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1.236 jose 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
18: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
19: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
20: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 21: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 23: <hr>
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25: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 26:
1.287 henning 27: <h3>2005</h3>
1.236 jose 28:
29: <ul>
1.346 marius 30:
1.394 ! grunk 31: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
! 32: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
! 33: September 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
! 34: NYCBSDCon is a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
! 35: City *BSD User Group and will be held at Columbia University.
! 36: The all day conference will include a variety of speakers representing the
! 37: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
! 38: NYCBSDCon is organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
! 39: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
! 40: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
! 41: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
! 42: Additional sponsors include USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
! 43: <p>
! 44:
1.393 aanriot 45: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
46: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
47: 2005</a></strong>,
48: Oct 15 - 17, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
49: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
50: <p>
51:
1.370 camield 52: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
1.375 grunk 53: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
1.370 camield 54: November 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
55: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD!
56: <p>
57:
1.367 wvdputte 58: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
1.375 grunk 59: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
1.368 wvdputte 60: November 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
1.369 mbalmer 61: The EuroBSDCon will be held every year now, so we are looking for
1.367 wvdputte 62: people who want to contribute, by giving talks. See the
1.375 grunk 63: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/cfp.php">Call for Papers</a> that is
1.368 wvdputte 64: out now.
1.367 wvdputte 65: <p>
66:
1.387 tom 67: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
1.392 reyk 68: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin
1.386 wvdputte 69: </a></strong>,
70: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
71: Join the many OpenBSD developers and users for a Xmas break in a unique setting
72: <p>
73:
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1.152 jakob 92: <h2>Past events:</h2>
93:
1.296 mcbride 94: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 95:
96: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 97:
1.388 tom 98: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
99: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
100: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
101: August 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
102: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
103: <p>
104:
1.385 mickey 105: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 106: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.385 mickey 107: July 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
108: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
109: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 110: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
111: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 112: and an excellent
113: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
114: If you want to see what happened previously, check
115: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
116: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
117: <p>
118:
1.382 pedro 119: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
120: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.org/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
121: July 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 122: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
123: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
124: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 125: <p>
126:
1.378 aanriot 127: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
128: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
129: July 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 130: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
131: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
132: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
133: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 134: <p>
135:
1.375 grunk 136: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
137: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
138: June 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
139: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
140: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
141: <p>
142:
1.374 grunk 143: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
144: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
145: Computing 2005</a></strong>, June 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
146: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
147: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
148: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
149: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
150: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
151: <p>
152:
1.371 deraadt 153: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
154: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
155: Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando at 19:00-21:00, June 2, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
156: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
157: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
158: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
159: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
160: He demonstrated how companies can easily
161: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
162: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
163: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
164: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
165: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
166: <p>
167:
1.366 martin 168: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
169: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
170: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
171: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
172: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
173: CDs and shirts.
174: <p>
175:
1.365 mcbride 176: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
177: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
178: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
179: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
180: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
181: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
182: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
183: <br>
184: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
185: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
186: <p>
187:
1.362 reyk 188: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
189: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
190: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
191: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
192: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
193: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
194: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
195: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
196: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
197: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
198: <p>
199:
1.358 mcbride 200: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
201: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
202: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
203: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
204: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
205: <p>
206:
1.357 henning 207: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
208: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
209: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
210: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
211: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
212: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
213: <p>
214:
1.384 tom 215: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 216: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
217: April 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
218: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
219: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
220: packages work in front of about 30 people.
221: <p>
222:
1.353 henning 223: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
224: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
225: April 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
226: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
227: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
228: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
229: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 230: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 231: <p>
232:
1.352 henning 233: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
234: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
235: April 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
236: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
237: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
238: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
239: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
240: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
241: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
242: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
243: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
244: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
245: available if you couldn't make it there.
246: <p>
247:
1.350 marius 248: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
249:
250: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
251: Technical Conference</a></strong>, April 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
252: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
253: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
254: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
255: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
256: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 257: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 258: <p>
259:
1.345 henning 260: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
261: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
262: April 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
263: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
264: <p>
265:
1.344 martin 266: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
267: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
268: April 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
269: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
270: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
271: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
272: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
273: (in French) are available.
274: <p>
275:
1.337 deraadt 276: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
277: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
278: March 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
279: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
280: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 281: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 282: source firewalls.
283: <p>
284:
1.317 henning 285: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
286: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
287: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 288: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 289: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 290: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 291: <p>
292:
1.312 deraadt 293: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
294: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
295: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 296: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
297: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 298: <p>
299:
1.319 saad 300: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
301: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
302: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
303: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
304: <p>
305:
1.310 mickey 306: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 307: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 308: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 309: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 310: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
311: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 312: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 313: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 314: <p>
1.312 deraadt 315:
1.308 deraadt 316: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
317: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
318: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
319: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 320: talks. Topics included
321: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 322: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
323: OpenBGPD, and pf.
324: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 325: <p>
326:
1.304 saad 327: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
328: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
329: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
330: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
331: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 332: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 333: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 334: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
335: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 336: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 337: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
338: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
339: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 340: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 341: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
342: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
343: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
344: <p>
1.301 saad 345: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
346: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
347: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
348: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
349: <p>
350: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
351: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
352: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
353: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
354: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
355: <p>
1.293 saad 356: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
357: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
358: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
359: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
360: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
361: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 362: french translation team.<br>
363: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
364: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
365: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
366: available.<br>
367: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 368: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
369: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
370: <p>
1.296 mcbride 371: </ul>
1.293 saad 372:
1.296 mcbride 373: <h3>2004</h3>
374:
375: <ul>
1.287 henning 376: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
377: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 378: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 379: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
380: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
381: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 382: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 383: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
384: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
385: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
386: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
387: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
388: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 389: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 390: driver.
391: <p>
1.248 deraadt 392:
1.286 kevlo 393: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
394: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
395: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
396: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
397: <p>
398:
1.285 deraadt 399: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
400: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
401: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
402: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
403: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
404: <p>
405:
1.283 saad 406: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
407: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
408: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
409: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
410: meeting of the
411: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
412: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 413: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 414: <p>
415:
1.282 henning 416: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
417: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
418: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
419: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
420: two days, on bgpd
421: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
422: ntpd
423: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
424: and signal handlers
425: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
426: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
427: <p>
428:
1.275 deraadt 429: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
430: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
431: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
432: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
433: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
434: Room B-02 of the
435: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
436: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
437: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
438: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
439: The talk was also given the following day at the
440: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
441: <p>
442:
1.271 henning 443: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
444: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
445: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 446: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
447: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 448: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 449: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 450: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 451: <p>
452:
453: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
454: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
455: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 456: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
457: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 458: <p>
459:
1.276 deraadt 460: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 461: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
462: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
463: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
464: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
465: <p>
466:
467: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 468: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
469: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 470: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
471: Alexandre Anriot.
1.269 krw 472: <p>
473:
474: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
475: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
476: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
477: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
478: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
479: <p>
480:
1.268 krw 481: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
482: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
483: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
484: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
485: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
486: <p>
487:
1.375 grunk 488: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 489: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
490: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
491: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
492: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
493: <p>
494:
495: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
496: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
497: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
498: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
499: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
500: <p>
501:
1.265 wvdputte 502: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
503: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
504: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
505: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
506: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
507: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
508: event."
509: <br>
510: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
511: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
512: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
513: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
514: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
515: <br>
516: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
517: <p>
518:
1.262 henning 519: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
520: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
521: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
522: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
523: Henning's slides from his talks about
524: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
525: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
526: are available.
527: <p>
528:
1.261 deraadt 529: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 530: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 531: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
532: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
533: newly extended version of the
534: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
535: For more information, see this
536: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
537: ComputerWorld article</a>.
538: <p>
539:
540:
1.257 saad 541: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
542: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
543: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
544: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
545: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
546: <p>
547:
548: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
549: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
550: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
551: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
552: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
553: <p>
554:
1.256 mickey 555: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
556: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
557: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
558: session.
559: <p>
560:
1.254 xsa 561: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 562: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 563: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
564: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
565: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
566: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
567: a basic talk about pf.
568: <p>
569:
1.248 deraadt 570: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 571: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 572: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
573: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 574: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
575: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
576: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 577: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
578: <p>
579:
1.247 canacar 580: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
581: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
582: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
583: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
584: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
585: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
586: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
587: projects were discussed.<br>
588: You can view the
1.281 canacar 589: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 590: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 591: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 592: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
593: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
594: <p>
595:
1.242 henning 596: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
597: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
598: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 599: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
600: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
601: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
602: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
603: and systrace
1.263 saad 604: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 605: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
606: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
607: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 608: <p>
609:
1.240 espie 610: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
611: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
612: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
613: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
614: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
615: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
616: <p>
617:
618: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
619: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
620: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
621: <a href="wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
622: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
623: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
624: <p>
625: </ul>
626:
1.188 henning 627: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 628:
629: <ul>
1.232 jose 630: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
631: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
632: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
633: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
634: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 635: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 636: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 637: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 638: <p>
1.232 jose 639:
1.228 jose 640: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 641: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 642: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
643: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 644: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
645: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 646: with OpenBSD PF.
647: <p>
648:
649: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
650: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
651: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
652: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
653: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 654: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
655: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
656: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
657: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 658: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 659: slides in PDF format </a>
660: (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 661: <p>
662:
1.227 jose 663: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
664: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
665: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
666: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
667: <p>
668:
669: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
670: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
671: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 672: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 673: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 674: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
675: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 676: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 677: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 678: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 679: in Internet worm defenses.
680: <p>
681:
1.224 miod 682: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
683: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
684: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
685: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
686: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
687: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
688: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
689: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
690: OpenBSD.
691: <p>
692:
693: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
694: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
695: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
696: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
697: <p>
698:
699: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
700: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
701: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
702: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
703: <p>
704:
1.219 jose 705: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
706: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
707: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 708: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 709: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
710: <p>
711:
1.218 jose 712: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
713: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
714: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 715: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 716: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
717: <p>
718:
1.214 henning 719: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
720: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 721: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 722: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
723: <p>
724:
1.213 jose 725: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
726: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 727: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 728: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 729: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
730: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
731: <p>
732:
1.211 jose 733: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
734: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 735: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 736: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
737: <p>
738:
739: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
740: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 741: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 742: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 743: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
744: <p>
745:
1.209 wvdputte 746: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
747: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 748: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 749: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
750: <p>
1.195 deraadt 751:
1.202 jason 752: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 753: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 754: Conference</a></strong>,
755: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 756: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
757: <ul>
1.216 jose 758: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 759: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 760: Angelos D. Keromytis,
761: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 762: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 763: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
764: </ul>
765: <p>
766:
1.201 deraadt 767: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 768: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 769: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
770: session.
771: <p>
772:
1.216 jose 773: <li><strong>
774: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
775: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 776: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
777: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
778: <p>
779:
1.216 jose 780: <li><strong>
781: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
782: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 783: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 784: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 785: <p>
786:
1.216 jose 787: <li><strong>
788: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
789: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 790: 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 791: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 792: <p>
793:
1.216 jose 794: <li><strong>
795: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
796: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 797: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
798: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 799: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
800: user groups.
801: <p>
802:
1.236 jose 803: <li><strong>
804: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 805: Group</a></strong>,
806: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 807: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
808: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
809: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
810: <p>
811:
1.216 jose 812: <li><strong>
813: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
814: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 815: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 816: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 817: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
818: <p>
819:
1.216 jose 820: <li><strong>
821: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
822: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 823: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
824: CD sets and Tshirts.
825: <p>
1.236 jose 826: </ul>
1.185 miod 827:
1.161 millert 828: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 829:
830: <ul>
831: <li><strong>
832: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 833: Congress</a></strong>,
834: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 835: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
836: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 837: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
838: <p>
1.177 jason 839:
1.216 jose 840: <li><strong>
841: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
842: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 843: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 844: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 845: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
846: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 847: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 848: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
849: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 850: <p>
1.178 pb 851:
1.216 jose 852: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 853: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 854: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
855: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 856: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
857: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
858: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
859: <p>
860:
1.216 jose 861: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 862: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
863: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
864: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
865: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
866: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
867: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
868: <p>
869:
870: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 871: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
872: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 873: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
874: Niels Provos presented his
875: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
876: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 877: <p>
1.172 miod 878:
1.216 jose 879: <li><strong>
880: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
881: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 882: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
883: <p>
884:
1.216 jose 885: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 886: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 887: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
888: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 889: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
890: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 891: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 892: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 893: <p>
1.168 miod 894:
1.216 jose 895: <li><strong>
896: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
897: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 898: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 899: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
900: are available.
1.161 millert 901: <p>
902:
1.216 jose 903: <li><strong>
904: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
905: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 906: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
907: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
908: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
909: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
910: <p>
911:
1.216 jose 912: <li><strong>
913: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
914: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 915: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
916: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
917: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
918: <p>
1.236 jose 919: </ul>
1.164 millert 920:
1.152 jakob 921: <h3>2001</h3>
922:
1.236 jose 923: <ul>
1.216 jose 924: <li><strong>
925: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
926: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 927: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
928: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
929: <p>
930:
1.216 jose 931: <li><strong>
932: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
933: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 934: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
935: <p>
936:
1.158 deraadt 937: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 938: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 939: 2001</a></strong>,
940: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 941: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
942: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
943: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
944: <p>
945:
1.216 jose 946: <li><strong>
947: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
948: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 949: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
950: <p>
951:
1.201 deraadt 952: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 953: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 954: Jakob and Itojun were there.
955: <p>
1.158 deraadt 956:
1.150 wvdputte 957: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 958: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 959: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 960: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
961: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
962: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 963: <p>
1.137 aaron 964:
965: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 966: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 967: Conference</a></strong>,
968: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 969: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
970: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
971: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
972: <p>
973:
974: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 975: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 976: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 977: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
978: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
979: <p>
980:
981: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 982: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 983: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
984: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 985: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
986: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
987: <p>
988:
989: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 990: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 991: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
992: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 993: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
994: <p>
995:
996: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 997: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 998: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 999: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1000: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1001: security community.
1002: <p>
1003:
1004: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1005: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1006: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1007: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1008: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1009: <p>
1010:
1011: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1012: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1013: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1014: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1015: <p>
1.236 jose 1016: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1017:
1.132 louis 1018: <h3>2000</h3>
1019:
1.236 jose 1020: <ul>
1.132 louis 1021: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1022: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1023: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1024: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1025: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1026: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1027: <p>
1028:
1029: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1030: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1031: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1032: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1033: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1034: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1035: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1036: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1037: <p>
1038:
1039: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1040: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1041: 2000</a></strong>,
1042: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1043: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 1044: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1045: <p>
1.4 millert 1046:
1.132 louis 1047: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1048: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1049: Summit</a></strong>,
1050: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1051: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1052: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1053: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1054:
1055: <ul>
1.236 jose 1056: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1057: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1058: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1059: </ul>
1.4 millert 1060: <p>
1.132 louis 1061:
1.7 deraadt 1062: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1063: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1064: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1065: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1066: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 1067: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1068: mind (drinks afterwards).
1069: <p>
1070:
1.216 jose 1071: <li><strong>
1072: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1073: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1074: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1075: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1076: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1077:
1.132 louis 1078: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1079: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1080: Revolution</a></strong>,
1081: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1082: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1083: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1084: <p>
1085:
1.132 louis 1086: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1087: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1088: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1089: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1090: <ul>
1.236 jose 1091: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1092: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1093: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1094: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1095: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1096: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1097: <p>
1.132 louis 1098:
1.10 provos 1099: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1100: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1101: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1102: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1103: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1104: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
1105: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1106: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1107: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1108: <br>
1109: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1110: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1111: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1112:
1.132 louis 1113: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1114: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1115: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1116: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1117: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1118: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1119: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1120: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1121: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1122: and spoke about
1123: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1124: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1125: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1126: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1127: <p>
1.132 louis 1128:
1.6 deraadt 1129: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1130: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1131: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1132: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1133: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1134: <br>
1135: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1136: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1137: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1138: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1139:
1.216 jose 1140: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1141: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1142: Conference.</a></strong>,
1143: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1144: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1145: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1146: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1147: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1148: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1149: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1150: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1151: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1152: <ul>
1153:
1154: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1155: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1156: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1157: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1158: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1159:
1160: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1161: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1162: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1163: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1164: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1165:
1.132 louis 1166: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1167: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1168: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1169: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1170: <p>
1171:
1.132 louis 1172: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1173: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1174: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1175: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1176: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1177: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1178: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1179: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1180:
1.132 louis 1181: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1182: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1183: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1184: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1185: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1186: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1187: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1188: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1189: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1190:
1.17 deraadt 1191: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1192: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1193: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1194: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1195: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1196: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1197: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1198: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1199: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1200:
1.23 niklas 1201: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1202: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1203: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1204: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1205: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1206: efforts.
1207: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1208: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1209: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1210: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1211: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1212: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1213:
1.132 louis 1214: <li><strong>
1215: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1216: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1217: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1218: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1219: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1220: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1221: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1222: <p>
1.23 niklas 1223:
1.31 deraadt 1224: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1225: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1226: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1227: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1228: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1229: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1230: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1231: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1232: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1233: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1234:
1.201 deraadt 1235: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1236: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1237: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1238: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1239: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1240: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1241: <p>
1.236 jose 1242: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1243:
1.132 louis 1244: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1245:
1.236 jose 1246: <ul>
1.216 jose 1247: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1248: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1249: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1250: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 1251: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
1252: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1253: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1254: <p>
1255:
1.216 jose 1256: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1257: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1258: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1259: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1260: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1261: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1262: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1263: There were many other OpenBSD
1264: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1265: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
1266:
1267: <ul>
1268: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1269: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1270: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1271: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1272: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1273: </ul>
1274: <p>
1275:
1276: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1277: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1278: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1279: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1280: <p>
1281:
1282: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1283: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1284: Software '99</a></strong>,
1285: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1286: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1287: <a
1.375 grunk 1288: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1289: <p>
1290:
1291: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1292: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1293: 1999</a></strong>,
1294: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1295: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1296: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1297: <p>
1298:
1.236 jose 1299: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1300: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1301: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1302: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1303: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1304: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1305: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1306: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1307: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1308: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1309: conference in Stockholm.
1310: <p>
1311:
1312: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1313: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1314: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1315: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1316: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1317: coordinated.
1318: <p>
1319:
1320: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1321: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1322: Security</a></strong>,
1323: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1324: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1325: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1326: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1327: significant security roles.
1328: <p>
1329:
1330: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1331: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1332: meeting</a></strong>,
1333: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1334: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1335: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1336: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1337: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1338: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1339: <p>
1.45 jason 1340:
1.132 louis 1341: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1342: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1343: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1344: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1345: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1346: <p>
1.132 louis 1347:
1.236 jose 1348: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1349: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1350: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1351: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1352: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1353: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1354: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1355: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1356: June.)
1.132 louis 1357: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1358: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1359: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1360:
1.375 grunk 1361: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1362: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1363: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1364: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1365: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1366: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1367: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1368: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1369: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1370: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1371: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1372: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1373: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1374: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1375: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1376: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1377: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1378: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1379: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1380: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1381: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1382: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1383: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1384: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1385: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1386: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1387: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1388: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1389:
1.51 deraadt 1390: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1391: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1392: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1393: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1394: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1395: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1396: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1397: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1398: <p>
1399:
1.53 jakob 1400: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1401: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1402: meeting</a></strong>,
1403: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1404: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1405: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1406: <p>
1407:
1.132 louis 1408: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1409: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1410: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1411: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1412: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1413: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1414: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1415: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1416: <p>
1.236 jose 1417: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1418:
1.132 louis 1419: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1420:
1.236 jose 1421: <ul>
1.132 louis 1422: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1423: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1424: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1425: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1426: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1427: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1428: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1429: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1430: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1431: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1432: <p>
1433:
1.236 jose 1434: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1435: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1436: Conference</a></strong>,
1437: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1438: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1439: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1440: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1441: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1442: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1443: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1444: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1445: <br>
1446: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1447: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1448: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1449: <p>
1450:
1.73 deraadt 1451: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1452: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1453: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1454: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1455: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1456: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1457: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1458: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1459: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1460:
1.236 jose 1461: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1462: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1463: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1464: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1465: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1466: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1467: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1468: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1469:
1.80 deraadt 1470: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1471: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1472: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1473: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1474: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1475: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1476: <p>
1477:
1.93 louis 1478: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1479: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1480: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1481: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1482: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1483: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1484: <p>
1485:
1.216 jose 1486: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1487: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1488: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1489: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1490: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1491: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1492: <p>
1493:
1.236 jose 1494: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1495: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1496: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1497: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1498: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1499: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1500: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1501: <br>
1502: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1503: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1504: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1505: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1506: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1507:
1.236 jose 1508: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1509: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1510: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1511: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1512: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1513: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1514: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1515: <p>
1516:
1.236 jose 1517: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1518: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1519: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1520: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1521: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1522: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1523: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1524: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1525: <br>
1526: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1527: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1528: <p>
1529:
1.105 wvdputte 1530: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1531: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1532: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1533: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1534: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1535: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1536: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1537: <br>
1.132 louis 1538: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1539: <p>
1.236 jose 1540: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1541:
1.132 louis 1542: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1543:
1.236 jose 1544: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1545: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1546: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1547: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1548: Niels held a
1549: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1550: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1551: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1552: <p>
1.132 louis 1553:
1.236 jose 1554: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1555: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1556: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1557: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1558: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1559: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1560:
1.236 jose 1561: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1562: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1563: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1564: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1565: <br>
1566: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1567: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1568: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1569: <p>
1570:
1.125 deraadt 1571: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1572: <a
1573: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1574: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1575: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1576: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1577: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1578:
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