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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>
1.332 saad 28: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1.333 saad 29: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.332 saad 30: April 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
31: Peter N. M. Hansteen will give a firewalling with PF talk - hopefully
32: giving you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
33: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
34: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
35: a hard time. The talk will be in Norwegian, with <a
36: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
37: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
38: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
39: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
40: available if you can't make it there.
41: <p>
42:
1.334 reyk 43: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
44: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
45: April 15, 2005, Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.335 reyk 46: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter have been invited to the next technical
1.334 reyk 47: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
48: will present his talk on OpenBGPD.
49: <p>
50:
1.327 henning 51: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
52: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
53: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
54: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD, likely on the 3rd.
55: RIPE Meetings are open to everyone and provide an excellent opportunity
56: to take part in Internet policy discussions.
57: <p>
58:
1.324 mcbride 59: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
60: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
61: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
62: There will be a number of OpenBSD developers in attendance, including
63: Theo de Raadt and Ryan McBride. We'll have early access 3.7 CDs to sell, and
64: Ryan McBride may be presenting a talk on Network Stack Randomness: how it
65: protects against known and unknown attacks, and details of OpenBSDs
66: implementation.
1.323 mcbride 67: <p>
68:
1.302 mcbride 69: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1.303 mcbride 70: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1.302 mcbride 71: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
72: A number of OpenBSD developers will be presenting: Bob Beck on
73: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1.309 henning 74: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
75: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL.
1.302 mcbride 76: Expect to find other OpenBSD developers in attendance as well.
1.328 mcbride 77: <p>
78:
79: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
80: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
81: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
82: Ryan McBride will speak about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
83: A broad overview of PF's features will be presented, with special attention
84: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
85: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
1.336 deraadt 86: <br>
1.328 mcbride 87: The other major PF developers will also be in attendance and available to answer
1.329 mcbride 88: questions: Bob Beck (Edmonton) who did spamd, Mike Frantzen (USA) who did the
1.328 mcbride 89: state engine, Daniel Hartmeier (Switzerland) who started it all, Markus Friedl
90: (Germany) who helped develop the grammar, and Henning Brauer (Germany) who
91: integrated PF with ALTQ bandwidth shaping and pushed us to fix some early load
1.330 deraadt 92: problems, and Theo de Raadt who deleted that non-free Australian junk and
93: created the opportunity for this crazy bunch of people to get together.
1.336 deraadt 94: <br>
1.331 deraadt 95: There will be brand new OpenBSD 3.7 CDs and tshirts and posters for sale
96: at this event.....
1.336 deraadt 97: <p>
98:
99: <li><strong><a name=softlibre2005></a>
100: <a href="http://www.softlibre.org.ar">
101: Segundo Congreso Nacional de Software Libre - USUARIA 2005</a></strong>,
102: June 6-7, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<br>
103: Theo is (very likely) presenting a keynote about what things should be free.
104: <p>
105:
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1.152 jakob 123: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 125: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 126:
127: <ul>
1.337 ! deraadt 128:
! 129: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
! 130: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
! 131: March 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
! 132: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
! 133: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
! 134: applications and compares PF with the other major commercial and open
! 135: source firewalls.
! 136: <p>
! 137:
1.317 henning 138: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
139: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
140: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 141: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 142: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 143: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 144: <p>
145:
1.312 deraadt 146: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
147: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
148: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 149: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
150: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 151: <p>
152:
1.319 saad 153: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
154: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
155: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
156: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
157: <p>
158:
1.310 mickey 159: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
160: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
161: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 162: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 163: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
164: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 165: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 166: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 167: <p>
1.312 deraadt 168:
1.308 deraadt 169: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
170: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
171: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
172: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 173: talks. Topics included
174: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 175: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
176: OpenBGPD, and pf.
177: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 178: <p>
179:
1.304 saad 180: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
181: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
182: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
183: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
184: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 185: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 186: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.316 mbalmer 187: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink, Olivier Cherrier,
188: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 189: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
190: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
191: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
192: <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>
193: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
194: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
195: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
196: <p>
1.301 saad 197: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
198: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
199: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
200: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
201: <p>
202: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
203: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
204: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
205: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
206: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
207: <p>
1.293 saad 208: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
209: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
210: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
211: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
212: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
213: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 214: french translation team.<br>
215: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
216: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
217: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
218: available.<br>
219: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 220: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
221: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
222: <p>
1.296 mcbride 223: </ul>
1.293 saad 224:
1.296 mcbride 225: <h3>2004</h3>
226:
227: <ul>
1.287 henning 228: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
229: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
230: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
231: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
232: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
233: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 234: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 235: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
236: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
237: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
238: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
239: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
240: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 241: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 242: driver.
243: <p>
1.248 deraadt 244:
1.286 kevlo 245: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
246: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
247: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
248: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
249: <p>
250:
1.285 deraadt 251: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
252: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
253: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
254: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
255: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
256: <p>
257:
1.283 saad 258: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
259: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
260: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
261: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
262: meeting of the
263: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
264: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 265: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 266: <p>
267:
1.282 henning 268: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
269: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
270: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
271: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
272: two days, on bgpd
273: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
274: ntpd
275: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
276: and signal handlers
277: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
278: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
279: <p>
280:
1.275 deraadt 281: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
282: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
283: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
284: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
285: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
286: Room B-02 of the
287: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
288: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
289: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
290: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
291: The talk was also given the following day at the
292: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
293: <p>
294:
1.271 henning 295: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
296: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
297: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 298: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
299: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 300: Henning gave a talk
1.272 henning 301: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
302: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 303: <p>
304:
305: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
306: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
307: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 308: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
309: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 310: <p>
311:
1.276 deraadt 312: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 313: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
314: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
315: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
316: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
317: <p>
318:
319: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 320: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
321: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
322: <p>
323:
324: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
325: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
326: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
327: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
328: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
329: <p>
330:
1.268 krw 331: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
332: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
333: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
334: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
335: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
336: <p>
337:
338: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
339: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
340: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
341: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
342: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
346: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
347: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
348: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
349: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
350: <p>
351:
1.265 wvdputte 352: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
353: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
354: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
355: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
356: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
357: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
358: event."
359: <br>
360: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
361: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
362: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
363: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
364: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
365: <br>
366: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
367: <p>
368:
1.262 henning 369: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
370: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
371: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
372: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
373: Henning's slides from his talks about
374: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
375: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
376: are available.
377: <p>
378:
1.261 deraadt 379: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 380: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 381: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
382: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
383: newly extended version of the
384: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
385: For more information, see this
386: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
387: ComputerWorld article</a>.
388: <p>
389:
390:
1.257 saad 391: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
392: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
393: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
394: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
395: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
396: <p>
397:
398: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
399: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
400: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
401: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
402: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
403: <p>
404:
1.256 mickey 405: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
406: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
407: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
408: session.
409: <p>
410:
1.254 xsa 411: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 412: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 413: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
414: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
415: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
416: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
417: a basic talk about pf.
418: <p>
419:
1.248 deraadt 420: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 421: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 422: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
423: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 424: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
425: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
426: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 427: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
428: <p>
429:
1.247 canacar 430: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
431: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
432: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
433: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
434: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
435: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
436: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
437: projects were discussed.<br>
438: You can view the
1.281 canacar 439: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 440: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 441: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 442: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
443: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
444: <p>
445:
1.242 henning 446: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
447: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
448: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 449: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
450: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
451: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
452: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
453: and systrace
1.263 saad 454: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 455: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
456: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
457: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 458: <p>
459:
1.240 espie 460: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
461: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
462: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
463: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
464: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
465: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
466: <p>
467:
468: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
469: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
470: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
471: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
472: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
473: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
474: <p>
475: </ul>
476:
1.188 henning 477: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 478:
479: <ul>
1.232 jose 480: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
481: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
482: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
483: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
484: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 485: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 486: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 487: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 488: <p>
1.232 jose 489:
1.228 jose 490: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 491: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 492: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
493: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 494: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
495: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 496: with OpenBSD PF.
497: <p>
498:
499: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
500: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
501: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
502: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
503: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 504: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
505: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
506: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
507: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 508: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 509: slides in PDF format </a>
510: (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 511: <p>
512:
1.227 jose 513: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
514: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
515: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
516: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
517: <p>
518:
519: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
520: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
521: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 522: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 523: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 524: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
525: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 526: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 527: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 528: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 529: in Internet worm defenses.
530: <p>
531:
1.224 miod 532: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
533: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
534: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
535: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
536: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
537: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
538: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
539: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
540: OpenBSD.
541: <p>
542:
543: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
544: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
545: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
546: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
547: <p>
548:
549: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
550: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
551: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
552: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
553: <p>
554:
1.219 jose 555: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
556: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
557: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 558: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 559: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
560: <p>
561:
1.218 jose 562: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
563: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
564: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 565: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 566: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
567: <p>
568:
1.214 henning 569: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
570: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 571: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 572: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
573: <p>
574:
1.213 jose 575: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
576: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 577: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 578: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 579: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
580: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
581: <p>
582:
1.211 jose 583: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
584: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 585: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 586: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
587: <p>
588:
589: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
590: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 591: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 592: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 593: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
594: <p>
595:
1.209 wvdputte 596: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
597: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 598: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 599: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
600: <p>
1.195 deraadt 601:
1.202 jason 602: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 603: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 604: Conference</a></strong>,
605: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 606: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
607: <ul>
1.216 jose 608: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 609: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 610: Angelos D. Keromytis,
611: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 612: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 613: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
614: </ul>
615: <p>
616:
1.201 deraadt 617: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 618: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 619: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
620: session.
621: <p>
622:
1.216 jose 623: <li><strong>
624: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
625: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 626: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
627: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
628: <p>
629:
1.216 jose 630: <li><strong>
631: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
632: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 633: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 634: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 635: <p>
636:
1.216 jose 637: <li><strong>
638: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
639: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 640: 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 641: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 642: <p>
643:
1.216 jose 644: <li><strong>
645: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
646: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 647: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
648: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 649: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
650: user groups.
651: <p>
652:
1.236 jose 653: <li><strong>
654: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 655: Group</a></strong>,
656: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 657: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
658: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
659: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
660: <p>
661:
1.216 jose 662: <li><strong>
663: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
664: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 665: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 666: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 667: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
668: <p>
669:
1.216 jose 670: <li><strong>
671: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
672: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 673: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
674: CD sets and Tshirts.
675: <p>
1.236 jose 676: </ul>
1.185 miod 677:
1.161 millert 678: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 679:
680: <ul>
681: <li><strong>
682: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 683: Congress</a></strong>,
684: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 685: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
686: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 687: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
688: <p>
1.177 jason 689:
1.216 jose 690: <li><strong>
691: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
692: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 693: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 694: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 695: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
696: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 697: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 698: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
699: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 700: <p>
1.178 pb 701:
1.216 jose 702: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 703: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 704: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
705: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 706: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
707: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
708: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
709: <p>
710:
1.216 jose 711: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 712: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
713: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
714: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
715: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
716: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
717: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
718: <p>
719:
720: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 721: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
722: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 723: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
724: Niels Provos presented his
725: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
726: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 727: <p>
1.172 miod 728:
1.216 jose 729: <li><strong>
730: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
731: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 732: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
733: <p>
734:
1.216 jose 735: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 736: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 737: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
738: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 739: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
740: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 741: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 742: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 743: <p>
1.168 miod 744:
1.216 jose 745: <li><strong>
746: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
747: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 748: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 749: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
750: are available.
1.161 millert 751: <p>
752:
1.216 jose 753: <li><strong>
754: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
755: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 756: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
757: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
758: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
759: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
760: <p>
761:
1.216 jose 762: <li><strong>
763: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
764: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 765: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
766: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
767: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
768: <p>
1.236 jose 769: </ul>
1.164 millert 770:
1.152 jakob 771: <h3>2001</h3>
772:
1.236 jose 773: <ul>
1.216 jose 774: <li><strong>
775: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
776: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 777: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
778: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
779: <p>
780:
1.216 jose 781: <li><strong>
782: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
783: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 784: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
785: <p>
786:
1.158 deraadt 787: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 788: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 789: 2001</a></strong>,
790: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 791: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
792: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
793: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
794: <p>
795:
1.216 jose 796: <li><strong>
797: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
798: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 799: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
800: <p>
801:
1.201 deraadt 802: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 803: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 804: Jakob and Itojun were there.
805: <p>
1.158 deraadt 806:
1.150 wvdputte 807: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 808: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 809: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 810: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
811: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
812: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 813: <p>
1.137 aaron 814:
815: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 816: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 817: Conference</a></strong>,
818: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 819: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
820: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
821: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
822: <p>
823:
824: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 825: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 826: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 827: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
828: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
829: <p>
830:
831: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 832: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 833: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
834: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 835: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
836: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
837: <p>
838:
839: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 840: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 841: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
842: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 843: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
844: <p>
845:
846: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 847: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 848: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 849: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 850: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
851: security community.
852: <p>
853:
854: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 855: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 856: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
857: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 858: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
859: <p>
860:
861: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 862: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 863: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 864: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 865: <p>
1.236 jose 866: </ul>
1.137 aaron 867:
1.132 louis 868: <h3>2000</h3>
869:
1.236 jose 870: <ul>
1.132 louis 871: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 872: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 873: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
874: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 875: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
876: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
877: <p>
878:
879: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 880: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 881: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 882: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
883: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
884: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
885: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 886: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 887: <p>
888:
889: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 890: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 891: 2000</a></strong>,
892: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 893: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 894: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 895: <p>
1.4 millert 896:
1.132 louis 897: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 898: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 899: Summit</a></strong>,
900: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 901: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 902: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
903: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
904:
905: <ul>
1.236 jose 906: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 907: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 908: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
909: </ul>
1.4 millert 910: <p>
1.132 louis 911:
1.7 deraadt 912: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 913: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 914: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 915: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
916: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 917: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 918: mind (drinks afterwards).
919: <p>
920:
1.216 jose 921: <li><strong>
922: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
923: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 924: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
925: questions.
1.32 deraadt 926: <p>
1.1 deraadt 927:
1.132 louis 928: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 929: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 930: Revolution</a></strong>,
931: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 932: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
933: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 934: <p>
935:
1.132 louis 936: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 937: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
938: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 939: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
940: <ul>
1.236 jose 941: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 942: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 943: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 944: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
945: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
946: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 947: <p>
1.132 louis 948:
1.10 provos 949: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 950: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 951: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 952: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 953: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
954: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
955: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
956: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
957: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
958: <br>
959: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
960: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
961: <p>
1.32 deraadt 962:
1.132 louis 963: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 964: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 965: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
966: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
967: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 968: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
969: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
970: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
971: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
972: and spoke about
973: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 974: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 975: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 976: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 977: <p>
1.132 louis 978:
1.6 deraadt 979: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 980: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 981: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 982: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
983: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
984: <br>
985: Christian Weisgerber gave a
986: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
987: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 988: <p>
1.1 deraadt 989:
1.216 jose 990: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 991: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 992: Conference.</a></strong>,
993: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 994: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
995: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
996: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
997: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
998: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 999: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1000: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1001: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1002: <ul>
1003:
1004: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1005: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1006: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1007: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1008: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1009:
1010: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1011: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1012: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1013: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1014: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1015:
1.132 louis 1016: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1017: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1018: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1019: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1020: <p>
1021:
1.132 louis 1022: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1023: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1024: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1025: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1026: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1027: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1028: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1029: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1030:
1.132 louis 1031: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1032: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1033: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1034: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1035: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1036: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1037: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1038: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1039: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1040:
1.17 deraadt 1041: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1042: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1043: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1044: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1045: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1046: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1047: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1048: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1049: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1050:
1.23 niklas 1051: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1052: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1053: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1054: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1055: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1056: efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1057: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1058: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1059: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1060: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1061: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1062:
1.132 louis 1063: <li><strong>
1064: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1065: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1066: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1067: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1068: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1069: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1070: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1071: <p>
1.23 niklas 1072:
1.31 deraadt 1073: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1074: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1075: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1076: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1077: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1078: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1079: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1080: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1081: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1082: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1083:
1.201 deraadt 1084: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1085: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1086: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1087: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1088: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1089: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1090: <p>
1.236 jose 1091: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1092:
1.132 louis 1093: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1094:
1.236 jose 1095: <ul>
1.216 jose 1096: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1097: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1098: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1099: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 1100: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
1101: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1102: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1103: <p>
1104:
1.216 jose 1105: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1106: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1107: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1108: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1109: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1110: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1111: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1112: There were many other OpenBSD
1113: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1114: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
1115:
1116: <ul>
1117: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1118: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1119: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1120: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1121: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1122: </ul>
1123: <p>
1124:
1125: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1126: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1127: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1128: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1129: <p>
1130:
1131: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1132: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1133: Software '99</a></strong>,
1134: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1135: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1136: <a
1137: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1138: <p>
1139:
1140: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1141: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1142: 1999</a></strong>,
1143: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1144: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1145: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1146: <p>
1147:
1.236 jose 1148: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1149: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1150: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1151: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1152: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1153: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1154: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1155: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1156: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1157: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1158: conference in Stockholm.
1159: <p>
1160:
1161: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1162: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1163: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1164: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1165: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1166: coordinated.
1167: <p>
1168:
1169: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1170: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1171: Security</a></strong>,
1172: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1173: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1174: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1175: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1176: significant security roles.
1177: <p>
1178:
1179: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1180: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1181: meeting</a></strong>,
1182: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1183: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1184: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1185: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1186: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1187: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1188: <p>
1.45 jason 1189:
1.132 louis 1190: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1191: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1192: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1193: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1194: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1195: <p>
1.132 louis 1196:
1.236 jose 1197: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1198: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1199: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1200: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1201: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1202: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1203: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1204: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1205: June.)
1.132 louis 1206: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1207: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1208: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1209:
1.46 deraadt 1210: <ul>
1.236 jose 1211: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66 deraadt 1212: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1213: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1214: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1215: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1216: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1217: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1218: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1219: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1220: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1221: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1222: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1223: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1224: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1225: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1226: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1227: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1228: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1229: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1230: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1231: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1232: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1233: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1234: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1235: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1236: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1237: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1238:
1.51 deraadt 1239: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1240: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1241: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1242: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1243: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1244: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1245: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1246: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1247: <p>
1248:
1.53 jakob 1249: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1250: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1251: meeting</a></strong>,
1252: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1253: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1254: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1255: <p>
1256:
1.132 louis 1257: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1258: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1259: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1260: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1261: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1262: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1263: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1264: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1265: <p>
1.236 jose 1266: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1267:
1.132 louis 1268: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1269:
1.236 jose 1270: <ul>
1.132 louis 1271: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1272: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1273: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1274: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1275: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236 jose 1276: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1277: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1278: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1279: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1280: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1281: <p>
1282:
1.236 jose 1283: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1284: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1285: Conference</a></strong>,
1286: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1287: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1288: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1289: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1290: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1291: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1292: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1293: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1294: <br>
1295: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1296: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1297: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1298: <p>
1299:
1.73 deraadt 1300: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1301: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1302: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1303: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1304: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1305: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1306: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1307: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1308: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1309:
1.236 jose 1310: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1311: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1312: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1313: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1314: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1315: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1316: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1317: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1318:
1.80 deraadt 1319: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1320: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1321: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1322: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1323: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1324: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1325: <p>
1326:
1.93 louis 1327: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1328: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1329: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1330: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1331: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1332: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1333: <p>
1334:
1.216 jose 1335: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1336: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1337: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1338: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1339: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1340: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1341: <p>
1342:
1.236 jose 1343: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1344: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1345: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1346: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1347: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1348: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1349: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1350: <br>
1351: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1352: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1353: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1354: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1355: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1356:
1.236 jose 1357: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1358: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1359: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1360: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1361: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1362: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1363: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1364: <p>
1365:
1.236 jose 1366: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1367: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1368: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1369: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1370: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1371: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1372: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1373: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1374: <br>
1375: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1376: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1377: <p>
1378:
1.105 wvdputte 1379: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1380: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1381: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1382: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1383: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1384: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1385: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1386: <br>
1.132 louis 1387: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1388: <p>
1.236 jose 1389: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1390:
1.132 louis 1391: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1392:
1.236 jose 1393: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1394: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1395: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1396: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1397: Niels held a
1398: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1399: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1400: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1401: <p>
1.132 louis 1402:
1.236 jose 1403: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1404: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1405: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1406: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1407: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1408: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1409:
1.236 jose 1410: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1411: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1412: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1413: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1414: <br>
1415: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1416: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1417: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1418: <p>
1419:
1.125 deraadt 1420: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1421: <a
1422: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1423: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1424: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1425: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1426: </ul>
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