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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>
64:
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
1.329 mcbride 74: questions: Bob Beck (Edmonton) who did spamd, Mike Frantzen (USA) who did the
1.328 mcbride 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
1.330 ! deraadt 78: problems, and Theo de Raadt who deleted that non-free Australian junk and
! 79: created the opportunity for this crazy bunch of people to get together.
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1.152 jakob 97: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 99: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 100:
101: <ul>
1.317 henning 102: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
103: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
104: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 105: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 106: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 107: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 108: <p>
109:
1.312 deraadt 110: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
111: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
112: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 113: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
114: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 115: <p>
116:
1.319 saad 117: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
118: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
119: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
120: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
121: <p>
122:
1.310 mickey 123: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
124: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
125: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 126: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 127: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
128: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 129: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 130: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 131: <p>
1.312 deraadt 132:
1.308 deraadt 133: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
134: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
135: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
136: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 137: talks. Topics included
138: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 139: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
140: OpenBGPD, and pf.
141: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 142: <p>
143:
1.304 saad 144: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
145: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
146: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
147: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
148: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 149: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 150: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.316 mbalmer 151: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink, Olivier Cherrier,
152: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 153: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
154: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
155: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
156: <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>
157: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
158: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
159: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
160: <p>
1.301 saad 161: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
162: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
163: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
164: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
165: <p>
166: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
167: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
168: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
169: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
170: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
171: <p>
1.293 saad 172: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
173: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
174: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
175: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
176: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
177: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 178: french translation team.<br>
179: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
180: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
181: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
182: available.<br>
183: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 184: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
185: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
186: <p>
1.296 mcbride 187: </ul>
1.293 saad 188:
1.296 mcbride 189: <h3>2004</h3>
190:
191: <ul>
1.287 henning 192: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
193: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
194: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
195: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
196: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
197: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 198: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 199: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
200: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
201: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
202: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
203: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
204: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 205: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 206: driver.
207: <p>
1.248 deraadt 208:
1.286 kevlo 209: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
210: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
211: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
212: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
213: <p>
214:
1.285 deraadt 215: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
216: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
217: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
218: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
219: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
220: <p>
221:
1.283 saad 222: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
223: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
224: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
225: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
226: meeting of the
227: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
228: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 229: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 230: <p>
231:
1.282 henning 232: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
233: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
234: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
235: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
236: two days, on bgpd
237: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
238: ntpd
239: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
240: and signal handlers
241: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
242: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
243: <p>
244:
1.275 deraadt 245: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
246: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
247: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
248: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
249: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
250: Room B-02 of the
251: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
252: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
253: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
254: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
255: The talk was also given the following day at the
256: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
257: <p>
258:
1.271 henning 259: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
260: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
261: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 262: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
263: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 264: Henning gave a talk
1.272 henning 265: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
266: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 267: <p>
268:
269: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
270: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
271: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 272: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
273: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 274: <p>
275:
1.276 deraadt 276: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 277: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
278: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
279: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
280: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
281: <p>
282:
283: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 284: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
285: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
286: <p>
287:
288: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
289: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
290: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
291: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
292: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
293: <p>
294:
1.268 krw 295: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
296: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
297: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
298: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
299: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
300: <p>
301:
302: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
303: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
304: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
305: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
306: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
307: <p>
308:
309: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
310: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
311: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
312: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
313: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
314: <p>
315:
1.265 wvdputte 316: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
317: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
318: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
319: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
320: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
321: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
322: event."
323: <br>
324: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
325: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
326: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
327: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
328: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
329: <br>
330: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
331: <p>
332:
1.262 henning 333: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
334: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
335: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
336: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
337: Henning's slides from his talks about
338: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
339: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
340: are available.
341: <p>
342:
1.261 deraadt 343: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 344: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 345: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
346: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
347: newly extended version of the
348: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
349: For more information, see this
350: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
351: ComputerWorld article</a>.
352: <p>
353:
354:
1.257 saad 355: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
356: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
357: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
358: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
359: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
360: <p>
361:
362: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
363: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
364: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
365: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
366: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
367: <p>
368:
1.256 mickey 369: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
370: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
371: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
372: session.
373: <p>
374:
1.254 xsa 375: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 376: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 377: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
378: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
379: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
380: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
381: a basic talk about pf.
382: <p>
383:
1.248 deraadt 384: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 385: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 386: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
387: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 388: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
389: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
390: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 391: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
392: <p>
393:
1.247 canacar 394: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
395: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
396: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
397: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
398: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
399: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
400: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
401: projects were discussed.<br>
402: You can view the
1.281 canacar 403: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 404: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 405: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 406: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
407: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
408: <p>
409:
1.242 henning 410: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
411: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
412: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 413: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
414: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
415: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
416: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
417: and systrace
1.263 saad 418: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 419: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
420: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
421: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 422: <p>
423:
1.240 espie 424: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
425: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
426: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
427: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
428: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
429: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
430: <p>
431:
432: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
433: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
434: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
435: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
436: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
437: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
438: <p>
439: </ul>
440:
1.188 henning 441: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 442:
443: <ul>
1.232 jose 444: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
445: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
446: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
447: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
448: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 449: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 450: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 451: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 452: <p>
1.232 jose 453:
1.228 jose 454: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 455: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 456: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
457: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 458: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
459: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 460: with OpenBSD PF.
461: <p>
462:
463: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
464: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
465: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
466: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
467: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 468: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
469: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
470: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
471: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 472: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 473: slides in PDF format </a>
474: (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 475: <p>
476:
1.227 jose 477: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
478: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
479: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
480: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
481: <p>
482:
483: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
484: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
485: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 486: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 487: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 488: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
489: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 490: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 491: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 492: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 493: in Internet worm defenses.
494: <p>
495:
1.224 miod 496: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
497: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
498: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
499: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
500: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
501: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
502: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
503: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
504: OpenBSD.
505: <p>
506:
507: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
508: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
509: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
510: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
511: <p>
512:
513: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
514: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
515: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
516: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
517: <p>
518:
1.219 jose 519: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
520: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
521: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 522: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 523: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
524: <p>
525:
1.218 jose 526: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
527: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
528: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 529: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 530: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
531: <p>
532:
1.214 henning 533: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
534: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 535: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 536: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
537: <p>
538:
1.213 jose 539: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
540: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 541: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 542: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 543: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
544: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
545: <p>
546:
1.211 jose 547: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
548: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 549: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 550: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
551: <p>
552:
553: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
554: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 555: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 556: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 557: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
558: <p>
559:
1.209 wvdputte 560: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
561: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 562: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 563: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
564: <p>
1.195 deraadt 565:
1.202 jason 566: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 567: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 568: Conference</a></strong>,
569: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 570: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
571: <ul>
1.216 jose 572: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 573: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 574: Angelos D. Keromytis,
575: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 576: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 577: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
578: </ul>
579: <p>
580:
1.201 deraadt 581: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 582: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 583: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
584: session.
585: <p>
586:
1.216 jose 587: <li><strong>
588: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
589: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 590: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
591: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
592: <p>
593:
1.216 jose 594: <li><strong>
595: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
596: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 597: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 598: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 599: <p>
600:
1.216 jose 601: <li><strong>
602: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
603: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 604: 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 605: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 606: <p>
607:
1.216 jose 608: <li><strong>
609: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
610: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 611: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
612: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 613: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
614: user groups.
615: <p>
616:
1.236 jose 617: <li><strong>
618: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 619: Group</a></strong>,
620: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 621: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
622: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
623: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
624: <p>
625:
1.216 jose 626: <li><strong>
627: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
628: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 629: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 630: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 631: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
632: <p>
633:
1.216 jose 634: <li><strong>
635: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
636: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 637: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
638: CD sets and Tshirts.
639: <p>
1.236 jose 640: </ul>
1.185 miod 641:
1.161 millert 642: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 643:
644: <ul>
645: <li><strong>
646: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 647: Congress</a></strong>,
648: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 649: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
650: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 651: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
652: <p>
1.177 jason 653:
1.216 jose 654: <li><strong>
655: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
656: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 657: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 658: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 659: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
660: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 661: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 662: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
663: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 664: <p>
1.178 pb 665:
1.216 jose 666: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 667: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 668: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
669: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 670: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
671: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
672: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
673: <p>
674:
1.216 jose 675: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 676: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
677: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
678: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
679: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
680: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
681: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
682: <p>
683:
684: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 685: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
686: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 687: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
688: Niels Provos presented his
689: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
690: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 691: <p>
1.172 miod 692:
1.216 jose 693: <li><strong>
694: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
695: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 696: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
697: <p>
698:
1.216 jose 699: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 700: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 701: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
702: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 703: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
704: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 705: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 706: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 707: <p>
1.168 miod 708:
1.216 jose 709: <li><strong>
710: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
711: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 712: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 713: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
714: are available.
1.161 millert 715: <p>
716:
1.216 jose 717: <li><strong>
718: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
719: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 720: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
721: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
722: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
723: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
724: <p>
725:
1.216 jose 726: <li><strong>
727: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
728: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 729: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
730: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
731: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
732: <p>
1.236 jose 733: </ul>
1.164 millert 734:
1.152 jakob 735: <h3>2001</h3>
736:
1.236 jose 737: <ul>
1.216 jose 738: <li><strong>
739: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
740: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 741: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
742: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
743: <p>
744:
1.216 jose 745: <li><strong>
746: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
747: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 748: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
749: <p>
750:
1.158 deraadt 751: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 752: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 753: 2001</a></strong>,
754: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 755: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
756: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
757: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
758: <p>
759:
1.216 jose 760: <li><strong>
761: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
762: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 763: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
764: <p>
765:
1.201 deraadt 766: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 767: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 768: Jakob and Itojun were there.
769: <p>
1.158 deraadt 770:
1.150 wvdputte 771: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 772: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 773: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 774: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
775: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
776: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 777: <p>
1.137 aaron 778:
779: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 780: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 781: Conference</a></strong>,
782: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 783: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
784: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
785: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
786: <p>
787:
788: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 789: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 790: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 791: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
792: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
793: <p>
794:
795: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 796: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 797: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
798: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 799: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
800: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
801: <p>
802:
803: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 804: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 805: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
806: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 807: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
808: <p>
809:
810: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 811: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 812: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 813: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 814: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
815: security community.
816: <p>
817:
818: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 819: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 820: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
821: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 822: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
823: <p>
824:
825: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 826: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 827: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 828: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 829: <p>
1.236 jose 830: </ul>
1.137 aaron 831:
1.132 louis 832: <h3>2000</h3>
833:
1.236 jose 834: <ul>
1.132 louis 835: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 836: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 837: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
838: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 839: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
840: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
841: <p>
842:
843: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 844: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 845: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 846: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
847: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
848: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
849: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 850: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 851: <p>
852:
853: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 854: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 855: 2000</a></strong>,
856: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 857: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 858: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 859: <p>
1.4 millert 860:
1.132 louis 861: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 862: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 863: Summit</a></strong>,
864: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 865: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 866: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
867: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
868:
869: <ul>
1.236 jose 870: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 871: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 872: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
873: </ul>
1.4 millert 874: <p>
1.132 louis 875:
1.7 deraadt 876: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 877: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 878: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 879: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
880: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 881: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 882: mind (drinks afterwards).
883: <p>
884:
1.216 jose 885: <li><strong>
886: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
887: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 888: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
889: questions.
1.32 deraadt 890: <p>
1.1 deraadt 891:
1.132 louis 892: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 893: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 894: Revolution</a></strong>,
895: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 896: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
897: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 898: <p>
899:
1.132 louis 900: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 901: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
902: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 903: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
904: <ul>
1.236 jose 905: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 906: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 907: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 908: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
909: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
910: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 911: <p>
1.132 louis 912:
1.10 provos 913: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 914: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 915: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 916: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 917: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
918: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
919: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
920: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
921: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
922: <br>
923: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
924: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
925: <p>
1.32 deraadt 926:
1.132 louis 927: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 928: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 929: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
930: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
931: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 932: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
933: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
934: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
935: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
936: and spoke about
937: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 938: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 939: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 940: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 941: <p>
1.132 louis 942:
1.6 deraadt 943: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 944: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 945: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 946: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
947: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
948: <br>
949: Christian Weisgerber gave a
950: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
951: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 952: <p>
1.1 deraadt 953:
1.216 jose 954: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 955: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 956: Conference.</a></strong>,
957: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 958: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
959: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
960: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
961: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
962: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 963: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 964: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
965: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
966: <ul>
967:
968: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
969: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 970: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 971: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
972: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
973:
974: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
975: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 976: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 977: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
978: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 979:
1.132 louis 980: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
981: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 982: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 983: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 984: <p>
985:
1.132 louis 986: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 987: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 988: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
989: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 990: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
991: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
992: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 993: <p>
1.2 deraadt 994:
1.132 louis 995: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 996: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
997: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 998: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
999: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1000: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1001: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1002: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1003: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1004:
1.17 deraadt 1005: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1006: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1007: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1008: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1009: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1010: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1011: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1012: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1013: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1014:
1.23 niklas 1015: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1016: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1017: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1018: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1019: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1020: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1021: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1022: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1023: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1024: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1025: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1026:
1.132 louis 1027: <li><strong>
1028: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1029: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1030: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1031: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1032: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1033: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1034: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1035: <p>
1.23 niklas 1036:
1.31 deraadt 1037: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1038: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1039: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1040: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1041: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1042: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1043: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1044: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1045: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1046: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1047:
1.201 deraadt 1048: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1049: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1050: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1051: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1052: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1053: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1054: <p>
1.236 jose 1055: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1056:
1.132 louis 1057: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1058:
1.236 jose 1059: <ul>
1.216 jose 1060: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1061: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1062: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1063: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 1064: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
1065: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1066: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1067: <p>
1068:
1.216 jose 1069: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1070: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1071: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1072: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1073: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1074: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1075: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1076: There were many other OpenBSD
1077: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1078: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
1079:
1080: <ul>
1081: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1082: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1083: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1084: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1085: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1086: </ul>
1087: <p>
1088:
1089: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1090: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1091: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1092: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1093: <p>
1094:
1095: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1096: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1097: Software '99</a></strong>,
1098: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1099: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1100: <a
1101: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1102: <p>
1103:
1104: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1105: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1106: 1999</a></strong>,
1107: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1108: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1109: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1110: <p>
1111:
1.236 jose 1112: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1113: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1114: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1115: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1116: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1117: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1118: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1119: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1120: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1121: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1122: conference in Stockholm.
1123: <p>
1124:
1125: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1126: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1127: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1128: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1129: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1130: coordinated.
1131: <p>
1132:
1133: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1134: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1135: Security</a></strong>,
1136: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1137: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1138: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1139: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1140: significant security roles.
1141: <p>
1142:
1143: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1144: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1145: meeting</a></strong>,
1146: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1147: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1148: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1149: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1150: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1151: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1152: <p>
1.45 jason 1153:
1.132 louis 1154: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1155: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1156: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1157: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1158: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1159: <p>
1.132 louis 1160:
1.236 jose 1161: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1162: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1163: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1164: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1165: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1166: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1167: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1168: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1169: June.)
1.132 louis 1170: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1171: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1172: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1173:
1.46 deraadt 1174: <ul>
1.236 jose 1175: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 1176: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1177: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1178: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1179: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1180: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1181: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1182: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1183: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1184: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1185: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1186: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1187: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1188: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1189: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1190: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1191: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1192: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1193: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1194: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1195: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1196: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1197: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1198: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1199: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1200: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1201: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1202:
1.51 deraadt 1203: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1204: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1205: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1206: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1207: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1208: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1209: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1210: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1211: <p>
1212:
1.53 jakob 1213: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1214: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1215: meeting</a></strong>,
1216: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1217: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1218: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1219: <p>
1220:
1.132 louis 1221: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1222: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1223: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1224: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1225: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1226: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1227: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1228: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1229: <p>
1.236 jose 1230: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1231:
1.132 louis 1232: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1233:
1.236 jose 1234: <ul>
1.132 louis 1235: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1236: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1237: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1238: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1239: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 1240: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1241: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1242: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1243: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1244: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1245: <p>
1246:
1.236 jose 1247: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1248: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1249: Conference</a></strong>,
1250: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1251: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1252: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1253: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1254: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1255: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1256: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1257: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1258: <br>
1259: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1260: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1261: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1262: <p>
1263:
1.73 deraadt 1264: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1265: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1266: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1267: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1268: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1269: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1270: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1271: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1272: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1273:
1.236 jose 1274: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1275: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1276: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1277: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1278: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1279: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1280: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1281: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1282:
1.80 deraadt 1283: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1284: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1285: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1286: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1287: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1288: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1289: <p>
1290:
1.93 louis 1291: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1292: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1293: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1294: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1295: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1296: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1297: <p>
1298:
1.216 jose 1299: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1300: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1301: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1302: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1303: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1304: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1305: <p>
1306:
1.236 jose 1307: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1308: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1309: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1310: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1311: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1312: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1313: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1314: <br>
1315: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1316: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1317: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1318: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1319: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1320:
1.236 jose 1321: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1322: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1323: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1324: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1325: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1326: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1327: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1328: <p>
1329:
1.236 jose 1330: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1331: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1332: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1333: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1334: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1335: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1336: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1337: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1338: <br>
1339: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1340: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1341: <p>
1342:
1.105 wvdputte 1343: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1344: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1345: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1346: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1347: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1348: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1349: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1350: <br>
1.132 louis 1351: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1352: <p>
1.236 jose 1353: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1354:
1.132 louis 1355: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1356:
1.236 jose 1357: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1358: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1359: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1360: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1361: Niels held a
1362: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1363: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1364: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1365: <p>
1.132 louis 1366:
1.236 jose 1367: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1368: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1369: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1370: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1371: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1372: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1373:
1.236 jose 1374: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1375: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1376: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1377: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1378: <br>
1379: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1380: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1381: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1382: <p>
1383:
1.125 deraadt 1384: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1385: <a
1386: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1387: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1388: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1389: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1390: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1391:
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1395: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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