signal handlers
224: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
225: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
226: <p>
227:
1.275 deraadt 228: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
229: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
230: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
231: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
232: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
233: Room B-02 of the
234: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
235: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
236: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
237: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
238: The talk was also given the following day at the
239: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
240: <p>
241:
1.271 henning 242: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
243: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
244: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 245: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
246: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 247: Henning gave a talk
1.272 henning 248: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
249: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 250: <p>
251:
252: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
253: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
254: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 255: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
256: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 257: <p>
258:
1.276 deraadt 259: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 260: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
261: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
262: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
263: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
264: <p>
265:
266: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 267: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
268: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
269: <p>
270:
271: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
272: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
273: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
274: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
275: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
276: <p>
277:
1.268 krw 278: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
279: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
280: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
281: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
282: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
283: <p>
284:
285: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
286: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
287: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
288: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
289: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
290: <p>
291:
292: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
293: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
294: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
295: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
296: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
297: <p>
298:
1.265 wvdputte 299: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
300: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
301: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
302: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
303: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
304: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
305: event."
306: <br>
307: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
308: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
309: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
310: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
311: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
312: <br>
313: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
314: <p>
315:
1.262 henning 316: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
317: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
318: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
319: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
320: Henning's slides from his talks about
321: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
322: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
323: are available.
324: <p>
325:
1.261 deraadt 326: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 327: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 328: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
329: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
330: newly extended version of the
331: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
332: For more information, see this
333: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
334: ComputerWorld article</a>.
335: <p>
336:
337:
1.257 saad 338: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
339: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
340: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
341: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
342: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
346: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
347: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
348: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
349: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
350: <p>
351:
1.256 mickey 352: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
353: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
354: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
355: session.
356: <p>
357:
1.254 xsa 358: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 359: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 360: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
361: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
362: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
363: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
364: a basic talk about pf.
365: <p>
366:
1.248 deraadt 367: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 368: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 369: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
370: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 371: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
372: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
373: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 374: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
375: <p>
376:
1.247 canacar 377: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
378: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
379: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
380: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
381: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
382: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
383: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
384: projects were discussed.<br>
385: You can view the
1.281 canacar 386: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 387: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 388: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 389: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
390: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
391: <p>
392:
1.242 henning 393: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
394: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
395: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 396: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
397: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
398: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
399: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
400: and systrace
1.263 saad 401: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 402: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
403: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
404: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 405: <p>
406:
1.240 espie 407: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
408: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
409: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
410: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
411: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
412: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
413: <p>
414:
415: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
416: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
417: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
418: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
419: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
420: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
421: <p>
422: </ul>
423:
1.188 henning 424: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 425:
426: <ul>
1.232 jose 427: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
428: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
429: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
430: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
431: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 432: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 433: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 434: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 435: <p>
1.232 jose 436:
1.228 jose 437: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 438: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 439: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
440: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 441: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
442: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 443: with OpenBSD PF.
444: <p>
445:
446: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
447: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
448: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
449: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
450: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 451: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
452: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
453: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
454: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 455: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 456: slides in PDF format </a>
457: (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 458: <p>
459:
1.227 jose 460: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
461: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
462: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
463: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
464: <p>
465:
466: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
467: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
468: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 469: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 470: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 471: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
472: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 473: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 474: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 475: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 476: in Internet worm defenses.
477: <p>
478:
1.224 miod 479: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
480: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
481: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
482: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
483: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
484: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
485: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
486: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
487: OpenBSD.
488: <p>
489:
490: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
491: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
492: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
493: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
494: <p>
495:
496: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
497: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
498: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
499: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
500: <p>
501:
1.219 jose 502: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
503: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
504: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 505: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 506: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
507: <p>
508:
1.218 jose 509: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
510: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
511: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 512: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 513: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
514: <p>
515:
1.214 henning 516: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
517: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 518: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 519: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
520: <p>
521:
1.213 jose 522: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
523: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 524: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 525: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 526: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
527: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
528: <p>
529:
1.211 jose 530: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
531: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 532: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 533: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
534: <p>
535:
536: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
537: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 538: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 539: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 540: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
541: <p>
542:
1.209 wvdputte 543: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
544: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 545: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 546: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
547: <p>
1.195 deraadt 548:
1.202 jason 549: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 550: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 551: Conference</a></strong>,
552: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 553: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
554: <ul>
1.216 jose 555: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 556: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 557: Angelos D. Keromytis,
558: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 559: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 560: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
561: </ul>
562: <p>
563:
1.201 deraadt 564: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 565: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 566: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
567: session.
568: <p>
569:
1.216 jose 570: <li><strong>
571: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
572: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 573: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
574: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
575: <p>
576:
1.216 jose 577: <li><strong>
578: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
579: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 580: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 581: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 582: <p>
583:
1.216 jose 584: <li><strong>
585: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
586: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 587: 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 588: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 589: <p>
590:
1.216 jose 591: <li><strong>
592: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
593: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 594: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
595: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 596: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
597: user groups.
598: <p>
599:
1.236 jose 600: <li><strong>
601: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 602: Group</a></strong>,
603: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 604: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
605: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
606: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
607: <p>
608:
1.216 jose 609: <li><strong>
610: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
611: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 612: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 613: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 614: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
615: <p>
616:
1.216 jose 617: <li><strong>
618: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
619: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 620: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
621: CD sets and Tshirts.
622: <p>
1.236 jose 623: </ul>
1.185 miod 624:
1.161 millert 625: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 626:
627: <ul>
628: <li><strong>
629: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 630: Congress</a></strong>,
631: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 632: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
633: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 634: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
635: <p>
1.177 jason 636:
1.216 jose 637: <li><strong>
638: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
639: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 640: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 641: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 642: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
643: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 644: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 645: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
646: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 647: <p>
1.178 pb 648:
1.216 jose 649: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 650: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 651: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
652: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 653: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
654: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
655: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
656: <p>
657:
1.216 jose 658: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 659: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
660: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
661: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
662: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
663: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
664: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
665: <p>
666:
667: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 668: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
669: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 670: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
671: Niels Provos presented his
672: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
673: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 674: <p>
1.172 miod 675:
1.216 jose 676: <li><strong>
677: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
678: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 679: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
680: <p>
681:
1.216 jose 682: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 683: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 684: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
685: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 686: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
687: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 688: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 689: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 690: <p>
1.168 miod 691:
1.216 jose 692: <li><strong>
693: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
694: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 695: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 696: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
697: are available.
1.161 millert 698: <p>
699:
1.216 jose 700: <li><strong>
701: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
702: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 703: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
704: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
705: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
706: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
707: <p>
708:
1.216 jose 709: <li><strong>
710: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
711: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 712: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
713: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
714: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
715: <p>
1.236 jose 716: </ul>
1.164 millert 717:
1.152 jakob 718: <h3>2001</h3>
719:
1.236 jose 720: <ul>
1.216 jose 721: <li><strong>
722: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
723: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 724: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
725: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
726: <p>
727:
1.216 jose 728: <li><strong>
729: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
730: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 731: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
732: <p>
733:
1.158 deraadt 734: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 735: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 736: 2001</a></strong>,
737: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 738: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
739: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
740: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
741: <p>
742:
1.216 jose 743: <li><strong>
744: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
745: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 746: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
747: <p>
748:
1.201 deraadt 749: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 750: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 751: Jakob and Itojun were there.
752: <p>
1.158 deraadt 753:
1.150 wvdputte 754: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 755: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 756: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 757: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
758: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
759: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 760: <p>
1.137 aaron 761:
762: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 763: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 764: Conference</a></strong>,
765: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 766: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
767: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
768: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
769: <p>
770:
771: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 772: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 773: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 774: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
775: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
776: <p>
777:
778: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 779: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 780: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
781: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 782: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
783: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
784: <p>
785:
786: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 787: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 788: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
789: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 790: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
791: <p>
792:
793: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 794: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 795: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 796: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 797: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
798: security community.
799: <p>
800:
801: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 802: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 803: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
804: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 805: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
806: <p>
807:
808: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 809: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 810: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 811: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 812: <p>
1.236 jose 813: </ul>
1.137 aaron 814:
1.132 louis 815: <h3>2000</h3>
816:
1.236 jose 817: <ul>
1.132 louis 818: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 819: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 820: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
821: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 822: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
823: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
824: <p>
825:
826: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 827: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 828: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 829: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
830: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
831: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
832: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 833: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 834: <p>
835:
836: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 837: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 838: 2000</a></strong>,
839: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 840: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 841: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 842: <p>
1.4 millert 843:
1.132 louis 844: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 845: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 846: Summit</a></strong>,
847: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 848: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 849: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
850: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
851:
852: <ul>
1.236 jose 853: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 854: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 855: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
856: </ul>
1.4 millert 857: <p>
1.132 louis 858:
1.7 deraadt 859: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 860: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 861: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 862: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
863: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 864: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 865: mind (drinks afterwards).
866: <p>
867:
1.216 jose 868: <li><strong>
869: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
870: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 871: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
872: questions.
1.32 deraadt 873: <p>
1.1 deraadt 874:
1.132 louis 875: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 876: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 877: Revolution</a></strong>,
878: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 879: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
880: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 881: <p>
882:
1.132 louis 883: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 884: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
885: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 886: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
887: <ul>
1.236 jose 888: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 889: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 890: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 891: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
892: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
893: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 894: <p>
1.132 louis 895:
1.10 provos 896: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 897: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 898: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 899: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 900: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
901: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
902: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
903: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
904: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
905: <br>
906: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
907: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
908: <p>
1.32 deraadt 909:
1.132 louis 910: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 911: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 912: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
913: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
914: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 915: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
916: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
917: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
918: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
919: and spoke about
920: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 921: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 922: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 923: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 924: <p>
1.132 louis 925:
1.6 deraadt 926: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 927: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 928: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 929: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
930: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
931: <br>
932: Christian Weisgerber gave a
933: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
934: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 935: <p>
1.1 deraadt 936:
1.216 jose 937: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 938: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 939: Conference.</a></strong>,
940: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 941: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
942: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
943: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
944: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
945: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 946: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 947: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
948: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
949: <ul>
950:
951: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
952: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 953: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 954: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
955: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
956:
957: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
958: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 959: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 960: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
961: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 962:
1.132 louis 963: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
964: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 965: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 966: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 967: <p>
968:
1.132 louis 969: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 970: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 971: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
972: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 973: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
974: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
975: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 976: <p>
1.2 deraadt 977:
1.132 louis 978: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 979: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
980: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 981: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
982: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
983: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
984: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
985: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 986: <p>
1.11 jkatz 987:
1.17 deraadt 988: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 989: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
990: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 991: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
992: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
993: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
994: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
995: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 996: <p>
1.17 deraadt 997:
1.23 niklas 998: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 999: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1000: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1001: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1002: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1003: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1004: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1005: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1006: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1007: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1008: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1009:
1.132 louis 1010: <li><strong>
1011: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1012: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1013: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1014: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1015: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1016: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1017: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1018: <p>
1.23 niklas 1019:
1.31 deraadt 1020: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1021: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1022: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1023: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1024: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1025: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1026: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1027: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1028: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1029: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1030:
1.201 deraadt 1031: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1032: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1033: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1034: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1035: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1036: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1037: <p>
1.236 jose 1038: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1039:
1.132 louis 1040: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1041:
1.236 jose 1042: <ul>
1.216 jose 1043: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1044: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1045: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1046: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 1047: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
1048: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1049: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1050: <p>
1051:
1.216 jose 1052: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1053: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1054: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1055: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1056: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1057: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1058: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1059: There were many other OpenBSD
1060: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1061: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
1062:
1063: <ul>
1064: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1065: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1066: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1067: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1068: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1069: </ul>
1070: <p>
1071:
1072: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1073: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1074: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1075: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1076: <p>
1077:
1078: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1079: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1080: Software '99</a></strong>,
1081: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1082: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1083: <a
1084: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1085: <p>
1086:
1087: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1088: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1089: 1999</a></strong>,
1090: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1091: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1092: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1093: <p>
1094:
1.236 jose 1095: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1096: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1097: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1098: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1099: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1100: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1101: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1102: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1103: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1104: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1105: conference in Stockholm.
1106: <p>
1107:
1108: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1109: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1110: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1111: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1112: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1113: coordinated.
1114: <p>
1115:
1116: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1117: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1118: Security</a></strong>,
1119: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1120: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1121: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1122: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1123: significant security roles.
1124: <p>
1125:
1126: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1127: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1128: meeting</a></strong>,
1129: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1130: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1131: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1132: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1133: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1134: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1135: <p>
1.45 jason 1136:
1.132 louis 1137: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1138: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1139: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1140: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1141: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1142: <p>
1.132 louis 1143:
1.236 jose 1144: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1145: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1146: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1147: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1148: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1149: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1150: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1151: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1152: June.)
1.132 louis 1153: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1154: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1155: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1156:
1.46 deraadt 1157: <ul>
1.236 jose 1158: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 1159: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1160: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1161: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1162: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1163: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1164: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1165: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1166: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1167: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1168: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1169: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1170: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1171: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1172: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1173: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1174: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1175: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1176: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1177: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1178: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1179: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1180: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1181: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1182: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1183: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1184: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1185:
1.51 deraadt 1186: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1187: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1188: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1189: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1190: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1191: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1192: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1193: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1194: <p>
1195:
1.53 jakob 1196: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1197: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1198: meeting</a></strong>,
1199: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1200: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1201: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1202: <p>
1203:
1.132 louis 1204: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1205: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1206: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1207: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1208: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1209: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1210: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1211: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1212: <p>
1.236 jose 1213: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1214:
1.132 louis 1215: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1216:
1.236 jose 1217: <ul>
1.132 louis 1218: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1219: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1220: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1221: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1222: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 1223: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1224: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1225: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1226: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1227: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1228: <p>
1229:
1.236 jose 1230: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1231: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1232: Conference</a></strong>,
1233: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1234: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1235: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1236: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1237: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1238: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1239: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1240: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1241: <br>
1242: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1243: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1244: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1245: <p>
1246:
1.73 deraadt 1247: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1248: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1249: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1250: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1251: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1252: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1253: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1254: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1255: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1256:
1.236 jose 1257: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1258: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1259: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1260: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1261: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1262: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1263: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1264: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1265:
1.80 deraadt 1266: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1267: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1268: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1269: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1270: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1271: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1272: <p>
1273:
1.93 louis 1274: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1275: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1276: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1277: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1278: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1279: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1280: <p>
1281:
1.216 jose 1282: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1283: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1284: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1285: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1286: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1287: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1288: <p>
1289:
1.236 jose 1290: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1291: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1292: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1293: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1294: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1295: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1296: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1297: <br>
1298: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1299: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1300: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1301: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1302: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1303:
1.236 jose 1304: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1305: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1306: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1307: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1308: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1309: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1310: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1311: <p>
1312:
1.236 jose 1313: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1314: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1315: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1316: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1317: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1318: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1319: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1320: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1321: <br>
1322: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1323: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1324: <p>
1325:
1.105 wvdputte 1326: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1327: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1328: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1329: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1330: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1331: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1332: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1333: <br>
1.132 louis 1334: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1335: <p>
1.236 jose 1336: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1337:
1.132 louis 1338: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1339:
1.236 jose 1340: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1341: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1342: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1343: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1344: Niels held a
1345: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1346: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1347: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1348: <p>
1.132 louis 1349:
1.236 jose 1350: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1351: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1352: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1353: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1354: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1355: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1356:
1.236 jose 1357: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1358: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1359: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1360: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1361: <br>
1362: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1363: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1364: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1365: <p>
1366:
1.125 deraadt 1367: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1368: <a
1369: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1370: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1371: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1372: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1373: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1374:
1.1 deraadt 1375:
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1378: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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