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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:
1.399 ! wvdputte 31: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
! 32: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaaar 2005</a></strong>,
! 33: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
! 34: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth will be present, <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> is looking for booth slaves.
! 35: <p>
! 36:
1.394 grunk 37: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
38: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
39: September 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
40: NYCBSDCon is a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
41: City *BSD User Group and will be held at Columbia University.
42: The all day conference will include a variety of speakers representing the
43: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
44: NYCBSDCon is organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
45: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
46: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
47: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
48: Additional sponsors include USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
49: <p>
50:
1.396 wvdputte 51: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
52: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
53: Sept 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
54: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gives a
55: <a href=http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/>talk</a> about IT security.
56: <p>
57:
58: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
59: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
1.398 wvdputte 60: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.396 wvdputte 61: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> is looking for booth slaves
62: <p>
63:
1.398 wvdputte 64: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
65: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
66: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
67: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
68: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth
69: <p>
70:
1.393 aanriot 71: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
72: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
73: 2005</a></strong>,
74: Oct 15 - 17, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
75: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
76: <p>
77:
1.395 jsg 78: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
79: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
80: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
81: Mark Uemura will give a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF and a talk on wireless
82: with authpf. Damien Miller will talk about writing secure and portable
83: programs, Reyk Flöter will talk about the current state of wireless
84: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue will give a talk on spamd.
85: Many other OpenBSD developers and users are likely to be present.
86: <p>
87:
1.396 wvdputte 88: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
89: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
90: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
91: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
92: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
93: <p>
94:
1.370 camield 95: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
1.375 grunk 96: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
1.370 camield 97: November 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
98: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD!
99: <p>
100:
1.396 wvdputte 101: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
102: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
103: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
104: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
105: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, booth slaves wanted.
106: <p>
107:
1.367 wvdputte 108: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
1.375 grunk 109: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
1.368 wvdputte 110: November 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
1.369 mbalmer 111: The EuroBSDCon will be held every year now, so we are looking for
1.367 wvdputte 112: people who want to contribute, by giving talks. See the
1.375 grunk 113: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/cfp.php">Call for Papers</a> that is
1.368 wvdputte 114: out now.
1.367 wvdputte 115: <p>
116:
1.387 tom 117: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
1.396 wvdputte 118: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
119: Berlin</a></strong>,
1.386 wvdputte 120: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
121: Join the many OpenBSD developers and users for a Xmas break in a unique setting
122: <p>
123:
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1.152 jakob 142: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 144: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 145:
146: <ul>
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1.388 tom 148: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
149: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
150: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
151: August 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
152: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
153: <p>
154:
1.385 mickey 155: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 156: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.385 mickey 157: July 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
158: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
159: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 160: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
161: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 162: and an excellent
163: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
164: If you want to see what happened previously, check
165: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
166: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
167: <p>
168:
1.382 pedro 169: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
170: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.org/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
171: July 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 172: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
173: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
174: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 175: <p>
176:
1.378 aanriot 177: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
178: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
179: July 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 180: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
181: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
182: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
183: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 184: <p>
185:
1.375 grunk 186: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
187: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
188: June 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
189: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
190: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
191: <p>
192:
1.374 grunk 193: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
194: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
195: Computing 2005</a></strong>, June 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
196: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
197: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
198: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
199: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
200: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
201: <p>
202:
1.371 deraadt 203: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
204: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
205: Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando at 19:00-21:00, June 2, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
206: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
207: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
208: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
209: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
210: He demonstrated how companies can easily
211: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
212: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
213: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
214: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
215: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
216: <p>
217:
1.366 martin 218: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
219: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
220: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
221: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
222: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
223: CDs and shirts.
224: <p>
225:
1.365 mcbride 226: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
227: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
228: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
229: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
230: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
231: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
232: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
233: <br>
234: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
235: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
236: <p>
237:
1.362 reyk 238: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
239: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
240: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
241: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
242: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
243: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
244: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
245: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
246: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
247: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
248: <p>
249:
1.358 mcbride 250: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
251: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
252: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
253: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
254: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
255: <p>
256:
1.357 henning 257: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
258: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
259: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
260: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
261: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
262: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
263: <p>
264:
1.384 tom 265: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 266: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
267: April 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
268: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
269: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
270: packages work in front of about 30 people.
271: <p>
272:
1.353 henning 273: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
274: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
275: April 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
276: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
277: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
278: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
279: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 280: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 281: <p>
282:
1.352 henning 283: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
284: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
285: April 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
286: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
287: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
288: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
289: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
290: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
291: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
292: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
293: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
294: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
295: available if you couldn't make it there.
296: <p>
297:
1.350 marius 298: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
299:
300: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
301: Technical Conference</a></strong>, April 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
302: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
303: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
304: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
305: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
306: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 307: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 308: <p>
309:
1.345 henning 310: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
311: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
312: April 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
313: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
314: <p>
315:
1.344 martin 316: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
317: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
318: April 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
319: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
320: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
321: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
322: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
323: (in French) are available.
324: <p>
325:
1.337 deraadt 326: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
327: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
328: March 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
329: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
330: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 331: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 332: source firewalls.
333: <p>
334:
1.317 henning 335: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
336: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
337: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 338: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 339: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 340: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 341: <p>
342:
1.312 deraadt 343: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
344: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
345: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 346: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
347: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 348: <p>
349:
1.319 saad 350: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
351: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
352: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
353: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
354: <p>
355:
1.310 mickey 356: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 357: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 358: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 359: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 360: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
361: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 362: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 363: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 364: <p>
1.312 deraadt 365:
1.308 deraadt 366: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
367: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
368: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
369: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 370: talks. Topics included
371: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 372: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
373: OpenBGPD, and pf.
374: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 375: <p>
376:
1.304 saad 377: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
378: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
379: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
380: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
381: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 382: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 383: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 384: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
385: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 386: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 387: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
388: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
389: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 390: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 391: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
392: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
393: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
394: <p>
1.301 saad 395: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
396: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
397: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
398: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
399: <p>
400: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
401: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
402: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
403: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
404: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
405: <p>
1.293 saad 406: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
407: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
408: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
409: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
410: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
411: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 412: french translation team.<br>
413: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
414: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
415: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
416: available.<br>
417: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 418: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
419: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
420: <p>
1.296 mcbride 421: </ul>
1.293 saad 422:
1.296 mcbride 423: <h3>2004</h3>
424:
425: <ul>
1.287 henning 426: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
427: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 428: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 429: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
430: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
431: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 432: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 433: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
434: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
435: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
436: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
437: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
438: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 439: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 440: driver.
441: <p>
1.248 deraadt 442:
1.286 kevlo 443: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
444: <a href="http://www.slat.org/icos/icos04/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
445: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
446: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
447: <p>
448:
1.285 deraadt 449: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
450: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
451: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
452: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
453: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
454: <p>
455:
1.283 saad 456: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
457: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
458: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
459: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
460: meeting of the
461: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
462: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 463: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 464: <p>
465:
1.282 henning 466: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
467: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
468: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
469: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
470: two days, on bgpd
471: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
472: ntpd
473: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
474: and signal handlers
475: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
476: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
477: <p>
478:
1.275 deraadt 479: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
480: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
481: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
482: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
483: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
484: Room B-02 of the
485: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
486: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
487: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
488: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
489: The talk was also given the following day at the
490: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
491: <p>
492:
1.271 henning 493: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
494: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
495: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 496: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
497: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 498: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 499: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 500: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 501: <p>
502:
503: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
504: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
505: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 506: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
507: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 508: <p>
509:
1.276 deraadt 510: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 511: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
512: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
513: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
514: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
515: <p>
516:
517: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 518: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
519: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 520: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
521: Alexandre Anriot.
1.269 krw 522: <p>
523:
524: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
525: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
526: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
527: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
528: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
529: <p>
530:
1.268 krw 531: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
532: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
533: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
534: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
535: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
536: <p>
537:
1.375 grunk 538: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 539: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
540: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
541: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
542: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
543: <p>
544:
545: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
546: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
547: , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
548: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
549: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
550: <p>
551:
1.265 wvdputte 552: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
553: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
554: Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
555: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
556: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
557: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
558: event."
559: <br>
560: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
561: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
562: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
563: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
564: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
565: <br>
566: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
567: <p>
568:
1.262 henning 569: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
570: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
571: Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
572: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
573: Henning's slides from his talks about
574: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
575: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
576: are available.
577: <p>
578:
1.261 deraadt 579: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 580: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 581: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
582: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
583: newly extended version of the
584: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
585: For more information, see this
586: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
587: ComputerWorld article</a>.
588: <p>
589:
590:
1.257 saad 591: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
592: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
593: July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
594: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
595: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
596: <p>
597:
598: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
599: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
600: June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
601: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
602: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
603: <p>
604:
1.256 mickey 605: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
606: June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
607: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
608: session.
609: <p>
610:
1.254 xsa 611: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 612: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 613: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
614: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
615: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
616: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
617: a basic talk about pf.
618: <p>
619:
1.248 deraadt 620: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 621: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 622: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
623: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 624: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
625: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
626: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 627: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
628: <p>
629:
1.247 canacar 630: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
631: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
632: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
633: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
634: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
635: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
636: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
637: projects were discussed.<br>
638: You can view the
1.281 canacar 639: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 640: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 641: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 642: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
643: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
644: <p>
645:
1.242 henning 646: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
647: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
648: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 649: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
650: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
651: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
652: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
653: and systrace
1.263 saad 654: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 655: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
656: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
657: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 658: <p>
659:
1.240 espie 660: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
661: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
662: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
663: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
664: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
665: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
666: <p>
667:
668: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
669: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
670: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 671: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 672: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
673: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
674: <p>
675: </ul>
676:
1.188 henning 677: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 678:
679: <ul>
1.232 jose 680: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
681: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
682: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
683: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
684: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 685: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 686: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 687: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 688: <p>
1.232 jose 689:
1.228 jose 690: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 691: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 692: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
693: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 694: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
695: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 696: with OpenBSD PF.
697: <p>
698:
699: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
700: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
701: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
702: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
703: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 704: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
705: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
706: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
707: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 708: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 709: slides in PDF format </a>
710: (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 711: <p>
712:
1.227 jose 713: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
714: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
715: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
716: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
717: <p>
718:
719: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
720: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
721: November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 722: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 723: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 724: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
725: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 726: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 727: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 728: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 729: in Internet worm defenses.
730: <p>
731:
1.224 miod 732: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
733: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
734: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
735: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
736: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
737: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
738: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
739: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
740: OpenBSD.
741: <p>
742:
743: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
744: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
745: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
746: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
747: <p>
748:
749: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
750: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
751: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
752: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
753: <p>
754:
1.219 jose 755: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
756: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
757: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 758: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 759: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
760: <p>
761:
1.218 jose 762: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
763: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
764: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 765: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 766: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
767: <p>
768:
1.214 henning 769: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
770: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 771: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 772: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
773: <p>
774:
1.213 jose 775: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
776: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 777: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 778: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 779: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
780: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
781: <p>
782:
1.211 jose 783: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
784: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 785: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 786: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
787: <p>
788:
789: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
790: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 791: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 792: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 793: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
794: <p>
795:
1.209 wvdputte 796: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
797: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 798: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 799: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
800: <p>
1.195 deraadt 801:
1.202 jason 802: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 803: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 804: Conference</a></strong>,
805: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 806: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
807: <ul>
1.216 jose 808: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 809: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 810: Angelos D. Keromytis,
811: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 812: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 813: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
814: </ul>
815: <p>
816:
1.201 deraadt 817: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 818: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 819: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
820: session.
821: <p>
822:
1.216 jose 823: <li><strong>
824: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
825: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 826: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
827: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
828: <p>
829:
1.216 jose 830: <li><strong>
831: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
832: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 833: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 834: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 835: <p>
836:
1.216 jose 837: <li><strong>
838: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
839: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 840: 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 841: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 842: <p>
843:
1.216 jose 844: <li><strong>
845: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
846: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 847: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
848: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 849: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
850: user groups.
851: <p>
852:
1.236 jose 853: <li><strong>
854: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 855: Group</a></strong>,
856: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 857: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
858: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
859: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
860: <p>
861:
1.216 jose 862: <li><strong>
863: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
864: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 865: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 866: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 867: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
868: <p>
869:
1.216 jose 870: <li><strong>
871: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
872: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 873: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
874: CD sets and Tshirts.
875: <p>
1.236 jose 876: </ul>
1.185 miod 877:
1.161 millert 878: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 879:
880: <ul>
881: <li><strong>
882: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 883: Congress</a></strong>,
884: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 885: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
886: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.184 wvdputte 887: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
888: <p>
1.177 jason 889:
1.216 jose 890: <li><strong>
891: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
892: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 893: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 894: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 895: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
896: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 897: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 898: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
899: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 900: <p>
1.178 pb 901:
1.216 jose 902: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 903: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 904: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
905: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 906: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
907: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
908: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
909: <p>
910:
1.216 jose 911: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 912: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
913: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
914: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
915: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
916: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
917: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
918: <p>
919:
920: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 921: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
922: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 923: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
924: Niels Provos presented his
925: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
926: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 927: <p>
1.172 miod 928:
1.216 jose 929: <li><strong>
930: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
931: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 932: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
933: <p>
934:
1.216 jose 935: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 936: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 937: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
938: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 939: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
940: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 941: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 942: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 943: <p>
1.168 miod 944:
1.216 jose 945: <li><strong>
946: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
947: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 948: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 949: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
950: are available.
1.161 millert 951: <p>
952:
1.216 jose 953: <li><strong>
954: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
955: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 956: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
957: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
958: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
959: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
960: <p>
961:
1.216 jose 962: <li><strong>
963: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
964: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 965: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
966: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
967: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
968: <p>
1.236 jose 969: </ul>
1.164 millert 970:
1.152 jakob 971: <h3>2001</h3>
972:
1.236 jose 973: <ul>
1.216 jose 974: <li><strong>
975: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
976: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 977: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
978: tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
979: <p>
980:
1.216 jose 981: <li><strong>
982: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
983: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 984: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
985: <p>
986:
1.158 deraadt 987: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 988: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 989: 2001</a></strong>,
990: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 991: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
992: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
993: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
994: <p>
995:
1.216 jose 996: <li><strong>
997: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
998: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 999: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1000: <p>
1001:
1.201 deraadt 1002: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1003: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1004: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1005: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1006:
1.150 wvdputte 1007: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1008: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1009: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1010: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1011: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1012: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1013: <p>
1.137 aaron 1014:
1015: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1016: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1017: Conference</a></strong>,
1018: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1019: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1020: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1021: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1022: <p>
1023:
1024: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1025: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1026: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1027: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1028: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1029: <p>
1030:
1031: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1032: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1033: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1034: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1035: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1036: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1037: <p>
1038:
1039: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1040: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1041: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1042: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1043: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1044: <p>
1045:
1046: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1047: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1048: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1049: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1050: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1051: security community.
1052: <p>
1053:
1054: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1055: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1056: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1057: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1058: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1059: <p>
1060:
1061: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1062: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1063: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1064: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1065: <p>
1.236 jose 1066: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1067:
1.132 louis 1068: <h3>2000</h3>
1069:
1.236 jose 1070: <ul>
1.132 louis 1071: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1072: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1073: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1074: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1075: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1076: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1077: <p>
1078:
1079: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1080: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1081: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1082: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1083: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1084: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1085: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1086: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1087: <p>
1088:
1089: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1090: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1091: 2000</a></strong>,
1092: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1093: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.132 louis 1094: get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1095: <p>
1.4 millert 1096:
1.132 louis 1097: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1098: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1099: Summit</a></strong>,
1100: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1101: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1102: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1103: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1104:
1105: <ul>
1.236 jose 1106: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1107: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1108: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1109: </ul>
1.4 millert 1110: <p>
1.132 louis 1111:
1.7 deraadt 1112: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1113: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1114: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1115: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1116: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.236 jose 1117: your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1118: mind (drinks afterwards).
1119: <p>
1120:
1.216 jose 1121: <li><strong>
1122: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1123: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1124: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1125: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1126: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1127:
1.132 louis 1128: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1129: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1130: Revolution</a></strong>,
1131: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1132: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1133: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1134: <p>
1135:
1.132 louis 1136: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1137: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1138: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1139: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1140: <ul>
1.236 jose 1141: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1142: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1143: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1144: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1145: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1146: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1147: <p>
1.132 louis 1148:
1.10 provos 1149: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1150: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1151: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1152: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1153: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1154: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
1155: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1156: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1157: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1158: <br>
1159: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1160: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1161: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1162:
1.132 louis 1163: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1164: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1165: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1166: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1167: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1168: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1169: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1170: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1171: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1172: and spoke about
1173: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1174: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1175: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1176: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1177: <p>
1.132 louis 1178:
1.6 deraadt 1179: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1180: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1181: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1182: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1183: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1184: <br>
1185: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1186: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1187: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1188: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1189:
1.216 jose 1190: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1191: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1192: Conference.</a></strong>,
1193: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1194: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1195: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1196: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1197: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1198: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1199: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1200: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1201: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1202: <ul>
1203:
1204: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1205: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1206: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1207: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1208: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1209:
1210: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1211: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1212: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1213: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1214: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1215:
1.132 louis 1216: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1217: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1218: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1219: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1220: <p>
1221:
1.132 louis 1222: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1223: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1224: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1225: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1226: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1227: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1228: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1229: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1230:
1.132 louis 1231: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1232: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1233: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1234: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1235: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1236: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1237: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1238: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1239: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1240:
1.17 deraadt 1241: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1242: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1243: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1244: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1245: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1246: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1247: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1248: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1249: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1250:
1.23 niklas 1251: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1252: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1253: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1254: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1255: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1256: efforts.
1257: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1258: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1259: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1260: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1261: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1262: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1263:
1.132 louis 1264: <li><strong>
1265: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1266: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1267: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1268: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1269: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1270: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1271: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1272: <p>
1.23 niklas 1273:
1.31 deraadt 1274: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1275: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1276: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1277: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1278: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1279: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1280: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1281: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1282: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1283: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1284:
1.201 deraadt 1285: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1286: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1287: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1288: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1289: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1290: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1291: <p>
1.236 jose 1292: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1293:
1.132 louis 1294: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1295:
1.236 jose 1296: <ul>
1.216 jose 1297: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1298: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1299: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1300: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.132 louis 1301: 2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
1302: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1303: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1304: <p>
1305:
1.216 jose 1306: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1307: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1308: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1309: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1310: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1311: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1312: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1313: There were many other OpenBSD
1314: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1315: t-shirts. His paper is available at:
1316:
1317: <ul>
1318: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1319: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1320: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1321: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1322: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1323: </ul>
1324: <p>
1325:
1326: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1327: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1328: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1329: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1330: <p>
1331:
1332: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1333: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1334: Software '99</a></strong>,
1335: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1336: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1337: <a
1.375 grunk 1338: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1339: <p>
1340:
1341: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1342: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1343: 1999</a></strong>,
1344: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1345: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1346: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1347: <p>
1348:
1.236 jose 1349: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1350: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1351: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1352: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1353: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1354: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1355: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1356: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1357: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1358: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1359: conference in Stockholm.
1360: <p>
1361:
1362: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1363: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1364: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1365: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1366: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1367: coordinated.
1368: <p>
1369:
1370: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1371: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1372: Security</a></strong>,
1373: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1374: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1375: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1376: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1377: significant security roles.
1378: <p>
1379:
1380: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1381: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1382: meeting</a></strong>,
1383: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1384: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1385: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1386: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1387: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1388: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1389: <p>
1.45 jason 1390:
1.132 louis 1391: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1392: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1393: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1394: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1395: and a TON of tshirts.
1.46 deraadt 1396: <p>
1.132 louis 1397:
1.236 jose 1398: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1399: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1400: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1401: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1402: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1403: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1404: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1405: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1406: June.)
1.132 louis 1407: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1408: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1409: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1410:
1.375 grunk 1411: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1412: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1413: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1414: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1415: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1416: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1417: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1418: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1419: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1420: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1421: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1422: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1423: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1424: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1425: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1426: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1427: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1428: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1429: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1430: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1431: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1432: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1433: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1434: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1435: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1436: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1437: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1438: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1439:
1.51 deraadt 1440: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1441: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1442: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1443: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1444: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1445: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1446: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1447: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1448: <p>
1449:
1.53 jakob 1450: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1451: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1452: meeting</a></strong>,
1453: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1454: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1455: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1456: <p>
1457:
1.132 louis 1458: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1459: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1460: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1461: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1462: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1463: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1464: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1465: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1466: <p>
1.236 jose 1467: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1468:
1.132 louis 1469: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1470:
1.236 jose 1471: <ul>
1.132 louis 1472: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1473: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1474: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1475: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1476: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1477: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1478: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1479: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1480: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1481: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1482: <p>
1483:
1.236 jose 1484: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1485: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1486: Conference</a></strong>,
1487: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1488: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1489: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1490: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1491: 2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1492: "Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1493: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1494: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1495: <br>
1496: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1497: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1498: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1499: <p>
1500:
1.73 deraadt 1501: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1502: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1503: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1504: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1505: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1506: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1507: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1508: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1509: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1510:
1.236 jose 1511: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1512: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1513: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1514: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1515: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1516: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1517: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1518: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1519:
1.80 deraadt 1520: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1521: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1522: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1523: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1524: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1525: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1526: <p>
1527:
1.93 louis 1528: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1529: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1530: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1531: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1532: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1533: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1534: <p>
1535:
1.216 jose 1536: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1537: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1538: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1539: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1540: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1541: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1542: <p>
1543:
1.236 jose 1544: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1545: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1546: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1547: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1548: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1549: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1550: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1551: <br>
1552: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1553: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.132 louis 1554: "wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1555: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1556: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1557:
1.236 jose 1558: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1559: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1560: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1561: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1562: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1563: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1564: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1565: <p>
1566:
1.236 jose 1567: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1568: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1569: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1570: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1571: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1572: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1573: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1574: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1575: <br>
1576: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1577: first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1578: <p>
1579:
1.105 wvdputte 1580: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1581: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1582: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1583: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1584: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1585: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1586: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1587: <br>
1.132 louis 1588: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1589: <p>
1.236 jose 1590: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1591:
1.132 louis 1592: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1593:
1.236 jose 1594: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1595: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1596: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1597: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1598: Niels held a
1599: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1600: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1601: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1602: <p>
1.132 louis 1603:
1.236 jose 1604: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1605: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1606: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1607: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1608: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1609: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1610:
1.236 jose 1611: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1612: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1613: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1614: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1615: <br>
1616: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1617: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1618: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1619: <p>
1620:
1.125 deraadt 1621: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1622: <a
1623: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1624: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1625: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1626: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1627: </ul>
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