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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>
24:
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:
1.396 wvdputte 45: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
46: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
47: Sept 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
48: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gives a
49: <a href=http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/>talk</a> about IT security.
50: <p>
51:
52: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
53: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
1.398 ! wvdputte 54: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.396 wvdputte 55: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> is looking for booth slaves
56: <p>
57:
1.398 ! wvdputte 58: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
! 59: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
! 60: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
! 61: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
! 62: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth
! 63: <p>
! 64:
1.393 aanriot 65: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
66: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
67: 2005</a></strong>,
68: Oct 15 - 17, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
69: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
70: <p>
71:
1.395 jsg 72: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
73: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
74: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
75: Mark Uemura will give a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF and a talk on wireless
76: with authpf. Damien Miller will talk about writing secure and portable
77: programs, Reyk Flöter will talk about the current state of wireless
78: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue will give a talk on spamd.
79: Many other OpenBSD developers and users are likely to be present.
80: <p>
81:
1.396 wvdputte 82: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
83: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
84: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
85: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
86: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
87: <p>
88:
1.370 camield 89: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
1.375 grunk 90: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
1.370 camield 91: November 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
92: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD!
93: <p>
94:
1.396 wvdputte 95: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
96: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
97: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
98: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
99: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, booth slaves wanted.
100: <p>
101:
1.367 wvdputte 102: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
1.375 grunk 103: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
1.368 wvdputte 104: November 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
1.369 mbalmer 105: The EuroBSDCon will be held every year now, so we are looking for
1.367 wvdputte 106: people who want to contribute, by giving talks. See the
1.375 grunk 107: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/cfp.php">Call for Papers</a> that is
1.368 wvdputte 108: out now.
1.367 wvdputte 109: <p>
110:
1.387 tom 111: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
1.396 wvdputte 112: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
113: Berlin</a></strong>,
1.386 wvdputte 114: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
115: Join the many OpenBSD developers and users for a Xmas break in a unique setting
116: <p>
117:
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1.152 jakob 136: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 138: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 139:
140: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 141:
1.388 tom 142: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
143: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
144: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
145: August 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
146: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
147: <p>
148:
1.385 mickey 149: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 150: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.385 mickey 151: July 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
152: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
153: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 154: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
155: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 156: and an excellent
157: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
158: If you want to see what happened previously, check
159: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
160: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
161: <p>
162:
1.382 pedro 163: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
164: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.org/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
165: July 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 166: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
167: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
168: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 169: <p>
170:
1.378 aanriot 171: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
172: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
173: July 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 174: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
175: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
176: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
177: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 178: <p>
179:
1.375 grunk 180: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
181: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
182: June 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
183: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
184: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
185: <p>
186:
1.374 grunk 187: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
188: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
189: Computing 2005</a></strong>, June 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
190: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
191: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
192: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
193: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
194: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
195: <p>
196:
1.371 deraadt 197: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
198: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
199: Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando at 19:00-21:00, June 2, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
200: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
201: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
202: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
203: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
204: He demonstrated how companies can easily
205: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
206: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
207: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
208: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
209: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
210: <p>
211:
1.366 martin 212: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
213: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
214: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
215: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
216: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
217: CDs and shirts.
218: <p>
219:
1.365 mcbride 220: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
221: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
222: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
223: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
224: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
225: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
226: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
227: <br>
228: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
229: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
230: <p>
231:
1.362 reyk 232: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
233: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
234: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
235: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
236: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
237: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
238: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
239: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
240: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
241: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
242: <p>
243:
1.358 mcbride 244: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
245: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
246: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
247: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
248: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
249: <p>
250:
1.357 henning 251: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
252: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
253: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
254: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
255: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
256: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
257: <p>
258:
1.384 tom 259: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 260: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
261: April 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
262: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
263: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
264: packages work in front of about 30 people.
265: <p>
266:
1.353 henning 267: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
268: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
269: April 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
270: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
271: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
272: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
273: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 274: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 275: <p>
276:
1.352 henning 277: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
278: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
279: April 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
280: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
281: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
282: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
283: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
284: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
285: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
286: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
287: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
288: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
289: available if you couldn't make it there.
290: <p>
291:
1.350 marius 292: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
293:
294: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
295: Technical Conference</a></strong>, April 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
296: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
297: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
298: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
299: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
300: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 301: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 302: <p>
303:
1.345 henning 304: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
305: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
306: April 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
307: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
308: <p>
309:
1.344 martin 310: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
311: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
312: April 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
313: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
314: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
315: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
316: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
317: (in French) are available.
318: <p>
319:
1.337 deraadt 320: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
321: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
322: March 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
323: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
324: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 325: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 326: source firewalls.
327: <p>
328:
1.317 henning 329: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
330: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
331: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 332: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 333: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 334: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 335: <p>
336:
1.312 deraadt 337: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
338: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
339: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 340: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
341: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 342: <p>
343:
1.319 saad 344: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
345: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
346: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
347: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
348: <p>
349:
1.310 mickey 350: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 351: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 352: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 353: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 354: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
355: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 356: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 357: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 358: <p>
1.312 deraadt 359:
1.308 deraadt 360: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
361: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
362: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
363: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 364: talks. Topics included
365: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 366: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
367: OpenBGPD, and pf.
368: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 369: <p>
370:
1.304 saad 371: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
372: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
373: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
374: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
375: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 376: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 377: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 378: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
379: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 380: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 381: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
382: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
383: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 384: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 385: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
386: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
387: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
388: <p>
1.301 saad 389: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
390: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
391: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
392: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
393: <p>
394: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
395: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
396: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
397: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
398: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
399: <p>
1.293 saad 400: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
401: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
402: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
403: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
404: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
405: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 406: french translation team.<br>
407: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
408: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
409: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
410: available.<br>
411: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 412: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
413: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
414: <p>
1.296 mcbride 415: </ul>
1.293 saad 416:
1.296 mcbride 417: <h3>2004</h3>
418:
419: <ul>
1.287 henning 420: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
421: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 422: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 423: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
424: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
425: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 426: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 427: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
428: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
429: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
430: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
431: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
432: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 433: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 434: driver.
435: <p>
1.248 deraadt 436:
1.286 kevlo 437: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
438: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
439: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
440: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
441: <p>
442:
1.285 deraadt 443: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
444: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
445: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
446: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
447: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
448: <p>
449:
1.283 saad 450: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
451: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
452: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
453: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
454: meeting of the
455: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
456: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 457: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 458: <p>
459:
1.282 henning 460: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
461: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
462: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
463: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
464: two days, on bgpd
465: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
466: ntpd
467: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
468: and signal handlers
469: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
470: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
471: <p>
472:
1.275 deraadt 473: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
474: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
475: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
476: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
477: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
478: Room B-02 of the
479: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
480: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
481: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
482: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
483: The talk was also given the following day at the
484: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
485: <p>
486:
1.271 henning 487: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
488: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
489: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 490: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
491: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 492: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 493: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 494: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 495: <p>
496:
497: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
498: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
499: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 500: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
501: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 502: <p>
503:
1.276 deraadt 504: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 505: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
506: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
507: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
508: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
509: <p>
510:
511: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 512: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
513: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 514: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
515: Alexandre Anriot.
1.269 krw 516: <p>
517:
518: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
519: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
520: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
521: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
522: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
523: <p>
524:
1.268 krw 525: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
526: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
527: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
528: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
529: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
530: <p>
531:
1.375 grunk 532: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 533: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
534: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
535: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
536: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
537: <p>
538:
539: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
540: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
541: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
542: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
543: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
544: <p>
545:
1.265 wvdputte 546: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
547: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
548: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
549: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
550: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
551: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
552: event."
553: <br>
554: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
555: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
556: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
557: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
558: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
559: <br>
560: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
561: <p>
562:
1.262 henning 563: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
564: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
565: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
566: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
567: Henning's slides from his talks about
568: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
569: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
570: are available.
571: <p>
572:
1.261 deraadt 573: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 574: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 575: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
576: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
577: newly extended version of the
578: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
579: For more information, see this
580: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
581: ComputerWorld article</a>.
582: <p>
583:
584:
1.257 saad 585: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
586: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
587: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
588: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
589: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
590: <p>
591:
592: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
593: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
594: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
595: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
596: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
597: <p>
598:
1.256 mickey 599: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
600: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
601: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
602: session.
603: <p>
604:
1.254 xsa 605: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 606: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 607: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
608: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
609: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
610: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
611: a basic talk about pf.
612: <p>
613:
1.248 deraadt 614: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 615: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 616: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
617: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 618: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
619: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
620: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 621: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
622: <p>
623:
1.247 canacar 624: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
625: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
626: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
627: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
628: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
629: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
630: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
631: projects were discussed.<br>
632: You can view the
1.281 canacar 633: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 634: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 635: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 636: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
637: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
638: <p>
639:
1.242 henning 640: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
641: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
642: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 643: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
644: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
645: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
646: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
647: and systrace
1.263 saad 648: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 649: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
650: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
651: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 652: <p>
653:
1.240 espie 654: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
655: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
656: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
657: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
658: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
659: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
660: <p>
661:
662: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
663: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
664: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 665: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 666: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
667: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
668: <p>
669: </ul>
670:
1.188 henning 671: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 672:
673: <ul>
1.232 jose 674: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
675: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
676: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
677: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
678: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 679: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 680: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 681: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 682: <p>
1.232 jose 683:
1.228 jose 684: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 685: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 686: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
687: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 688: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
689: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 690: with OpenBSD PF.
691: <p>
692:
693: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
694: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
695: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
696: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
697: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 698: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
699: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
700: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
701: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 702: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 703: slides in PDF format </a>
704: (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 705: <p>
706:
1.227 jose 707: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
708: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
709: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
710: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
711: <p>
712:
713: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
714: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
715: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 716: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 717: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 718: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
719: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 720: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 721: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 722: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 723: in Internet worm defenses.
724: <p>
725:
1.224 miod 726: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
727: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
728: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
729: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
730: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
731: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
732: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
733: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
734: OpenBSD.
735: <p>
736:
737: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
738: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
739: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
740: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
741: <p>
742:
743: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
744: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
745: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
746: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
747: <p>
748:
1.219 jose 749: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
750: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
751: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 752: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 753: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
754: <p>
755:
1.218 jose 756: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
757: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
758: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 759: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 760: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
761: <p>
762:
1.214 henning 763: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
764: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 765: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 766: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
767: <p>
768:
1.213 jose 769: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
770: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 771: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 772: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 773: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
774: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
775: <p>
776:
1.211 jose 777: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
778: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 779: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 780: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
781: <p>
782:
783: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
784: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 785: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 786: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 787: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
788: <p>
789:
1.209 wvdputte 790: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
791: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 792: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 793: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
794: <p>
1.195 deraadt 795:
1.202 jason 796: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 797: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 798: Conference</a></strong>,
799: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 800: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
801: <ul>
1.216 jose 802: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 803: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 804: Angelos D. Keromytis,
805: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 806: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 807: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
808: </ul>
809: <p>
810:
1.201 deraadt 811: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 812: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 813: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
814: session.
815: <p>
816:
1.216 jose 817: <li><strong>
818: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
819: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 820: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
821: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
822: <p>
823:
1.216 jose 824: <li><strong>
825: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
826: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 827: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 828: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 829: <p>
830:
1.216 jose 831: <li><strong>
832: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
833: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 834: 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 835: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 836: <p>
837:
1.216 jose 838: <li><strong>
839: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
840: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 841: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
842: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 843: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
844: user groups.
845: <p>
846:
1.236 jose 847: <li><strong>
848: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 849: Group</a></strong>,
850: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 851: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
852: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
853: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
854: <p>
855:
1.216 jose 856: <li><strong>
857: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
858: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 859: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 860: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 861: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
862: <p>
863:
1.216 jose 864: <li><strong>
865: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
866: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 867: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
868: CD sets and Tshirts.
869: <p>
1.236 jose 870: </ul>
1.185 miod 871:
1.161 millert 872: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 873:
874: <ul>
875: <li><strong>
876: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 877: Congress</a></strong>,
878: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 879: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
880: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 881: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
882: <p>
1.177 jason 883:
1.216 jose 884: <li><strong>
885: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
886: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 887: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 888: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 889: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
890: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 891: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 892: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
893: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 894: <p>
1.178 pb 895:
1.216 jose 896: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 897: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 898: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
899: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 900: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
901: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
902: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
903: <p>
904:
1.216 jose 905: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 906: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
907: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
908: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
909: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
910: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
911: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
912: <p>
913:
914: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 915: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
916: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 917: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
918: Niels Provos presented his
919: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
920: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 921: <p>
1.172 miod 922:
1.216 jose 923: <li><strong>
924: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
925: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 926: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
927: <p>
928:
1.216 jose 929: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 930: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 931: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
932: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 933: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
934: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 935: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 936: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 937: <p>
1.168 miod 938:
1.216 jose 939: <li><strong>
940: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
941: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 942: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 943: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
944: are available.
1.161 millert 945: <p>
946:
1.216 jose 947: <li><strong>
948: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
949: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 950: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
951: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
952: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
953: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
954: <p>
955:
1.216 jose 956: <li><strong>
957: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
958: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 959: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
960: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
961: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
962: <p>
1.236 jose 963: </ul>
1.164 millert 964:
1.152 jakob 965: <h3>2001</h3>
966:
1.236 jose 967: <ul>
1.216 jose 968: <li><strong>
969: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
970: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 971: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
972: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
973: <p>
974:
1.216 jose 975: <li><strong>
976: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
977: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 978: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
979: <p>
980:
1.158 deraadt 981: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 982: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 983: 2001</a></strong>,
984: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 985: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
986: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
987: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
988: <p>
989:
1.216 jose 990: <li><strong>
991: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
992: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 993: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
994: <p>
995:
1.201 deraadt 996: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 997: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 998: Jakob and Itojun were there.
999: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1000:
1.150 wvdputte 1001: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1002: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1003: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1004: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1005: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1006: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1007: <p>
1.137 aaron 1008:
1009: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1010: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1011: Conference</a></strong>,
1012: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1013: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1014: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1015: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1016: <p>
1017:
1018: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1019: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1020: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1021: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1022: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1023: <p>
1024:
1025: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1026: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1027: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1028: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1029: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1030: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1031: <p>
1032:
1033: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1034: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1035: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1036: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1037: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1038: <p>
1039:
1040: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1041: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1042: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1043: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1044: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1045: security community.
1046: <p>
1047:
1048: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1049: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1050: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1051: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1052: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1053: <p>
1054:
1055: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1056: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1057: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1058: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1059: <p>
1.236 jose 1060: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1061:
1.132 louis 1062: <h3>2000</h3>
1063:
1.236 jose 1064: <ul>
1.132 louis 1065: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1066: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1067: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1068: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1069: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1070: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1071: <p>
1072:
1073: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1074: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1075: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1076: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1077: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1078: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1079: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1080: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1081: <p>
1082:
1083: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1084: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1085: 2000</a></strong>,
1086: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1087: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 1088: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1089: <p>
1.4 millert 1090:
1.132 louis 1091: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1092: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1093: Summit</a></strong>,
1094: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1095: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1096: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1097: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1098:
1099: <ul>
1.236 jose 1100: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1101: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1102: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1103: </ul>
1.4 millert 1104: <p>
1.132 louis 1105:
1.7 deraadt 1106: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1107: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1108: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1109: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1110: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 1111: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1112: mind (drinks afterwards).
1113: <p>
1114:
1.216 jose 1115: <li><strong>
1116: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1117: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1118: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1119: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1120: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1121:
1.132 louis 1122: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1123: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1124: Revolution</a></strong>,
1125: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1126: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1127: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1128: <p>
1129:
1.132 louis 1130: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1131: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1132: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1133: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1134: <ul>
1.236 jose 1135: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1136: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1137: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1138: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1139: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1140: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1141: <p>
1.132 louis 1142:
1.10 provos 1143: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1144: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1145: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1146: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1147: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1148: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
1149: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1150: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1151: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1152: <br>
1153: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1154: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1155: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1156:
1.132 louis 1157: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1158: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1159: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1160: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1161: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1162: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1163: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1164: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1165: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1166: and spoke about
1167: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1168: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1169: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1170: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1171: <p>
1.132 louis 1172:
1.6 deraadt 1173: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1174: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1175: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1176: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1177: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1178: <br>
1179: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1180: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1181: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1182: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1183:
1.216 jose 1184: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1185: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1186: Conference.</a></strong>,
1187: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1188: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1189: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1190: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1191: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1192: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1193: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1194: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1195: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1196: <ul>
1197:
1198: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1199: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1200: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1201: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1202: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1203:
1204: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1205: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1206: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1207: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1208: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1209:
1.132 louis 1210: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1211: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1212: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1213: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1214: <p>
1215:
1.132 louis 1216: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1217: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1218: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1219: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1220: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1221: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1222: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1223: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1224:
1.132 louis 1225: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1226: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1227: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1228: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1229: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1230: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1231: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1232: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1233: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1234:
1.17 deraadt 1235: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1236: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1237: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1238: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1239: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1240: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1241: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1242: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1243: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1244:
1.23 niklas 1245: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1246: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1247: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1248: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1249: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1250: efforts.
1251: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1252: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1253: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1254: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1255: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1256: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1257:
1.132 louis 1258: <li><strong>
1259: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1260: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1261: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1262: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1263: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1264: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1265: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1266: <p>
1.23 niklas 1267:
1.31 deraadt 1268: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1269: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1270: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1271: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1272: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1273: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1274: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1275: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1276: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1277: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1278:
1.201 deraadt 1279: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1280: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1281: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1282: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1283: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1284: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1285: <p>
1.236 jose 1286: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1287:
1.132 louis 1288: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1289:
1.236 jose 1290: <ul>
1.216 jose 1291: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1292: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1293: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1294: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 1295: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
1296: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1297: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1298: <p>
1299:
1.216 jose 1300: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1301: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1302: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1303: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1304: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1305: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1306: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1307: There were many other OpenBSD
1308: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1309: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
1310:
1311: <ul>
1312: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1313: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1314: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1315: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1316: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1317: </ul>
1318: <p>
1319:
1320: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1321: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1322: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1323: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1324: <p>
1325:
1326: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1327: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1328: Software '99</a></strong>,
1329: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1330: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1331: <a
1.375 grunk 1332: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1333: <p>
1334:
1335: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1336: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1337: 1999</a></strong>,
1338: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1339: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1340: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1341: <p>
1342:
1.236 jose 1343: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1344: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1345: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1346: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1347: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1348: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1349: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1350: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1351: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1352: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1353: conference in Stockholm.
1354: <p>
1355:
1356: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1357: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1358: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1359: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1360: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1361: coordinated.
1362: <p>
1363:
1364: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1365: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1366: Security</a></strong>,
1367: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1368: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1369: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1370: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1371: significant security roles.
1372: <p>
1373:
1374: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1375: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1376: meeting</a></strong>,
1377: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1378: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1379: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1380: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1381: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1382: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1383: <p>
1.45 jason 1384:
1.132 louis 1385: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1386: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1387: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1388: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1389: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1390: <p>
1.132 louis 1391:
1.236 jose 1392: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1393: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1394: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1395: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1396: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1397: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1398: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1399: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1400: June.)
1.132 louis 1401: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1402: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1403: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1404:
1.375 grunk 1405: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1406: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1407: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1408: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1409: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1410: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1411: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1412: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1413: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1414: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1415: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1416: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1417: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1418: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1419: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1420: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1421: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1422: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1423: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1424: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1425: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1426: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1427: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1428: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1429: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1430: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1431: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1432: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1433:
1.51 deraadt 1434: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1435: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1436: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1437: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1438: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1439: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1440: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1441: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1442: <p>
1443:
1.53 jakob 1444: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1445: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1446: meeting</a></strong>,
1447: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1448: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1449: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1450: <p>
1451:
1.132 louis 1452: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1453: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1454: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1455: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1456: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1457: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1458: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1459: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1460: <p>
1.236 jose 1461: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1462:
1.132 louis 1463: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1464:
1.236 jose 1465: <ul>
1.132 louis 1466: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1467: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1468: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1469: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1470: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1471: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1472: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1473: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1474: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1475: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1476: <p>
1477:
1.236 jose 1478: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1479: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1480: Conference</a></strong>,
1481: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1482: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1483: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1484: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1485: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1486: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1487: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1488: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1489: <br>
1490: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1491: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1492: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1493: <p>
1494:
1.73 deraadt 1495: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1496: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1497: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1498: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1499: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1500: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1501: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1502: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1503: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1504:
1.236 jose 1505: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1506: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1507: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1508: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1509: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1510: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1511: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1512: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1513:
1.80 deraadt 1514: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1515: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1516: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1517: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1518: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1519: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1520: <p>
1521:
1.93 louis 1522: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1523: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1524: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1525: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1526: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1527: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1528: <p>
1529:
1.216 jose 1530: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1531: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1532: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1533: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1534: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1535: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1536: <p>
1537:
1.236 jose 1538: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1539: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1540: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1541: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1542: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1543: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1544: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1545: <br>
1546: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1547: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1548: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1549: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1550: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1551:
1.236 jose 1552: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1553: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1554: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1555: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1556: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1557: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1558: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1559: <p>
1560:
1.236 jose 1561: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1562: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1563: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1564: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1565: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1566: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1567: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1568: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1569: <br>
1570: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1571: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1572: <p>
1573:
1.105 wvdputte 1574: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1575: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1576: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1577: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1578: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1579: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1580: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1581: <br>
1.132 louis 1582: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1583: <p>
1.236 jose 1584: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1585:
1.132 louis 1586: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1587:
1.236 jose 1588: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1589: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1590: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1591: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1592: Niels held a
1593: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1594: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1595: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1596: <p>
1.132 louis 1597:
1.236 jose 1598: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1599: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1600: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1601: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1602: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1603: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1604:
1.236 jose 1605: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1606: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1607: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1608: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1609: <br>
1610: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1611: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1612: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1613: <p>
1614:
1.125 deraadt 1615: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1616: <a
1617: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1618: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1619: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1620: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1621: </ul>
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