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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:
1.332 ! saad 37: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
! 38: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewilling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
! 39: April 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
! 40:
! 41: Peter N. M. Hansteen will give a firewalling with PF talk - hopefully
! 42: giving you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
! 43: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
! 44: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
! 45: a hard time. The talk will be in Norwegian, with <a
! 46: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
! 47: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
! 48: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
! 49: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
! 50: available if you can't make it there.
! 51: <p>
! 52:
1.327 henning 53: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
54: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
55: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
56: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD, likely on the 3rd.
57: RIPE Meetings are open to everyone and provide an excellent opportunity
58: to take part in Internet policy discussions.
59: <p>
60:
1.324 mcbride 61: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
62: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
63: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
64: There will be a number of OpenBSD developers in attendance, including
65: Theo de Raadt and Ryan McBride. We'll have early access 3.7 CDs to sell, and
66: Ryan McBride may be presenting a talk on Network Stack Randomness: how it
67: protects against known and unknown attacks, and details of OpenBSDs
68: implementation.
1.323 mcbride 69: <p>
70:
1.302 mcbride 71: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1.303 mcbride 72: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1.302 mcbride 73: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
74: A number of OpenBSD developers will be presenting: Bob Beck on
75: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1.309 henning 76: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
77: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL.
1.302 mcbride 78: Expect to find other OpenBSD developers in attendance as well.
1.328 mcbride 79: <p>
80:
81: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
82: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
83: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
84: Ryan McBride will speak about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
85: A broad overview of PF's features will be presented, with special attention
86: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
87: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
88: <p>
89: The other major PF developers will also be in attendance and available to answer
1.329 mcbride 90: questions: Bob Beck (Edmonton) who did spamd, Mike Frantzen (USA) who did the
1.328 mcbride 91: state engine, Daniel Hartmeier (Switzerland) who started it all, Markus Friedl
92: (Germany) who helped develop the grammar, and Henning Brauer (Germany) who
93: integrated PF with ALTQ bandwidth shaping and pushed us to fix some early load
1.330 deraadt 94: problems, and Theo de Raadt who deleted that non-free Australian junk and
95: created the opportunity for this crazy bunch of people to get together.
1.331 deraadt 96: <p>
97: There will be brand new OpenBSD 3.7 CDs and tshirts and posters for sale
98: at this event.....
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1.152 jakob 116: <h2>Past events:</h2>
117:
1.296 mcbride 118: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 119:
120: <ul>
1.317 henning 121: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
122: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
123: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 124: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 125: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 126: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 127: <p>
128:
1.312 deraadt 129: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
130: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
131: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 132: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
133: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 134: <p>
135:
1.319 saad 136: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
137: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
138: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
139: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
140: <p>
141:
1.310 mickey 142: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
143: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
144: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 145: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 146: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
147: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 148: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 149: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 150: <p>
1.312 deraadt 151:
1.308 deraadt 152: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
153: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
154: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
155: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 156: talks. Topics included
157: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 158: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
159: OpenBGPD, and pf.
160: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 161: <p>
162:
1.304 saad 163: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
164: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
165: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
166: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
167: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 168: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 169: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.316 mbalmer 170: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink, Olivier Cherrier,
171: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 172: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
173: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
174: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
175: <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>
176: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
177: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
178: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
179: <p>
1.301 saad 180: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
181: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
182: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
183: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
184: <p>
185: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
186: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
187: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
188: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
189: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
190: <p>
1.293 saad 191: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
192: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
193: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
194: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
195: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
196: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 197: french translation team.<br>
198: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
199: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
200: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
201: available.<br>
202: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 203: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
204: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
205: <p>
1.296 mcbride 206: </ul>
1.293 saad 207:
1.296 mcbride 208: <h3>2004</h3>
209:
210: <ul>
1.287 henning 211: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
212: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
213: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
214: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
215: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
216: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 217: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 218: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
219: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
220: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
221: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
222: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
223: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 224: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 225: driver.
226: <p>
1.248 deraadt 227:
1.286 kevlo 228: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
229: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
230: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
231: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
232: <p>
233:
1.285 deraadt 234: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
235: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
236: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
237: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
238: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
239: <p>
240:
1.283 saad 241: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
242: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
243: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
244: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
245: meeting of the
246: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
247: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 248: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 249: <p>
250:
1.282 henning 251: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
252: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
253: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
254: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
255: two days, on bgpd
256: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
257: ntpd
258: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
259: and signal handlers
260: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
261: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
262: <p>
263:
1.275 deraadt 264: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
265: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
266: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
267: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
268: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
269: Room B-02 of the
270: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
271: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
272: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
273: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
274: The talk was also given the following day at the
275: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
276: <p>
277:
1.271 henning 278: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
279: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
280: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 281: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
282: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 283: Henning gave a talk
1.272 henning 284: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
285: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 286: <p>
287:
288: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
289: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
290: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 291: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
292: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 293: <p>
294:
1.276 deraadt 295: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 296: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
297: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
298: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
299: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
300: <p>
301:
302: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 303: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
304: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
305: <p>
306:
307: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
308: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
309: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
310: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
311: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
312: <p>
313:
1.268 krw 314: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
315: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
316: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
317: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
318: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
319: <p>
320:
321: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
322: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
323: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
324: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
325: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
326: <p>
327:
328: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
329: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
330: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
331: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
332: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
333: <p>
334:
1.265 wvdputte 335: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
336: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
337: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
338: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
339: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
340: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
341: event."
342: <br>
343: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
344: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
345: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
346: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
347: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
348: <br>
349: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
350: <p>
351:
1.262 henning 352: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
353: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
354: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
355: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
356: Henning's slides from his talks about
357: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
358: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
359: are available.
360: <p>
361:
1.261 deraadt 362: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 363: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 364: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
365: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
366: newly extended version of the
367: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
368: For more information, see this
369: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
370: ComputerWorld article</a>.
371: <p>
372:
373:
1.257 saad 374: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
375: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
376: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
377: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
378: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
379: <p>
380:
381: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
382: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
383: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
384: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
385: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
386: <p>
387:
1.256 mickey 388: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
389: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
390: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
391: session.
392: <p>
393:
1.254 xsa 394: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 395: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 396: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
397: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
398: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
399: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
400: a basic talk about pf.
401: <p>
402:
1.248 deraadt 403: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 404: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 405: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
406: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 407: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
408: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
409: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 410: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
411: <p>
412:
1.247 canacar 413: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
414: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
415: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
416: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
417: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
418: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
419: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
420: projects were discussed.<br>
421: You can view the
1.281 canacar 422: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 423: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 424: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 425: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
426: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
427: <p>
428:
1.242 henning 429: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
430: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
431: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 432: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
433: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
434: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
435: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
436: and systrace
1.263 saad 437: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 438: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
439: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
440: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 441: <p>
442:
1.240 espie 443: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
444: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
445: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
446: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
447: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
448: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
449: <p>
450:
451: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
452: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
453: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
454: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
455: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
456: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
457: <p>
458: </ul>
459:
1.188 henning 460: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 461:
462: <ul>
1.232 jose 463: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
464: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
465: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
466: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
467: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 468: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 469: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 470: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 471: <p>
1.232 jose 472:
1.228 jose 473: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 474: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 475: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
476: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 477: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
478: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 479: with OpenBSD PF.
480: <p>
481:
482: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
483: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
484: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
485: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
486: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 487: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
488: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
489: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
490: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 491: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 492: slides in PDF format </a>
493: (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 494: <p>
495:
1.227 jose 496: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
497: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
498: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
499: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
500: <p>
501:
502: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
503: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
504: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 505: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 506: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 507: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
508: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 509: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 510: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 511: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 512: in Internet worm defenses.
513: <p>
514:
1.224 miod 515: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
516: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
517: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
518: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
519: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
520: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
521: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
522: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
523: OpenBSD.
524: <p>
525:
526: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
527: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
528: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
529: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
530: <p>
531:
532: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
533: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
534: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
535: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
536: <p>
537:
1.219 jose 538: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
539: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
540: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 541: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 542: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
543: <p>
544:
1.218 jose 545: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
546: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
547: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 548: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 549: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
550: <p>
551:
1.214 henning 552: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
553: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 554: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 555: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
556: <p>
557:
1.213 jose 558: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
559: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 560: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 561: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 562: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
563: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
564: <p>
565:
1.211 jose 566: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
567: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 568: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 569: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
570: <p>
571:
572: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
573: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 574: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 575: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 576: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
577: <p>
578:
1.209 wvdputte 579: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
580: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 581: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 582: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
583: <p>
1.195 deraadt 584:
1.202 jason 585: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 586: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 587: Conference</a></strong>,
588: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 589: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
590: <ul>
1.216 jose 591: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 592: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 593: Angelos D. Keromytis,
594: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 595: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 596: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
597: </ul>
598: <p>
599:
1.201 deraadt 600: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 601: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 602: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
603: session.
604: <p>
605:
1.216 jose 606: <li><strong>
607: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
608: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 609: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
610: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
611: <p>
612:
1.216 jose 613: <li><strong>
614: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
615: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 616: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 617: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 618: <p>
619:
1.216 jose 620: <li><strong>
621: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
622: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 623: 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 624: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 625: <p>
626:
1.216 jose 627: <li><strong>
628: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
629: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 630: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
631: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 632: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
633: user groups.
634: <p>
635:
1.236 jose 636: <li><strong>
637: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 638: Group</a></strong>,
639: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 640: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
641: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
642: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
643: <p>
644:
1.216 jose 645: <li><strong>
646: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
647: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 648: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 649: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 650: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
651: <p>
652:
1.216 jose 653: <li><strong>
654: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
655: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 656: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
657: CD sets and Tshirts.
658: <p>
1.236 jose 659: </ul>
1.185 miod 660:
1.161 millert 661: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 662:
663: <ul>
664: <li><strong>
665: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 666: Congress</a></strong>,
667: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 668: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
669: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 670: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
671: <p>
1.177 jason 672:
1.216 jose 673: <li><strong>
674: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
675: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 676: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 677: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 678: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
679: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 680: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 681: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
682: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 683: <p>
1.178 pb 684:
1.216 jose 685: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 686: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 687: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
688: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 689: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
690: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
691: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
692: <p>
693:
1.216 jose 694: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 695: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
696: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
697: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
698: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
699: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
700: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
701: <p>
702:
703: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 704: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
705: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 706: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
707: Niels Provos presented his
708: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
709: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 710: <p>
1.172 miod 711:
1.216 jose 712: <li><strong>
713: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
714: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 715: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
716: <p>
717:
1.216 jose 718: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 719: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 720: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
721: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 722: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
723: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 724: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 725: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 726: <p>
1.168 miod 727:
1.216 jose 728: <li><strong>
729: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
730: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 731: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 732: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
733: are available.
1.161 millert 734: <p>
735:
1.216 jose 736: <li><strong>
737: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
738: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 739: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
740: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
741: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
742: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
743: <p>
744:
1.216 jose 745: <li><strong>
746: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
747: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 748: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
749: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
750: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
751: <p>
1.236 jose 752: </ul>
1.164 millert 753:
1.152 jakob 754: <h3>2001</h3>
755:
1.236 jose 756: <ul>
1.216 jose 757: <li><strong>
758: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
759: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 760: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
761: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
762: <p>
763:
1.216 jose 764: <li><strong>
765: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
766: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 767: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
768: <p>
769:
1.158 deraadt 770: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 771: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 772: 2001</a></strong>,
773: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 774: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
775: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
776: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
777: <p>
778:
1.216 jose 779: <li><strong>
780: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
781: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 782: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
783: <p>
784:
1.201 deraadt 785: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 786: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 787: Jakob and Itojun were there.
788: <p>
1.158 deraadt 789:
1.150 wvdputte 790: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 791: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 792: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 793: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
794: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
795: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 796: <p>
1.137 aaron 797:
798: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 799: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 800: Conference</a></strong>,
801: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 802: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
803: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
804: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
805: <p>
806:
807: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 808: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 809: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 810: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
811: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
812: <p>
813:
814: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 815: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 816: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
817: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 818: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
819: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
820: <p>
821:
822: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 823: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 824: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
825: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 826: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
827: <p>
828:
829: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 830: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 831: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 832: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 833: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
834: security community.
835: <p>
836:
837: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 838: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 839: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
840: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 841: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
842: <p>
843:
844: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 845: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 846: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 847: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 848: <p>
1.236 jose 849: </ul>
1.137 aaron 850:
1.132 louis 851: <h3>2000</h3>
852:
1.236 jose 853: <ul>
1.132 louis 854: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 855: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 856: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
857: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 858: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
859: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
860: <p>
861:
862: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 863: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 864: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 865: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
866: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
867: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
868: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 869: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 870: <p>
871:
872: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 873: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 874: 2000</a></strong>,
875: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 876: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 877: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 878: <p>
1.4 millert 879:
1.132 louis 880: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 881: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 882: Summit</a></strong>,
883: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 884: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 885: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
886: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
887:
888: <ul>
1.236 jose 889: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 890: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 891: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
892: </ul>
1.4 millert 893: <p>
1.132 louis 894:
1.7 deraadt 895: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 896: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 897: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 898: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
899: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 900: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 901: mind (drinks afterwards).
902: <p>
903:
1.216 jose 904: <li><strong>
905: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
906: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 907: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
908: questions.
1.32 deraadt 909: <p>
1.1 deraadt 910:
1.132 louis 911: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 912: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 913: Revolution</a></strong>,
914: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 915: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
916: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 917: <p>
918:
1.132 louis 919: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 920: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
921: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 922: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
923: <ul>
1.236 jose 924: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 925: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 926: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 927: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
928: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
929: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 930: <p>
1.132 louis 931:
1.10 provos 932: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 933: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 934: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 935: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 936: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
937: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
938: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
939: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
940: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
941: <br>
942: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
943: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
944: <p>
1.32 deraadt 945:
1.132 louis 946: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 947: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 948: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
949: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
950: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 951: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
952: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
953: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
954: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
955: and spoke about
956: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 957: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 958: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 959: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 960: <p>
1.132 louis 961:
1.6 deraadt 962: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 963: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 964: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 965: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
966: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
967: <br>
968: Christian Weisgerber gave a
969: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
970: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 971: <p>
1.1 deraadt 972:
1.216 jose 973: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 974: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 975: Conference.</a></strong>,
976: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 977: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
978: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
979: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
980: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
981: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 982: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 983: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
984: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
985: <ul>
986:
987: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
988: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 989: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 990: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
991: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
992:
993: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
994: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 995: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 996: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
997: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 998:
1.132 louis 999: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1000: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1001: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1002: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1003: <p>
1004:
1.132 louis 1005: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1006: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1007: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1008: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1009: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1010: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1011: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1012: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1013:
1.132 louis 1014: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1015: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1016: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1017: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1018: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1019: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1020: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1021: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1022: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1023:
1.17 deraadt 1024: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1025: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1026: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1027: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1028: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1029: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1030: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1031: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1032: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1033:
1.23 niklas 1034: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1035: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1036: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1037: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1038: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1039: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1040: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1041: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1042: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1043: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1044: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1045:
1.132 louis 1046: <li><strong>
1047: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1048: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1049: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1050: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1051: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1052: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1053: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1054: <p>
1.23 niklas 1055:
1.31 deraadt 1056: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1057: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1058: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1059: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1060: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1061: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1062: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1063: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1064: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1065: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1066:
1.201 deraadt 1067: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1068: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1069: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1070: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1071: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1072: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1073: <p>
1.236 jose 1074: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1075:
1.132 louis 1076: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1077:
1.236 jose 1078: <ul>
1.216 jose 1079: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1080: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1081: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1082: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 1083: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
1084: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1085: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1086: <p>
1087:
1.216 jose 1088: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1089: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1090: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1091: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1092: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1093: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1094: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1095: There were many other OpenBSD
1096: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1097: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
1098:
1099: <ul>
1100: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1101: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1102: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1103: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1104: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1105: </ul>
1106: <p>
1107:
1108: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1109: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1110: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1111: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1112: <p>
1113:
1114: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1115: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1116: Software '99</a></strong>,
1117: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1118: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1119: <a
1120: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1121: <p>
1122:
1123: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1124: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1125: 1999</a></strong>,
1126: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1127: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1128: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1129: <p>
1130:
1.236 jose 1131: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1132: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1133: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1134: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1135: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1136: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1137: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1138: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1139: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1140: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1141: conference in Stockholm.
1142: <p>
1143:
1144: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1145: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1146: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1147: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1148: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1149: coordinated.
1150: <p>
1151:
1152: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1153: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1154: Security</a></strong>,
1155: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1156: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1157: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1158: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1159: significant security roles.
1160: <p>
1161:
1162: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1163: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1164: meeting</a></strong>,
1165: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1166: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1167: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1168: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1169: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1170: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1171: <p>
1.45 jason 1172:
1.132 louis 1173: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1174: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1175: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1176: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1177: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1178: <p>
1.132 louis 1179:
1.236 jose 1180: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1181: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1182: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1183: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1184: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1185: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1186: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1187: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1188: June.)
1.132 louis 1189: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1190: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1191: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1192:
1.46 deraadt 1193: <ul>
1.236 jose 1194: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 1195: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1196: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1197: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1198: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1199: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1200: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1201: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1202: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1203: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1204: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1205: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1206: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1207: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1208: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1209: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1210: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1211: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1212: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1213: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1214: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1215: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1216: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1217: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1218: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1219: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1220: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1221:
1.51 deraadt 1222: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1223: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1224: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1225: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1226: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1227: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1228: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1229: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1230: <p>
1231:
1.53 jakob 1232: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1233: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1234: meeting</a></strong>,
1235: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1236: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1237: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1238: <p>
1239:
1.132 louis 1240: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1241: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1242: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1243: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1244: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1245: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1246: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1247: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1248: <p>
1.236 jose 1249: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1250:
1.132 louis 1251: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1252:
1.236 jose 1253: <ul>
1.132 louis 1254: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1255: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1256: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1257: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1258: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 1259: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1260: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1261: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1262: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1263: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1264: <p>
1265:
1.236 jose 1266: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1267: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1268: Conference</a></strong>,
1269: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1270: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1271: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1272: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1273: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1274: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1275: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1276: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1277: <br>
1278: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1279: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1280: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1281: <p>
1282:
1.73 deraadt 1283: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1284: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1285: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1286: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1287: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1288: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1289: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1290: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1291: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1292:
1.236 jose 1293: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1294: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1295: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1296: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1297: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1298: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1299: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1300: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1301:
1.80 deraadt 1302: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1303: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1304: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1305: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1306: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1307: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1308: <p>
1309:
1.93 louis 1310: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1311: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1312: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1313: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1314: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1315: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1316: <p>
1317:
1.216 jose 1318: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1319: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1320: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1321: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1322: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1323: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1324: <p>
1325:
1.236 jose 1326: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1327: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1328: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1329: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1330: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1331: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1332: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1333: <br>
1334: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1335: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1336: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1337: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1338: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1339:
1.236 jose 1340: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1341: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1342: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1343: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1344: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1345: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1346: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1347: <p>
1348:
1.236 jose 1349: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1350: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1351: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1352: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1353: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1354: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1355: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1356: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1357: <br>
1358: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1359: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1360: <p>
1361:
1.105 wvdputte 1362: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1363: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1364: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1365: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1366: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1367: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1368: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1369: <br>
1.132 louis 1370: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1371: <p>
1.236 jose 1372: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1373:
1.132 louis 1374: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1375:
1.236 jose 1376: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1377: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1378: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1379: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1380: Niels held a
1381: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1382: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1383: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1384: <p>
1.132 louis 1385:
1.236 jose 1386: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1387: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1388: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1389: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1390: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1391: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1392:
1.236 jose 1393: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1394: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1395: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1396: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1397: <br>
1398: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1399: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1400: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1401: <p>
1402:
1.125 deraadt 1403: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1404: <a
1405: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1406: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1407: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1408: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1409: </ul>
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