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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>
1.333 ! saad 38: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.332 saad 39: April 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
40: Peter N. M. Hansteen will give a firewalling with PF talk - hopefully
41: giving you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
42: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
43: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
44: a hard time. The talk will be in Norwegian, with <a
45: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
46: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
47: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
48: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
49: available if you can't make it there.
50: <p>
51:
1.327 henning 52: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
53: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
54: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
55: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD, likely on the 3rd.
56: RIPE Meetings are open to everyone and provide an excellent opportunity
57: to take part in Internet policy discussions.
58: <p>
59:
1.324 mcbride 60: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
61: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
62: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
63: There will be a number of OpenBSD developers in attendance, including
64: Theo de Raadt and Ryan McBride. We'll have early access 3.7 CDs to sell, and
65: Ryan McBride may be presenting a talk on Network Stack Randomness: how it
66: protects against known and unknown attacks, and details of OpenBSDs
67: implementation.
1.323 mcbride 68: <p>
69:
1.302 mcbride 70: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1.303 mcbride 71: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1.302 mcbride 72: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
73: A number of OpenBSD developers will be presenting: Bob Beck on
74: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1.309 henning 75: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
76: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL.
1.302 mcbride 77: Expect to find other OpenBSD developers in attendance as well.
1.328 mcbride 78: <p>
79:
80: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
81: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
82: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
83: Ryan McBride will speak about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
84: A broad overview of PF's features will be presented, with special attention
85: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
86: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
87: <p>
88: The other major PF developers will also be in attendance and available to answer
1.329 mcbride 89: questions: Bob Beck (Edmonton) who did spamd, Mike Frantzen (USA) who did the
1.328 mcbride 90: state engine, Daniel Hartmeier (Switzerland) who started it all, Markus Friedl
91: (Germany) who helped develop the grammar, and Henning Brauer (Germany) who
92: integrated PF with ALTQ bandwidth shaping and pushed us to fix some early load
1.330 deraadt 93: problems, and Theo de Raadt who deleted that non-free Australian junk and
94: created the opportunity for this crazy bunch of people to get together.
1.331 deraadt 95: <p>
96: There will be brand new OpenBSD 3.7 CDs and tshirts and posters for sale
97: at this event.....
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1.152 jakob 115: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 117: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 118:
119: <ul>
1.317 henning 120: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
121: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
122: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 123: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 124: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 125: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 126: <p>
127:
1.312 deraadt 128: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
129: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
130: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 131: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
132: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 133: <p>
134:
1.319 saad 135: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
136: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
137: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
138: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
139: <p>
140:
1.310 mickey 141: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
142: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
143: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 144: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 145: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
146: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 147: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 148: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 149: <p>
1.312 deraadt 150:
1.308 deraadt 151: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
152: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
153: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
154: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 155: talks. Topics included
156: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 157: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
158: OpenBGPD, and pf.
159: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 160: <p>
161:
1.304 saad 162: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
163: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
164: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
165: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
166: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 167: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 168: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.316 mbalmer 169: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink, Olivier Cherrier,
170: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 171: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
172: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
173: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
174: <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>
175: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
176: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
177: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
178: <p>
1.301 saad 179: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
180: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
181: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
182: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
183: <p>
184: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
185: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
186: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
187: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
188: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
189: <p>
1.293 saad 190: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
191: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
192: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
193: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
194: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
195: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 196: french translation team.<br>
197: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
198: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
199: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
200: available.<br>
201: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 202: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
203: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
204: <p>
1.296 mcbride 205: </ul>
1.293 saad 206:
1.296 mcbride 207: <h3>2004</h3>
208:
209: <ul>
1.287 henning 210: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
211: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
212: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
213: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
214: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
215: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 216: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 217: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
218: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
219: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
220: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
221: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
222: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 223: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 224: driver.
225: <p>
1.248 deraadt 226:
1.286 kevlo 227: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
228: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
229: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
230: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
231: <p>
232:
1.285 deraadt 233: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
234: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
235: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
236: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
237: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
238: <p>
239:
1.283 saad 240: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
241: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
242: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
243: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
244: meeting of the
245: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
246: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 247: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 248: <p>
249:
1.282 henning 250: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
251: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
252: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
253: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
254: two days, on bgpd
255: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
256: ntpd
257: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
258: and signal handlers
259: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
260: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
261: <p>
262:
1.275 deraadt 263: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
264: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
265: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
266: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
267: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
268: Room B-02 of the
269: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
270: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
271: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
272: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
273: The talk was also given the following day at the
274: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
275: <p>
276:
1.271 henning 277: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
278: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
279: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 280: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
281: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 282: Henning gave a talk
1.272 henning 283: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
284: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 285: <p>
286:
287: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
288: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
289: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 290: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
291: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 292: <p>
293:
1.276 deraadt 294: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 295: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
296: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
297: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
298: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
299: <p>
300:
301: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 302: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
303: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
304: <p>
305:
306: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
307: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
308: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
309: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
310: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
311: <p>
312:
1.268 krw 313: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
314: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
315: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
316: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
317: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
318: <p>
319:
320: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
321: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
322: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
323: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
324: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
325: <p>
326:
327: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
328: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
329: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
330: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
331: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
332: <p>
333:
1.265 wvdputte 334: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
335: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
336: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
337: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
338: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
339: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
340: event."
341: <br>
342: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
343: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
344: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
345: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
346: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
347: <br>
348: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
349: <p>
350:
1.262 henning 351: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
352: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
353: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
354: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
355: Henning's slides from his talks about
356: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
357: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
358: are available.
359: <p>
360:
1.261 deraadt 361: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 362: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 363: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
364: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
365: newly extended version of the
366: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
367: For more information, see this
368: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
369: ComputerWorld article</a>.
370: <p>
371:
372:
1.257 saad 373: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
374: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
375: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
376: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
377: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
378: <p>
379:
380: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
381: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
382: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
383: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
384: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
385: <p>
386:
1.256 mickey 387: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
388: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
389: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
390: session.
391: <p>
392:
1.254 xsa 393: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 394: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 395: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
396: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
397: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
398: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
399: a basic talk about pf.
400: <p>
401:
1.248 deraadt 402: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 403: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 404: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
405: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 406: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
407: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
408: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 409: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
410: <p>
411:
1.247 canacar 412: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
413: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
414: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
415: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
416: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
417: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
418: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
419: projects were discussed.<br>
420: You can view the
1.281 canacar 421: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 422: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 423: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 424: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
425: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
426: <p>
427:
1.242 henning 428: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
429: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
430: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 431: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
432: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
433: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
434: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
435: and systrace
1.263 saad 436: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 437: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
438: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
439: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 440: <p>
441:
1.240 espie 442: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
443: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
444: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
445: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
446: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
447: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
448: <p>
449:
450: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
451: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
452: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
453: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
454: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
455: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
456: <p>
457: </ul>
458:
1.188 henning 459: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 460:
461: <ul>
1.232 jose 462: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
463: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
464: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
465: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
466: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 467: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 468: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 469: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 470: <p>
1.232 jose 471:
1.228 jose 472: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 473: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 474: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
475: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 476: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
477: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 478: with OpenBSD PF.
479: <p>
480:
481: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
482: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
483: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
484: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
485: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 486: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
487: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
488: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
489: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 490: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 491: slides in PDF format </a>
492: (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 493: <p>
494:
1.227 jose 495: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
496: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
497: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
498: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
499: <p>
500:
501: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
502: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
503: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 504: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 505: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 506: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
507: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 508: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 509: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 510: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 511: in Internet worm defenses.
512: <p>
513:
1.224 miod 514: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
515: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
516: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
517: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
518: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
519: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
520: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
521: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
522: OpenBSD.
523: <p>
524:
525: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
526: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
527: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
528: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
529: <p>
530:
531: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
532: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
533: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
534: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
535: <p>
536:
1.219 jose 537: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
538: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
539: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 540: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 541: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
542: <p>
543:
1.218 jose 544: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
545: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
546: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 547: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 548: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
549: <p>
550:
1.214 henning 551: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
552: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 553: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 554: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
555: <p>
556:
1.213 jose 557: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
558: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 559: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 560: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 561: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
562: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
563: <p>
564:
1.211 jose 565: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
566: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 567: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 568: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
569: <p>
570:
571: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
572: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 573: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 574: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 575: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
576: <p>
577:
1.209 wvdputte 578: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
579: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 580: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 581: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
582: <p>
1.195 deraadt 583:
1.202 jason 584: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 585: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 586: Conference</a></strong>,
587: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 588: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
589: <ul>
1.216 jose 590: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 591: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 592: Angelos D. Keromytis,
593: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 594: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 595: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
596: </ul>
597: <p>
598:
1.201 deraadt 599: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 600: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 601: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
602: session.
603: <p>
604:
1.216 jose 605: <li><strong>
606: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
607: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 608: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
609: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
610: <p>
611:
1.216 jose 612: <li><strong>
613: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
614: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 615: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 616: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 617: <p>
618:
1.216 jose 619: <li><strong>
620: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
621: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 622: 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 623: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 624: <p>
625:
1.216 jose 626: <li><strong>
627: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
628: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 629: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
630: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 631: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
632: user groups.
633: <p>
634:
1.236 jose 635: <li><strong>
636: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 637: Group</a></strong>,
638: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 639: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
640: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
641: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
642: <p>
643:
1.216 jose 644: <li><strong>
645: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
646: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 647: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 648: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 649: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
650: <p>
651:
1.216 jose 652: <li><strong>
653: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
654: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 655: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
656: CD sets and Tshirts.
657: <p>
1.236 jose 658: </ul>
1.185 miod 659:
1.161 millert 660: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 661:
662: <ul>
663: <li><strong>
664: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 665: Congress</a></strong>,
666: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 667: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
668: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 669: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
670: <p>
1.177 jason 671:
1.216 jose 672: <li><strong>
673: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
674: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 675: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 676: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 677: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
678: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 679: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 680: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
681: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 682: <p>
1.178 pb 683:
1.216 jose 684: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 685: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 686: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
687: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 688: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
689: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
690: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
691: <p>
692:
1.216 jose 693: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 694: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
695: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
696: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
697: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
698: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
699: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
700: <p>
701:
702: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 703: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
704: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 705: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
706: Niels Provos presented his
707: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
708: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 709: <p>
1.172 miod 710:
1.216 jose 711: <li><strong>
712: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
713: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 714: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
715: <p>
716:
1.216 jose 717: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 718: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 719: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
720: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 721: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
722: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 723: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 724: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 725: <p>
1.168 miod 726:
1.216 jose 727: <li><strong>
728: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
729: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 730: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 731: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
732: are available.
1.161 millert 733: <p>
734:
1.216 jose 735: <li><strong>
736: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
737: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 738: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
739: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
740: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
741: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
742: <p>
743:
1.216 jose 744: <li><strong>
745: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
746: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 747: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
748: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
749: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
750: <p>
1.236 jose 751: </ul>
1.164 millert 752:
1.152 jakob 753: <h3>2001</h3>
754:
1.236 jose 755: <ul>
1.216 jose 756: <li><strong>
757: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
758: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 759: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
760: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
761: <p>
762:
1.216 jose 763: <li><strong>
764: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
765: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 766: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
767: <p>
768:
1.158 deraadt 769: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 770: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 771: 2001</a></strong>,
772: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 773: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
774: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
775: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
776: <p>
777:
1.216 jose 778: <li><strong>
779: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
780: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 781: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
782: <p>
783:
1.201 deraadt 784: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 785: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 786: Jakob and Itojun were there.
787: <p>
1.158 deraadt 788:
1.150 wvdputte 789: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 790: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 791: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 792: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
793: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
794: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 795: <p>
1.137 aaron 796:
797: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 798: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 799: Conference</a></strong>,
800: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 801: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
802: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
803: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
804: <p>
805:
806: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 807: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 808: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 809: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
810: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
811: <p>
812:
813: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 814: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 815: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
816: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 817: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
818: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
819: <p>
820:
821: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 822: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 823: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
824: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 825: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
826: <p>
827:
828: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 829: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 830: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 831: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 832: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
833: security community.
834: <p>
835:
836: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 837: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 838: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
839: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 840: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
841: <p>
842:
843: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 844: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 845: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 846: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 847: <p>
1.236 jose 848: </ul>
1.137 aaron 849:
1.132 louis 850: <h3>2000</h3>
851:
1.236 jose 852: <ul>
1.132 louis 853: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 854: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 855: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
856: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 857: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
858: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
859: <p>
860:
861: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 862: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 863: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 864: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
865: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
866: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
867: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 868: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 869: <p>
870:
871: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 872: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 873: 2000</a></strong>,
874: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 875: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 876: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 877: <p>
1.4 millert 878:
1.132 louis 879: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 880: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 881: Summit</a></strong>,
882: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 883: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 884: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
885: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
886:
887: <ul>
1.236 jose 888: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 889: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 890: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
891: </ul>
1.4 millert 892: <p>
1.132 louis 893:
1.7 deraadt 894: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 895: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 896: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 897: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
898: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 899: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 900: mind (drinks afterwards).
901: <p>
902:
1.216 jose 903: <li><strong>
904: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
905: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 906: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
907: questions.
1.32 deraadt 908: <p>
1.1 deraadt 909:
1.132 louis 910: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 911: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 912: Revolution</a></strong>,
913: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 914: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
915: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 916: <p>
917:
1.132 louis 918: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 919: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
920: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 921: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
922: <ul>
1.236 jose 923: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 924: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 925: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 926: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
927: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
928: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 929: <p>
1.132 louis 930:
1.10 provos 931: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 932: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 933: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 934: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 935: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
936: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
937: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
938: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
939: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
940: <br>
941: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
942: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
943: <p>
1.32 deraadt 944:
1.132 louis 945: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 946: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 947: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
948: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
949: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 950: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
951: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
952: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
953: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
954: and spoke about
955: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 956: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 957: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 958: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 959: <p>
1.132 louis 960:
1.6 deraadt 961: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 962: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 963: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 964: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
965: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
966: <br>
967: Christian Weisgerber gave a
968: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
969: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 970: <p>
1.1 deraadt 971:
1.216 jose 972: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 973: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 974: Conference.</a></strong>,
975: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 976: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
977: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
978: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
979: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
980: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 981: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 982: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
983: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
984: <ul>
985:
986: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
987: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 988: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 989: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
990: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
991:
992: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
993: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 994: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 995: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
996: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 997:
1.132 louis 998: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
999: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1000: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1001: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1002: <p>
1003:
1.132 louis 1004: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1005: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1006: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1007: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1008: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1009: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1010: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1011: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1012:
1.132 louis 1013: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1014: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1015: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1016: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1017: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1018: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1019: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1020: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1021: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1022:
1.17 deraadt 1023: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1024: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1025: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1026: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1027: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1028: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1029: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1030: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1031: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1032:
1.23 niklas 1033: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1034: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1035: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1036: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1037: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1038: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1039: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1040: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1041: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1042: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1043: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1044:
1.132 louis 1045: <li><strong>
1046: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1047: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1048: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1049: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1050: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1051: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1052: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1053: <p>
1.23 niklas 1054:
1.31 deraadt 1055: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1056: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1057: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1058: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1059: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1060: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1061: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1062: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1063: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1064: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1065:
1.201 deraadt 1066: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1067: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1068: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1069: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1070: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1071: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1072: <p>
1.236 jose 1073: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1074:
1.132 louis 1075: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1076:
1.236 jose 1077: <ul>
1.216 jose 1078: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1079: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1080: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1081: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 1082: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
1083: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1084: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1085: <p>
1086:
1.216 jose 1087: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1088: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1089: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1090: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1091: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1092: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1093: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1094: There were many other OpenBSD
1095: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1096: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
1097:
1098: <ul>
1099: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1100: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1101: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1102: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1103: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1104: </ul>
1105: <p>
1106:
1107: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1108: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1109: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1110: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1111: <p>
1112:
1113: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1114: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1115: Software '99</a></strong>,
1116: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1117: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1118: <a
1119: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1120: <p>
1121:
1122: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1123: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1124: 1999</a></strong>,
1125: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1126: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1127: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1128: <p>
1129:
1.236 jose 1130: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1131: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1132: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1133: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1134: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1135: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1136: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1137: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1138: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1139: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1140: conference in Stockholm.
1141: <p>
1142:
1143: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1144: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1145: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1146: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1147: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1148: coordinated.
1149: <p>
1150:
1151: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1152: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1153: Security</a></strong>,
1154: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1155: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1156: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1157: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1158: significant security roles.
1159: <p>
1160:
1161: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1162: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1163: meeting</a></strong>,
1164: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1165: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1166: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1167: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1168: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1169: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1170: <p>
1.45 jason 1171:
1.132 louis 1172: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1173: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1174: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1175: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1176: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1177: <p>
1.132 louis 1178:
1.236 jose 1179: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1180: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1181: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1182: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1183: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1184: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1185: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1186: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1187: June.)
1.132 louis 1188: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1189: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1190: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1191:
1.46 deraadt 1192: <ul>
1.236 jose 1193: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 1194: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1195: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1196: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1197: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1198: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1199: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1200: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1201: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1202: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1203: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1204: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1205: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1206: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1207: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1208: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1209: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1210: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1211: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1212: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1213: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1214: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1215: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1216: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1217: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1218: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1219: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1220:
1.51 deraadt 1221: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1222: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1223: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1224: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1225: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1226: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1227: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1228: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1229: <p>
1230:
1.53 jakob 1231: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1232: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1233: meeting</a></strong>,
1234: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1235: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1236: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1237: <p>
1238:
1.132 louis 1239: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1240: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1241: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1242: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1243: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1244: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1245: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1246: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1247: <p>
1.236 jose 1248: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1249:
1.132 louis 1250: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1251:
1.236 jose 1252: <ul>
1.132 louis 1253: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1254: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1255: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1256: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1257: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 1258: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1259: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1260: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1261: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1262: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1263: <p>
1264:
1.236 jose 1265: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1266: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1267: Conference</a></strong>,
1268: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1269: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1270: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1271: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1272: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1273: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1274: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1275: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1276: <br>
1277: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1278: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1279: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1280: <p>
1281:
1.73 deraadt 1282: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1283: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1284: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1285: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1286: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1287: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1288: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1289: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1290: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1291:
1.236 jose 1292: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1293: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1294: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1295: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1296: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1297: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1298: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1299: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1300:
1.80 deraadt 1301: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1302: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1303: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1304: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1305: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1306: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1307: <p>
1308:
1.93 louis 1309: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1310: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1311: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1312: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1313: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1314: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1315: <p>
1316:
1.216 jose 1317: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1318: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1319: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1320: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1321: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1322: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1323: <p>
1324:
1.236 jose 1325: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1326: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1327: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1328: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1329: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1330: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1331: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1332: <br>
1333: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1334: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1335: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1336: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1337: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1338:
1.236 jose 1339: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1340: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1341: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1342: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1343: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1344: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1345: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1346: <p>
1347:
1.236 jose 1348: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1349: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1350: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1351: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1352: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1353: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1354: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1355: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1356: <br>
1357: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1358: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1359: <p>
1360:
1.105 wvdputte 1361: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1362: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1363: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1364: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1365: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1366: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1367: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1368: <br>
1.132 louis 1369: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1370: <p>
1.236 jose 1371: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1372:
1.132 louis 1373: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1374:
1.236 jose 1375: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1376: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1377: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1378: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1379: Niels held a
1380: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1381: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1382: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1383: <p>
1.132 louis 1384:
1.236 jose 1385: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1386: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1387: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1388: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1389: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1390: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1391:
1.236 jose 1392: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1393: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1394: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1395: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1396: <br>
1397: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1398: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1399: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1400: <p>
1401:
1.125 deraadt 1402: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1403: <a
1404: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1405: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1406: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1407: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1408: </ul>
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