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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.
1.328 ! mcbride 63: <p>
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! 65: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
! 66: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
! 67: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
! 68: Ryan McBride will speak about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
! 69: A broad overview of PF's features will be presented, with special attention
! 70: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
! 71: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
! 72: <p>
! 73: The other major PF developers will also be in attendance and available to answer
! 74: questiongs: Bob Beck (Edmonton) who did spamd, Mike Frantzen (USA) who did the
! 75: state engine, Daniel Hartmeier (Switzerland) who started it all, Markus Friedl
! 76: (Germany) who helped develop the grammar, and Henning Brauer (Germany) who
! 77: integrated PF with ALTQ bandwidth shaping and pushed us to fix some early load
! 78: problems.
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1.152 jakob 96: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 98: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 99:
100: <ul>
1.317 henning 101: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
102: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
103: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 104: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 105: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 106: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 107: <p>
108:
1.312 deraadt 109: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
110: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
111: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 112: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
113: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 114: <p>
115:
1.319 saad 116: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
117: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
118: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
119: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
120: <p>
121:
1.310 mickey 122: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
123: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
124: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 125: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 126: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
127: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 128: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 129: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 130: <p>
1.312 deraadt 131:
1.308 deraadt 132: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
133: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
134: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
135: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 136: talks. Topics included
137: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 138: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
139: OpenBGPD, and pf.
140: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 141: <p>
142:
1.304 saad 143: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
144: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
145: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
146: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
147: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 148: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 149: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.316 mbalmer 150: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink, Olivier Cherrier,
151: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 152: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
153: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
154: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
155: <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>
156: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
157: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
158: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
159: <p>
1.301 saad 160: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
161: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
162: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
163: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
164: <p>
165: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
166: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
167: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
168: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
169: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
170: <p>
1.293 saad 171: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
172: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
173: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
174: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
175: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
176: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 177: french translation team.<br>
178: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
179: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
180: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
181: available.<br>
182: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 183: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
184: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
185: <p>
1.296 mcbride 186: </ul>
1.293 saad 187:
1.296 mcbride 188: <h3>2004</h3>
189:
190: <ul>
1.287 henning 191: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
192: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
193: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
194: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
195: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
196: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 197: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 198: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
199: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
200: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
201: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
202: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
203: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 204: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 205: driver.
206: <p>
1.248 deraadt 207:
1.286 kevlo 208: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
209: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
210: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
211: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
212: <p>
213:
1.285 deraadt 214: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
215: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
216: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
217: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
218: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
219: <p>
220:
1.283 saad 221: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
222: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
223: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
224: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
225: meeting of the
226: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
227: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 228: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 229: <p>
230:
1.282 henning 231: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
232: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
233: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
234: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
235: two days, on bgpd
236: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
237: ntpd
238: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
239: and signal handlers
240: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
241: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
242: <p>
243:
1.275 deraadt 244: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
245: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
246: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
247: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
248: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
249: Room B-02 of the
250: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
251: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
252: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
253: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
254: The talk was also given the following day at the
255: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
256: <p>
257:
1.271 henning 258: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
259: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
260: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 261: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
262: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 263: Henning gave a talk
1.272 henning 264: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
265: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 266: <p>
267:
268: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
269: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
270: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 271: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
272: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 273: <p>
274:
1.276 deraadt 275: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 276: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
277: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
278: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
279: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
280: <p>
281:
282: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 283: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
284: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
285: <p>
286:
287: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
288: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
289: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
290: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
291: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
292: <p>
293:
1.268 krw 294: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
295: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
296: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
297: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
298: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
299: <p>
300:
301: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
302: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
303: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
304: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
305: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
306: <p>
307:
308: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
309: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
310: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
311: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
312: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
313: <p>
314:
1.265 wvdputte 315: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
316: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
317: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
318: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
319: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
320: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
321: event."
322: <br>
323: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
324: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
325: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
326: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
327: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
328: <br>
329: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
330: <p>
331:
1.262 henning 332: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
333: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
334: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
335: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
336: Henning's slides from his talks about
337: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
338: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
339: are available.
340: <p>
341:
1.261 deraadt 342: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 343: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 344: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
345: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
346: newly extended version of the
347: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
348: For more information, see this
349: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
350: ComputerWorld article</a>.
351: <p>
352:
353:
1.257 saad 354: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
355: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
356: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
357: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
358: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
359: <p>
360:
361: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
362: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
363: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
364: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
365: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
366: <p>
367:
1.256 mickey 368: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
369: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
370: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
371: session.
372: <p>
373:
1.254 xsa 374: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 375: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 376: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
377: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
378: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
379: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
380: a basic talk about pf.
381: <p>
382:
1.248 deraadt 383: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 384: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 385: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
386: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 387: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
388: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
389: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 390: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
391: <p>
392:
1.247 canacar 393: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
394: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
395: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
396: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
397: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
398: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
399: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
400: projects were discussed.<br>
401: You can view the
1.281 canacar 402: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 403: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 404: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 405: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
406: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
407: <p>
408:
1.242 henning 409: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
410: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
411: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 412: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
413: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
414: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
415: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
416: and systrace
1.263 saad 417: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 418: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
419: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
420: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 421: <p>
422:
1.240 espie 423: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
424: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
425: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
426: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
427: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
428: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
429: <p>
430:
431: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
432: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
433: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
434: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
435: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
436: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
437: <p>
438: </ul>
439:
1.188 henning 440: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 441:
442: <ul>
1.232 jose 443: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
444: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
445: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
446: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
447: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 448: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 449: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 450: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 451: <p>
1.232 jose 452:
1.228 jose 453: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 454: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 455: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
456: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 457: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
458: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 459: with OpenBSD PF.
460: <p>
461:
462: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
463: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
464: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
465: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
466: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 467: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
468: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
469: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
470: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 471: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 472: slides in PDF format </a>
473: (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 474: <p>
475:
1.227 jose 476: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
477: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
478: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
479: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
480: <p>
481:
482: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
483: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
484: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 485: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 486: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 487: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
488: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 489: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 490: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 491: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 492: in Internet worm defenses.
493: <p>
494:
1.224 miod 495: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
496: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
497: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
498: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
499: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
500: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
501: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
502: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
503: OpenBSD.
504: <p>
505:
506: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
507: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
508: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
509: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
510: <p>
511:
512: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
513: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
514: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
515: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
516: <p>
517:
1.219 jose 518: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
519: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
520: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 521: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 522: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
523: <p>
524:
1.218 jose 525: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
526: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
527: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 528: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 529: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
530: <p>
531:
1.214 henning 532: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
533: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 534: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 535: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
536: <p>
537:
1.213 jose 538: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
539: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 540: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 541: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 542: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
543: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
544: <p>
545:
1.211 jose 546: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
547: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 548: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 549: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
550: <p>
551:
552: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
553: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 554: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 555: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 556: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
557: <p>
558:
1.209 wvdputte 559: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
560: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 561: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 562: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
563: <p>
1.195 deraadt 564:
1.202 jason 565: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 566: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 567: Conference</a></strong>,
568: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 569: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
570: <ul>
1.216 jose 571: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 572: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 573: Angelos D. Keromytis,
574: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 575: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 576: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
577: </ul>
578: <p>
579:
1.201 deraadt 580: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 581: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 582: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
583: session.
584: <p>
585:
1.216 jose 586: <li><strong>
587: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
588: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 589: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
590: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
591: <p>
592:
1.216 jose 593: <li><strong>
594: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
595: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 596: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 597: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 598: <p>
599:
1.216 jose 600: <li><strong>
601: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
602: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 603: 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 604: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 605: <p>
606:
1.216 jose 607: <li><strong>
608: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
609: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 610: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
611: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 612: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
613: user groups.
614: <p>
615:
1.236 jose 616: <li><strong>
617: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 618: Group</a></strong>,
619: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 620: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
621: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
622: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
623: <p>
624:
1.216 jose 625: <li><strong>
626: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
627: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 628: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 629: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 630: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
631: <p>
632:
1.216 jose 633: <li><strong>
634: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
635: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 636: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
637: CD sets and Tshirts.
638: <p>
1.236 jose 639: </ul>
1.185 miod 640:
1.161 millert 641: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 642:
643: <ul>
644: <li><strong>
645: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 646: Congress</a></strong>,
647: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 648: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
649: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 650: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
651: <p>
1.177 jason 652:
1.216 jose 653: <li><strong>
654: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
655: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 656: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 657: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 658: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
659: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 660: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 661: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
662: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 663: <p>
1.178 pb 664:
1.216 jose 665: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 666: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 667: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
668: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 669: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
670: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
671: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
672: <p>
673:
1.216 jose 674: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 675: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
676: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
677: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
678: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
679: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
680: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
681: <p>
682:
683: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 684: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
685: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 686: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
687: Niels Provos presented his
688: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
689: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 690: <p>
1.172 miod 691:
1.216 jose 692: <li><strong>
693: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
694: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 695: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
696: <p>
697:
1.216 jose 698: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 699: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 700: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
701: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 702: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
703: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 704: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 705: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 706: <p>
1.168 miod 707:
1.216 jose 708: <li><strong>
709: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
710: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 711: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 712: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
713: are available.
1.161 millert 714: <p>
715:
1.216 jose 716: <li><strong>
717: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
718: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 719: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
720: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
721: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
722: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
723: <p>
724:
1.216 jose 725: <li><strong>
726: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
727: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 728: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
729: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
730: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
731: <p>
1.236 jose 732: </ul>
1.164 millert 733:
1.152 jakob 734: <h3>2001</h3>
735:
1.236 jose 736: <ul>
1.216 jose 737: <li><strong>
738: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
739: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 740: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
741: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
742: <p>
743:
1.216 jose 744: <li><strong>
745: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
746: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 747: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
748: <p>
749:
1.158 deraadt 750: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 751: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 752: 2001</a></strong>,
753: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 754: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
755: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
756: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
757: <p>
758:
1.216 jose 759: <li><strong>
760: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
761: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 762: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
763: <p>
764:
1.201 deraadt 765: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 766: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 767: Jakob and Itojun were there.
768: <p>
1.158 deraadt 769:
1.150 wvdputte 770: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 771: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 772: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 773: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
774: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
775: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 776: <p>
1.137 aaron 777:
778: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 779: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 780: Conference</a></strong>,
781: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 782: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
783: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
784: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
785: <p>
786:
787: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 788: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 789: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 790: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
791: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
792: <p>
793:
794: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 795: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 796: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
797: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 798: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
799: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
800: <p>
801:
802: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 803: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 804: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
805: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 806: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
807: <p>
808:
809: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 810: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 811: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 812: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 813: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
814: security community.
815: <p>
816:
817: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 818: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 819: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
820: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 821: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
822: <p>
823:
824: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 825: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 826: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 827: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 828: <p>
1.236 jose 829: </ul>
1.137 aaron 830:
1.132 louis 831: <h3>2000</h3>
832:
1.236 jose 833: <ul>
1.132 louis 834: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 835: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 836: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
837: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 838: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
839: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
840: <p>
841:
842: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 843: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 844: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 845: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
846: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
847: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
848: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 849: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 850: <p>
851:
852: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 853: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 854: 2000</a></strong>,
855: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 856: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 857: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 858: <p>
1.4 millert 859:
1.132 louis 860: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 861: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 862: Summit</a></strong>,
863: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 864: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 865: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
866: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
867:
868: <ul>
1.236 jose 869: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 870: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 871: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
872: </ul>
1.4 millert 873: <p>
1.132 louis 874:
1.7 deraadt 875: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 876: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 877: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 878: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
879: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 880: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 881: mind (drinks afterwards).
882: <p>
883:
1.216 jose 884: <li><strong>
885: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
886: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 887: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
888: questions.
1.32 deraadt 889: <p>
1.1 deraadt 890:
1.132 louis 891: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 892: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 893: Revolution</a></strong>,
894: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 895: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
896: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 897: <p>
898:
1.132 louis 899: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 900: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
901: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 902: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
903: <ul>
1.236 jose 904: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 905: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 906: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 907: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
908: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
909: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 910: <p>
1.132 louis 911:
1.10 provos 912: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 913: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 914: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 915: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 916: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
917: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
918: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
919: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
920: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
921: <br>
922: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
923: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
924: <p>
1.32 deraadt 925:
1.132 louis 926: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 927: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 928: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
929: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
930: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 931: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
932: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
933: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
934: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
935: and spoke about
936: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 937: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 938: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 939: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 940: <p>
1.132 louis 941:
1.6 deraadt 942: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 943: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 944: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 945: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
946: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
947: <br>
948: Christian Weisgerber gave a
949: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
950: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 951: <p>
1.1 deraadt 952:
1.216 jose 953: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 954: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 955: Conference.</a></strong>,
956: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 957: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
958: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
959: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
960: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
961: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 962: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 963: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
964: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
965: <ul>
966:
967: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
968: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 969: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 970: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
971: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
972:
973: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
974: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 975: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 976: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
977: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 978:
1.132 louis 979: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
980: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 981: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 982: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 983: <p>
984:
1.132 louis 985: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 986: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 987: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
988: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 989: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
990: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
991: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 992: <p>
1.2 deraadt 993:
1.132 louis 994: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 995: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
996: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 997: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
998: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
999: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1000: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1001: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1002: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1003:
1.17 deraadt 1004: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1005: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1006: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1007: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1008: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1009: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1010: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1011: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1012: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1013:
1.23 niklas 1014: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1015: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1016: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1017: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1018: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1019: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1020: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1021: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1022: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1023: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1024: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1025:
1.132 louis 1026: <li><strong>
1027: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1028: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1029: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1030: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1031: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1032: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1033: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1034: <p>
1.23 niklas 1035:
1.31 deraadt 1036: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1037: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1038: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1039: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1040: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1041: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1042: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1043: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1044: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1045: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1046:
1.201 deraadt 1047: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1048: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1049: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1050: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1051: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1052: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1053: <p>
1.236 jose 1054: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1055:
1.132 louis 1056: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1057:
1.236 jose 1058: <ul>
1.216 jose 1059: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1060: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1061: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1062: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 1063: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
1064: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1065: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1066: <p>
1067:
1.216 jose 1068: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1069: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1070: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1071: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1072: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1073: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1074: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1075: There were many other OpenBSD
1076: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1077: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
1078:
1079: <ul>
1080: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1081: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1082: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1083: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1084: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1085: </ul>
1086: <p>
1087:
1088: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1089: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1090: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1091: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1092: <p>
1093:
1094: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1095: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1096: Software '99</a></strong>,
1097: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1098: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1099: <a
1100: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1101: <p>
1102:
1103: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1104: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1105: 1999</a></strong>,
1106: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1107: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1108: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1109: <p>
1110:
1.236 jose 1111: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1112: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1113: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1114: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1115: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1116: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1117: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1118: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1119: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1120: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1121: conference in Stockholm.
1122: <p>
1123:
1124: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1125: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1126: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1127: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1128: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1129: coordinated.
1130: <p>
1131:
1132: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1133: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1134: Security</a></strong>,
1135: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1136: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1137: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1138: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1139: significant security roles.
1140: <p>
1141:
1142: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1143: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1144: meeting</a></strong>,
1145: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1146: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1147: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1148: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1149: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1150: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1151: <p>
1.45 jason 1152:
1.132 louis 1153: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1154: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1155: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1156: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1157: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1158: <p>
1.132 louis 1159:
1.236 jose 1160: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1161: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1162: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1163: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1164: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1165: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1166: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1167: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1168: June.)
1.132 louis 1169: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1170: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1171: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1172:
1.46 deraadt 1173: <ul>
1.236 jose 1174: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 1175: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1176: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1177: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1178: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1179: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1180: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1181: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1182: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1183: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1184: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1185: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1186: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1187: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1188: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1189: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1190: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1191: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1192: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1193: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1194: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1195: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1196: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1197: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1198: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1199: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1200: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1201:
1.51 deraadt 1202: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1203: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1204: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1205: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1206: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1207: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1208: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1209: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1210: <p>
1211:
1.53 jakob 1212: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1213: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1214: meeting</a></strong>,
1215: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1216: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1217: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1218: <p>
1219:
1.132 louis 1220: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1221: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1222: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1223: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1224: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1225: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1226: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1227: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1228: <p>
1.236 jose 1229: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1230:
1.132 louis 1231: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1232:
1.236 jose 1233: <ul>
1.132 louis 1234: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1235: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1236: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1237: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1238: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 1239: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1240: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1241: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1242: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1243: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1244: <p>
1245:
1.236 jose 1246: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1247: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1248: Conference</a></strong>,
1249: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1250: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1251: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1252: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1253: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1254: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1255: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1256: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1257: <br>
1258: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1259: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1260: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1261: <p>
1262:
1.73 deraadt 1263: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1264: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1265: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1266: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1267: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1268: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1269: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1270: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1271: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1272:
1.236 jose 1273: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1274: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1275: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1276: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1277: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1278: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1279: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1280: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1281:
1.80 deraadt 1282: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1283: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1284: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1285: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1286: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1287: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1288: <p>
1289:
1.93 louis 1290: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1291: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1292: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1293: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1294: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1295: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1296: <p>
1297:
1.216 jose 1298: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1299: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1300: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1301: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1302: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1303: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1304: <p>
1305:
1.236 jose 1306: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1307: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1308: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1309: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1310: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1311: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1312: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1313: <br>
1314: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1315: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1316: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1317: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1318: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1319:
1.236 jose 1320: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1321: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1322: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1323: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1324: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1325: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1326: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1327: <p>
1328:
1.236 jose 1329: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1330: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1331: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1332: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1333: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1334: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1335: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1336: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1337: <br>
1338: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1339: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1340: <p>
1341:
1.105 wvdputte 1342: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1343: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1344: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1345: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1346: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1347: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1348: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1349: <br>
1.132 louis 1350: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1351: <p>
1.236 jose 1352: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1353:
1.132 louis 1354: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1355:
1.236 jose 1356: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1357: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1358: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1359: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1360: Niels held a
1361: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1362: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1363: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1364: <p>
1.132 louis 1365:
1.236 jose 1366: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1367: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1368: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1369: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1370: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1371: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1372:
1.236 jose 1373: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1374: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1375: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1376: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1377: <br>
1378: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1379: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1380: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1381: <p>
1382:
1.125 deraadt 1383: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1384: <a
1385: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1386: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1387: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1388: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1389: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1390:
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1394: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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