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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 &quot;Birds Of a Feather&quot; (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>
                     22:
                     23: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132     louis      24:
1.287     henning    25: <h3>2005</h3>
1.236     jose       26:
                     27: <ul>
1.346     marius     28:
                     29: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
                     30: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
                     31: Technical Conference</a></strong>, April 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
                     32: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen will be giving the OpenBSD update
1.348     deraadt    33: in the BSD super BoF.  The BoF is Wednesday, April 13 starting at 19:30.
1.346     marius     34: <p>
                     35:
1.332     saad       36: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1.333     saad       37: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.332     saad       38: April 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
                     39: Peter N. M. Hansteen will give a firewalling with PF talk - hopefully
                     40: giving you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
                     41: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
                     42: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
                     43: a hard time. The talk will be in Norwegian, with <a
                     44: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
                     45: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
                     46: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
                     47: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
                     48: available if you can't make it there.
                     49: <p>
                     50:
1.334     reyk       51: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
                     52: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
                     53: April 15, 2005, Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.335     reyk       54: Henning Brauer and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter have been invited to the next technical
1.334     reyk       55: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
                     56: will present his talk on OpenBGPD.
                     57: <p>
                     58:
1.327     henning    59: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
                     60: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
                     61: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
                     62: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD, likely on the 3rd.
                     63: RIPE Meetings are open to everyone and provide an excellent opportunity
                     64: to take part in Internet policy discussions.
                     65: <p>
                     66:
1.324     mcbride    67: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
                     68: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
                     69: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
                     70: There will be a number of OpenBSD developers in attendance, including
                     71: Theo de Raadt and Ryan McBride. We'll have early access 3.7 CDs to sell, and
                     72: Ryan McBride may be presenting a talk on Network Stack Randomness: how it
                     73: protects against known and unknown attacks, and details of OpenBSDs
                     74: implementation.
1.323     mcbride    75: <p>
                     76:
1.302     mcbride    77: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1.303     mcbride    78: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1.302     mcbride    79: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                     80: A number of OpenBSD developers will be presenting: Bob Beck on
                     81: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1.309     henning    82: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Fl&ouml;ter
                     83: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL.
1.302     mcbride    84: Expect to find other OpenBSD developers in attendance as well.
1.328     mcbride    85: <p>
                     86:
                     87: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
                     88: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
                     89: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
                     90: Ryan McBride will speak about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
                     91: A broad overview of PF's features will be presented, with special attention
                     92: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
                     93: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
1.336     deraadt    94: <br>
1.328     mcbride    95: The other major PF developers will also be in attendance and available to answer
1.329     mcbride    96: questions: Bob Beck (Edmonton) who did spamd, Mike Frantzen (USA) who did the
1.328     mcbride    97: state engine, Daniel Hartmeier (Switzerland) who started it all, Markus Friedl
                     98: (Germany) who helped develop the grammar, and Henning Brauer (Germany) who
                     99: integrated PF with ALTQ bandwidth shaping and pushed us to fix some early load
1.330     deraadt   100: problems, and Theo de Raadt who deleted that non-free Australian junk and
                    101: created the opportunity for this crazy bunch of people to get together.
1.336     deraadt   102: <br>
1.331     deraadt   103: There will be brand new OpenBSD 3.7 CDs and tshirts and posters for sale
                    104: at this event.....
1.336     deraadt   105: <p>
                    106:
                    107: <li><strong><a name=softlibre2005></a>
                    108: <a href="http://www.softlibre.org.ar">
                    109: Segundo Congreso Nacional de Software Libre - USUARIA 2005</a></strong>,
                    110: June 6-7, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina.<br>
                    111: Theo is (very likely) presenting a keynote about what things should be free.
                    112: <p>
                    113:
1.349   ! beck      114: <li><strong><a name=uofa-cc2005></a> <a
        !           115: href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
        !           116: Computing 2005</a></strong>, June 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada<br> Ryan
        !           117: McBride will speak about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
        !           118: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
        !           119: Beck. Bob Beck will speak about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
        !           120: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
        !           121: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
        !           122: <p>
        !           123:
1.236     jose      124: </ul>
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1.152     jakob     141: <h2>Past events:</h2>
                    142:
1.296     mcbride   143: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240     espie     144:
                    145: <ul>
1.337     deraadt   146:
1.345     henning   147: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
                    148: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
                    149: April 13, 2005, 17:00, H&ouml;rsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
                    150: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
                    151: <p>
                    152:
1.344     martin    153: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
                    154: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
                    155: April 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
                    156: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
                    157: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
                    158: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
                    159: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
                    160: (in French) are available.
                    161: <p>
                    162:
1.337     deraadt   163: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
                    164: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
                    165: March 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
                    166: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
                    167: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338     deraadt   168: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337     deraadt   169: source firewalls.
                    170: <p>
                    171:
1.317     henning   172: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
                    173: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
                    174: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318     henning   175: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326     mcbride   176: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318     henning   177: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317     henning   178: <p>
                    179:
1.312     deraadt   180: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
                    181: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
                    182: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320     deraadt   183: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
                    184: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312     deraadt   185: <p>
                    186:
1.319     saad      187: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
                    188: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
                    189: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
                    190: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
                    191: <p>
                    192:
1.310     mickey    193: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
                    194: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
                    195: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322     deraadt   196: Mickey gave a talk
1.325     mickey    197: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
                    198: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321     mickey    199: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313     martin    200: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310     mickey    201: <p>
1.312     deraadt   202:
1.308     deraadt   203: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
                    204: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
                    205: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
                    206: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320     deraadt   207: talks. Topics included
                    208: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326     mcbride   209: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
                    210: OpenBGPD, and pf.
                    211: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308     deraadt   212: <p>
                    213:
1.304     saad      214: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
                    215: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
                    216: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
                    217: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
                    218: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307     otto      219: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304     saad      220: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Hans-J&ouml;rg
1.316     mbalmer   221: H&ouml;xer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink, Olivier Cherrier,
                    222: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304     saad      223: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
                    224: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Fl&ouml;ter (about wireless cards in
                    225: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
                    226: <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>
                    227: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
                    228: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
                    229: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
                    230: <p>
1.301     saad      231: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
                    232: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
                    233: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
                    234: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
                    235: <p>
                    236: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
                    237: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
                    238: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
                    239: Reyk Fl&ouml;ter talked about the latest wireless support in
                    240: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
                    241: <p>
1.293     saad      242: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
                    243: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
                    244: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
                    245: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
                    246: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
                    247: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294     saad      248: french translation team.<br>
                    249: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
                    250: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
                    251: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
                    252: available.<br>
                    253: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293     saad      254: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
                    255: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
                    256: <p>
1.296     mcbride   257: </ul>
1.293     saad      258:
1.296     mcbride   259: <h3>2004</h3>
                    260:
                    261: <ul>
1.287     henning   262: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
                    263: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
                    264: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany</br>
                    265: &quot;The Usual Suspects&quot; were there and ran the BSD corner, including
                    266: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
                    267: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315     nick      268: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287     henning   269: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
                    270: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
                    271: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
                    272: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
                    273: work done by Reyk Fl&ouml;ter, Tim Kornau and others.
                    274: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290     henning   275: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287     henning   276: driver.
                    277: <p>
1.248     deraadt   278:
1.286     kevlo     279: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
                    280: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
                    281: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
                    282: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
                    283: <p>
                    284:
1.285     deraadt   285: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
                    286: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
                    287: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
                    288: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
                    289: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                    290: <p>
                    291:
1.283     saad      292: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
                    293: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
                    294: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                    295: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
                    296: meeting of the
                    297: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
                    298: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284     xsa       299: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283     saad      300: <p>
                    301:
1.282     henning   302: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
                    303: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
                    304: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
                    305: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
                    306: two days, on bgpd
                    307: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
                    308: ntpd
                    309: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
                    310: and signal handlers
                    311: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
                    312: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
                    313: <p>
                    314:
1.275     deraadt   315: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
                    316: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
                    317: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
                    318: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
                    319: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
                    320: Room B-02 of the
                    321: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
                    322: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
                    323: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
                    324: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
                    325: The talk was also given the following day at the
                    326: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
                    327: <p>
                    328:
1.271     henning   329: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
                    330: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
                    331: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning   332: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    333: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning   334: Henning gave a talk
1.272     henning   335: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
                    336: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271     henning   337: <p>
                    338:
                    339: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
                    340: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
                    341: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272     henning   342: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    343: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271     henning   344: <p>
                    345:
1.276     deraadt   346: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270     deraadt   347: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
                    348: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
                    349: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
                    350: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
                    351: <p>
                    352:
                    353: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269     krw       354: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
                    355: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
                    356: <p>
                    357:
                    358: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
                    359: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
                    360: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
                    361: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    362: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    363: <p>
                    364:
1.268     krw       365: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
                    366: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
                    367: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
                    368: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    369: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    370: <p>
                    371:
                    372: <li><strong><a name=Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004></a>
                    373: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
                    374: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
                    375: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
                    376: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
                    377: <p>
                    378:
                    379: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
                    380: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
                    381: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
                    382: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    383: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    384: <p>
                    385:
1.265     wvdputte  386: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
                    387: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
                    388: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
                    389: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
                    390: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
                    391: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
                    392: event."
                    393: <br>
                    394: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
                    395: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
                    396: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
                    397: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
                    398: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
                    399: <br>
                    400: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
                    401: <p>
                    402:
1.262     henning   403: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
                    404: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
                    405: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
                    406: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
                    407: Henning's slides from his talks about
                    408: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
                    409: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
                    410: are available.
                    411: <p>
                    412:
1.261     deraadt   413: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266     jolan     414: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261     deraadt   415: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
                    416: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
                    417: newly extended version of the
                    418: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
                    419: For more information, see this
                    420: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
                    421: ComputerWorld article</a>.
                    422: <p>
                    423:
                    424:
1.257     saad      425: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
                    426: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
                    427: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
                    428: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    429: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                    430: <p>
                    431:
                    432: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
                    433: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
                    434: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
                    435: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
                    436: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
                    437: <p>
                    438:
1.256     mickey    439: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
                    440: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
                    441: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
                    442: session.
                    443: <p>
                    444:
1.254     xsa       445: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255     xsa       446: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254     xsa       447: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
                    448: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
                    449: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
                    450: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
                    451: a basic talk about pf.
                    452: <p>
                    453:
1.248     deraadt   454: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303     mcbride   455: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248     deraadt   456: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
                    457: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa.  Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302     mcbride   458: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
                    459: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
                    460: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248     deraadt   461: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
                    462: <p>
                    463:
1.247     canacar   464: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
                    465: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
                    466: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
                    467: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
                    468: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
                    469: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &amp;
                    470: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
                    471: projects were discussed.<br>
                    472: You can view the
1.281     canacar   473: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247     canacar   474: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281     canacar   475: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247     canacar   476: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
                    477: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
                    478: <p>
                    479:
1.242     henning   480: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
                    481: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
                    482: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243     henning   483: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
                    484: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
                    485: Philipp B&uuml;hler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
                    486: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave &quot;lightning talks&quot; about Soekris
                    487: and systrace
1.263     saad      488: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243     henning   489: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
                    490: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
                    491: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242     henning   492: <p>
                    493:
1.240     espie     494: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
                    495: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
                    496: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
                    497: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
                    498: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
                    499: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    500: <p>
                    501:
                    502: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
                    503: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
                    504: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
                    505: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
                    506: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
                    507: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
                    508: <p>
                    509: </ul>
                    510:
1.188     henning   511: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236     jose      512:
                    513: <ul>
1.232     jose      514: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
                    515: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
                    516: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
                    517: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
                    518: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236     jose      519: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260     saad      520: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232     jose      521: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236     jose      522: <p>
1.232     jose      523:
1.228     jose      524: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236     jose      525: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228     jose      526: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
                    527: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236     jose      528: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
                    529: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228     jose      530: with OpenBSD PF.
                    531: <p>
                    532:
                    533: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
                    534: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
                    535: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
                    536: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
                    537: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236     jose      538: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
                    539: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
                    540: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
                    541: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281     canacar   542: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236     jose      543: slides in PDF format </a>
                    544: (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      545: <p>
                    546:
1.227     jose      547: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
                    548: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
                    549: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
                    550: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
                    551: <p>
                    552:
                    553: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
                    554: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
                    555: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236     jose      556: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227     jose      557: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236     jose      558: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
                    559: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227     jose      560: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236     jose      561: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241     david     562: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227     jose      563: in Internet worm defenses.
                    564: <p>
                    565:
1.224     miod      566: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
                    567: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>&egrave;mes</sup> Journ&eacute;es du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
                    568: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
                    569: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
                    570: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
                    571: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
                    572: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
                    573: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
                    574: OpenBSD.
                    575: <p>
                    576:
                    577: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
                    578: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbr&uuml;cken 2003</a></strong>,
                    579: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbr&uuml;cken, Germany.<br>
                    580: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
                    581: <p>
                    582:
                    583: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
                    584: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
                    585: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
                    586: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
                    587: <p>
                    588:
1.219     jose      589: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
                    590: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
                    591: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236     jose      592: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219     jose      593: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
                    594: <p>
                    595:
1.218     jose      596: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
                    597: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
                    598: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236     jose      599: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218     jose      600: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
                    601: <p>
                    602:
1.214     henning   603: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
                    604: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      605: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214     henning   606: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
                    607: <p>
                    608:
1.213     jose      609: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
                    610: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      611: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236     jose      612: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213     jose      613: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
                    614: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
                    615: <p>
                    616:
1.211     jose      617: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
                    618: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      619: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211     jose      620: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
                    621: <p>
                    622:
                    623: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
                    624: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      625: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212     matthieu  626: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211     jose      627: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                    628: <p>
                    629:
1.209     wvdputte  630: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
                    631: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      632: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209     wvdputte  633: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
                    634: <p>
1.195     deraadt   635:
1.202     jason     636: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236     jose      637: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose      638: Conference</a></strong>,
                    639: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202     jason     640: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                    641: <ul>
1.216     jose      642: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202     jason     643:     <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236     jose      644:     Angelos D. Keromytis,
                    645:     Jason L. Wright, and
1.205     deraadt   646:     Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202     jason     647:     <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
                    648: </ul>
                    649: <p>
                    650:
1.201     deraadt   651: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216     jose      652: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201     deraadt   653: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
                    654: session.
                    655: <p>
                    656:
1.216     jose      657: <li><strong>
                    658: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
                    659: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203     jason     660: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
                    661: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
                    662: <p>
                    663:
1.216     jose      664: <li><strong>
                    665: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
                    666: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195     deraadt   667: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196     matthieu  668: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195     deraadt   669: <p>
                    670:
1.216     jose      671: <li><strong>
                    672: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
                    673: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236     jose      674: 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  675: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194     henning   676: <p>
                    677:
1.216     jose      678: <li><strong>
                    679: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
                    680: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236     jose      681: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
                    682: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191     dhartmei  683: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
                    684: user groups.
                    685: <p>
                    686:
1.236     jose      687: <li><strong>
                    688: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216     jose      689: Group</a></strong>,
                    690: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190     miod      691: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
                    692: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
                    693: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
                    694: <p>
                    695:
1.216     jose      696: <li><strong>
                    697: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
                    698: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236     jose      699: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196     matthieu  700: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187     henning   701: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
                    702: <p>
                    703:
1.216     jose      704: <li><strong>
                    705: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
                    706: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185     miod      707: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
                    708: CD sets and Tshirts.
                    709: <p>
1.236     jose      710: </ul>
1.185     miod      711:
1.161     millert   712: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236     jose      713:
                    714: <ul>
                    715: <li><strong>
                    716: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216     jose      717: Congress</a></strong>,
                    718: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236     jose      719: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
                    720: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184     wvdputte  721: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
                    722: <p>
1.177     jason     723:
1.216     jose      724: <li><strong>
                    725: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
                    726: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181     henning   727: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236     jose      728: Philipp B&uuml;hler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182     ian       729: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
                    730: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236     jose      731: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182     ian       732: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
                    733: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179     pb        734: <p>
1.178     pb        735:
1.216     jose      736: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      737: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216     jose      738: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
                    739: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177     jason     740: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
                    741: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
                    742: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
                    743: <p>
                    744:
1.216     jose      745: <li><strong>
1.264     djm       746: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
                    747: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
                    748: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
                    749: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
                    750: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
                    751: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
                    752: <p>
                    753:
                    754: <li><strong>
1.216     jose      755: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
                    756: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172     miod      757: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
                    758: Niels Provos presented his
                    759: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
                    760: system call policy management tool.
1.174     nick      761: <p>
1.172     miod      762:
1.216     jose      763: <li><strong>
                    764: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
                    765: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171     ian       766: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                    767: <p>
                    768:
1.216     jose      769: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      770: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216     jose      771: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
                    772: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236     jose      773: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
                    774: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169     horacio   775: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236     jose      776: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169     horacio   777: <p>
1.168     miod      778:
1.216     jose      779: <li><strong>
                    780: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
                    781: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161     millert   782: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162     millert   783: BSD panel discussion.  The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
                    784: are available.
1.161     millert   785: <p>
                    786:
1.216     jose      787: <li><strong>
                    788: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
                    789: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163     miod      790: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
                    791: up with others on the expo's side.  On the first day, almost all the merchandise
                    792: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
                    793: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
                    794: <p>
                    795:
1.216     jose      796: <li><strong>
                    797: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
                    798: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164     millert   799: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
                    800: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
                    801: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
                    802: <p>
1.236     jose      803: </ul>
1.164     millert   804:
1.152     jakob     805: <h3>2001</h3>
                    806:
1.236     jose      807: <ul>
1.216     jose      808: <li><strong>
                    809: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
                    810: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160     jufi      811: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
                    812: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
                    813: <p>
                    814:
1.216     jose      815: <li><strong>
                    816: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
                    817: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160     jufi      818: Angelos, Itojun &amp; Jakob were there.
                    819: <p>
                    820:
1.158     deraadt   821: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      822: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216     jose      823: 2001</a></strong>,
                    824: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158     deraadt   825: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
                    826: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
                    827: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
                    828: <p>
                    829:
1.216     jose      830: <li><strong>
                    831: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
                    832: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156     provos    833: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
                    834: <p>
                    835:
1.201     deraadt   836: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216     jose      837: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156     provos    838: Jakob and Itojun were there.
                    839: <p>
1.158     deraadt   840:
1.150     wvdputte  841: <li><strong>
1.215     nick      842: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      843: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153     jufi      844: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
                    845: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
                    846: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150     wvdputte  847: <p>
1.137     aaron     848:
                    849: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      850: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose      851: Conference</a></strong>,
                    852: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148     brian     853: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                    854: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
                    855: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
                    856: <p>
                    857:
                    858: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   859: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      860: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148     brian     861: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
                    862: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
                    863: <p>
                    864:
                    865: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      866: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216     jose      867: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
                    868: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146     krw       869: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
                    870: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
                    871: <p>
                    872:
                    873: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      874: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216     jose      875: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
                    876: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146     krw       877: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
                    878: <p>
                    879:
                    880: <li><strong>
1.143     dugsong   881: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201     deraadt   882: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      883: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143     dugsong   884: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
                    885: security community.
                    886: <p>
                    887:
                    888: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      889: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216     jose      890: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
                    891: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137     aaron     892: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
                    893: <p>
                    894:
                    895: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   896: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      897: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236     jose      898: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137     aaron     899: <p>
1.236     jose      900: </ul>
1.137     aaron     901:
1.132     louis     902: <h3>2000</h3>
                    903:
1.236     jose      904: <ul>
1.132     louis     905: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      906: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216     jose      907: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
                    908: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134     jufi      909: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
                    910: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
                    911: <p>
                    912:
                    913: <li><strong>
1.215     nick      914: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      915: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133     deraadt   916: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
                    917: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
                    918: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
                    919: experts who had flown in from around the world.  Following this, Theo climbed
1.151     jsyn      920: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133     deraadt   921: <p>
                    922:
                    923: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      924: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216     jose      925: 2000</a></strong>,
                    926: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236     jose      927: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132     louis     928: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13      deraadt   929: <p>
1.4       millert   930:
1.132     louis     931: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236     jose      932: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216     jose      933: Summit</a></strong>,
                    934: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159     miod      935: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132     louis     936: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
                    937: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
                    938:
                    939: <ul>
1.236     jose      940: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215     nick      941:     <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis     942:     <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                    943: </ul>
1.4       millert   944: <p>
1.132     louis     945:
1.7       deraadt   946: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   947: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      948: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132     louis     949: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
                    950: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236     jose      951: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132     louis     952: mind (drinks afterwards).
                    953: <p>
                    954:
1.216     jose      955: <li><strong>
                    956: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
                    957: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132     louis     958: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
                    959: questions.
1.32      deraadt   960: <p>
1.1       deraadt   961:
1.132     louis     962: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236     jose      963: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216     jose      964: Revolution</a></strong>,
                    965: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133     deraadt   966: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
                    967: have changed over the last years.
1.1       deraadt   968: <p>
                    969:
1.132     louis     970: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216     jose      971: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
                    972: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132     louis     973: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
                    974: <ul>
1.236     jose      975: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132     louis     976:     <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt   977:     by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132     louis     978:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
                    979:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
                    980: </ul>
1.1       deraadt   981: <p>
1.132     louis     982:
1.10      provos    983: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt   984: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose      985: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236     jose      986: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132     louis     987: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
                    988: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
                    989: Friday and Saturday.  Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
                    990: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
                    991: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
                    992: <br>
                    993: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
                    994: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
                    995: <p>
1.32      deraadt   996:
1.132     louis     997: <li><strong>
1.236     jose      998: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216     jose      999: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
                   1000: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
                   1001: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132     louis    1002: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
                   1003: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
                   1004: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
                   1005: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
                   1006: and spoke about
                   1007: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241     david    1008: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132     louis    1009: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236     jose     1010: after the security talk.
1.3       provos   1011: <p>
1.132     louis    1012:
1.6       deraadt  1013: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1014: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1015: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132     louis    1016: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
                   1017: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
                   1018: <br>
                   1019: Christian Weisgerber gave a
                   1020: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
                   1021: on BSD</a>.
1.32      deraadt  1022: <p>
1.1       deraadt  1023:
1.216     jose     1024: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236     jose     1025: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216     jose     1026: Conference.</a></strong>,
                   1027: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1028: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
                   1029: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
                   1030: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
                   1031: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room.  For the first
                   1032: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147     jason    1033: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132     louis    1034: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
                   1035: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
                   1036: <ul>
                   1037:
                   1038: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
                   1039:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose     1040:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132     louis    1041:     <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1042:     <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
                   1043:
                   1044: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
                   1045:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216     jose     1046:     by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132     louis    1047:     <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1048:     <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2       deraadt  1049:
1.132     louis    1050: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
                   1051:     <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205     deraadt  1052:     by Craig Metz.
1.132     louis    1053: </ul>
1.2       deraadt  1054: <p>
                   1055:
1.132     louis    1056: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1057: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216     jose     1058: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
                   1059: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132     louis    1060: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
                   1061: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
                   1062: are available from the user group's site.
1.1       deraadt  1063: <p>
1.2       deraadt  1064:
1.132     louis    1065: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     1066: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
                   1067: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132     louis    1068: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
                   1069: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
                   1070: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session.  As before, the event
                   1071: was invitation only.  Many significant things got done, including
                   1072: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1       deraadt  1073: <p>
1.11      jkatz    1074:
1.17      deraadt  1075: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1076: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
                   1077: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132     louis    1078: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
                   1079: of using Open Source software in various business environments.  The local
                   1080: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
                   1081: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
                   1082: OpenBSD.
1.21      pattonme 1083: <p>
1.17      deraadt  1084:
1.23      niklas   1085: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     1086: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
                   1087: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132     louis    1088: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
                   1089: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
                   1090: efforts.  Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216     jose     1091: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132     louis    1092: at this event.  (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
                   1093: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
                   1094: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32      deraadt  1095: <p>
1.25      deraadt  1096:
1.132     louis    1097: <li><strong>
                   1098: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201     deraadt  1099: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
                   1100: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216     jose     1101: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132     louis    1102: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
                   1103: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
                   1104: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25      deraadt  1105: <p>
1.23      niklas   1106:
1.31      deraadt  1107: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1108: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216     jose     1109: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
                   1110: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140     jufi     1111: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132     louis    1112: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
                   1113: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
                   1114: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
                   1115: improve it.
1.32      deraadt  1116: <p>
1.31      deraadt  1117:
1.201     deraadt  1118: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216     jose     1119: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1120: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
                   1121: &quot;Birds Of a Feather&quot; session at the <a
                   1122: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
                   1123: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33      niklas   1124: <p>
1.236     jose     1125: </ul>
1.33      niklas   1126:
1.132     louis    1127: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36      niklas   1128:
1.236     jose     1129: <ul>
1.216     jose     1130: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
                   1131: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1132: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216     jose     1133: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132     louis    1134: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
                   1135: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
                   1136: government and military institutions.
1.45      jason    1137: <p>
                   1138:
1.216     jose     1139: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236     jose     1140: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216     jose     1141: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
                   1142: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1143: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
                   1144: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
                   1145: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
                   1146: There were many other OpenBSD
                   1147: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
                   1148: t-shirts.  His paper is available at:
                   1149:
                   1150: <ul>
                   1151: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236     jose     1152:     <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206     david    1153:     by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236     jose     1154:     <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1155:     <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1156: </ul>
                   1157: <p>
                   1158:
                   1159: <li><strong>
1.201     deraadt  1160: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216     jose     1161: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis    1162: H&aring;kan Olsson &amp; Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
                   1163: <p>
                   1164:
                   1165: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1166: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux &amp; Open Source
1.216     jose     1167: Software '99</a></strong>,
                   1168: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132     louis    1169: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236     jose     1170: <a
                   1171: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132     louis    1172: <p>
                   1173:
                   1174: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1175: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     1176: 1999</a></strong>,
                   1177: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1178: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th.  Other OpenBSD
                   1179: developers from the east coast attended as well.
                   1180: <p>
                   1181:
1.236     jose     1182: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216     jose     1183: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
                   1184: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236     jose     1185: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
                   1186: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    1187: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability.  The tests
                   1188: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
                   1189: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
                   1190: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
                   1191: appropriately.  The results were presented later that fall at a
                   1192: conference in Stockholm.
                   1193: <p>
                   1194:
                   1195: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1196: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1197: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132     louis    1198: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
                   1199: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
                   1200: coordinated.
                   1201: <p>
                   1202:
                   1203: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1204: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216     jose     1205: Security</a></strong>,
                   1206: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1207: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
                   1208: shirts.  It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
                   1209: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
                   1210: significant security roles.
                   1211: <p>
                   1212:
                   1213: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1214: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216     jose     1215: meeting</a></strong>,
                   1216: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132     louis    1217: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
                   1218: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
                   1219: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166     miod     1220: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132     louis    1221: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
                   1222: <p>
1.45      jason    1223:
1.132     louis    1224: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1225: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1226: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1227: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
                   1228: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46      deraadt  1229: <p>
1.132     louis    1230:
1.236     jose     1231: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
                   1232: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216     jose     1233: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
                   1234: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106     jufi     1235: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46      deraadt  1236: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106     jufi     1237: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5.  (We distributed the
                   1238: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46      deraadt  1239: June.)
1.132     louis    1240: <br>
1.46      deraadt  1241: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132     louis    1242: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
                   1243:
1.46      deraadt  1244: <ul>
1.236     jose     1245: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.66      deraadt  1246: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236     jose     1247:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     1248:     by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     1249:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1250:     <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1251: <br>
1.66      deraadt  1252: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236     jose     1253:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     1254:     by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236     jose     1255:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1256:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1257: <br>
1.66      deraadt  1258: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236     jose     1259:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     1260:     by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
                   1261:     Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236     jose     1262:     <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1263:     <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1264: <br>
1.66      deraadt  1265: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236     jose     1266:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216     jose     1267:     by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236     jose     1268:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1269:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132     louis    1270: </ul>
1.66      deraadt  1271: <p>
1.46      deraadt  1272:
1.51      deraadt  1273: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1274: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1275: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1276: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
                   1277: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
                   1278: at a table donated by the Expo.  OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
                   1279: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
                   1280: to Linux.
1.51      deraadt  1281: <p>
                   1282:
1.53      jakob    1283: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1284: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216     jose     1285: meeting</a></strong>,
                   1286: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1287: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
                   1288: IPSEC developers.
1.53      jakob    1289: <p>
                   1290:
1.132     louis    1291: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1292: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216     jose     1293: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
                   1294: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132     louis    1295: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
                   1296: society as well.  OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
                   1297: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
                   1298: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59      deraadt  1299: <p>
1.236     jose     1300: </ul>
1.59      deraadt  1301:
1.132     louis    1302: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59      deraadt  1303:
1.236     jose     1304: <ul>
1.132     louis    1305: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236     jose     1306: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
                   1307: tests &amp; seminar</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1308: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132     louis    1309: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.236     jose     1310: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html">IPsec</a>
1.132     louis    1311: implementations who were tested for interoperability.  The tests were
                   1312: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
                   1313: specific.  We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
                   1314: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70      deraadt  1315: <p>
                   1316:
1.236     jose     1317: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
                   1318: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216     jose     1319: Conference</a></strong>,
                   1320: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132     louis    1321: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up.  By far, OpenBSD was the
                   1322: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
                   1323: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
                   1324: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
                   1325: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
                   1326: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
                   1327: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
                   1328: <br>
                   1329: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously  trust in OpenBSD
                   1330: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
                   1331: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72      ho       1332: <p>
                   1333:
1.73      deraadt  1334: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1335: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217     jose     1336: C&oacute;mputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1337: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132     louis    1338: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236     jose     1339: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132     louis    1340: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236     jose     1341: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131     jufi     1342: <p>
1.73      deraadt  1343:
1.236     jose     1344: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216     jose     1345: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132     louis    1346: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
                   1347: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
                   1348: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
                   1349: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
                   1350: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79      deraadt  1351: <p>
1.73      deraadt  1352:
1.80      deraadt  1353: <li><strong>
1.216     jose     1354: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
                   1355: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1356: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151     jsyn     1357: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132     louis    1358: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80      deraadt  1359: <p>
                   1360:
1.93      louis    1361: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1362: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216     jose     1363: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236     jose     1364: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1365: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
                   1366: Raymond and others.
1.93      louis    1367: <p>
                   1368:
1.216     jose     1369: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1370: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
                   1371: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1372: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1373: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
                   1374: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96      deraadt  1375: <p>
                   1376:
1.236     jose     1377: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
                   1378: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1379: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1380: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box.  It was involved
                   1381: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
                   1382: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
                   1383: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
                   1384: <br>
                   1385: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again).  The primates
1.236     jose     1386: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132     louis    1387: &quot;wire-frame&quot; OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
                   1388: 200 of them.  The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96      deraadt  1389: <p>
1.94      deraadt  1390:
1.236     jose     1391: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1392: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1393: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
                   1394: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
                   1395: team's process and the lessons the team learned.  The talk concentrated
                   1396: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
                   1397: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99      deraadt  1398: <p>
                   1399:
1.236     jose     1400: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
                   1401: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1402: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1403: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
                   1404: and normal tracks.  Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
                   1405: project offers.  Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
                   1406: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
                   1407: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
                   1408: <br>
                   1409: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3.  We sold many CDROMs.  The
                   1410: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101     wvdputte 1411: <p>
                   1412:
1.105     wvdputte 1413: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1414: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1415: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1416: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
                   1417: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
                   1418: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236     jose     1419: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105     wvdputte 1420: <br>
1.132     louis    1421: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
                   1422: <p>
1.236     jose     1423: </ul>
1.105     wvdputte 1424:
1.132     louis    1425: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107     deraadt  1426:
1.236     jose     1427: <ul>
1.113     deraadt  1428: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1429: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1430: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236     jose     1431: Niels held a
                   1432: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132     louis    1433: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
                   1434: possible solution.
1.113     deraadt  1435: <p>
1.132     louis    1436:
1.236     jose     1437: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216     jose     1438: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166     miod     1439: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236     jose     1440: OpenBSD 2.1.  Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132     louis    1441: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113     deraadt  1442: <p>
1.105     wvdputte 1443:
1.236     jose     1444: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
                   1445: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1446: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132     louis    1447: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
                   1448: <br>
                   1449: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140     jufi     1450: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236     jose     1451: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118     deraadt  1452: <p>
                   1453:
1.125     deraadt  1454: <li><strong>
1.236     jose     1455: <a
                   1456: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216     jose     1457: Jan  6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132     louis    1458: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
                   1459: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236     jose     1460: </ul>
1.125     deraadt  1461:
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