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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:
1.396 wvdputte 31: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
32: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
33: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
34: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
35: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, booth slaves wanted.
36: <p>
37:
1.367 wvdputte 38: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
1.375 grunk 39: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 40: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
1.369 mbalmer 41: The EuroBSDCon will be held every year now, so we are looking for
1.405 wvdputte 42: people who want to help out during the event.<br>
43: The program has been published now and includes a
44: <a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php>tutorial by Reyk about
45: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and talks by
46: <a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-brauer.php>Henning Brauer with
47: Wilhelm Bühler</a>,
48: <a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-ryan.php>Ryan McBride</a>,
49: <a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-herrb.php>Matthieu Herrb and
50: Matthias Hopf</a>,
51: <a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-jeker.php>Claudio Jeker</a>,
1.409 niallo 52: <a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-niallo.php>Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler</a> and
1.407 mbalmer 53: <a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-tedu.php>Ted Unangst</a>.
54: <p>
55: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
56: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.367 wvdputte 57: <p>
58:
1.387 tom 59: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
1.396 wvdputte 60: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
61: Berlin</a></strong>,
1.386 wvdputte 62: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
63: Join the many OpenBSD developers and users for a Xmas break in a unique setting
64: <p>
65:
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1.152 jakob 84: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 86: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 87:
88: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 89:
1.424 mbalmer 90: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
91: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
92: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 93: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
94: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
95: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 96: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 97: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.430 henning 98: talks, including Marc Espie,
99: <a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer</a>,
1.431 ! niallo 100: <a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins</a>,
1.428 pvalchev 101: <a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev</a>,
102: and <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt</a>.
1.424 mbalmer 103: <p>
104:
105: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
106: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
107: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 108: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 109: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
110: <p>
111:
1.418 djm 112: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
113: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
114: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
115: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
116: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
117: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
118: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 119: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
120: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
121: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 122: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
123: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
124: <p>
125:
1.415 aanriot 126: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
127: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
128: 2005</a></strong>,
129: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
130: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
131: help of Thierry Thomas.
132: <p>
133:
1.420 deraadt 134: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
135: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
136: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
137: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
138: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
139: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
140: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
141: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
142: registration was mandatory.<br>
143: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
144: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
145: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
146: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
147: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
148: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
149: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
150: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
151: mechanism.
152: <p>
153:
1.414 bernd 154: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
155: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
156: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
157: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
158: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
159: <p>
160:
161: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
162: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
163: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
164: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
165: <p>
166:
1.410 wvdputte 167: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
168: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
169: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
170: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
171: <a href=http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/>talk</a> about IT security.
172: <p>
173:
174: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
175: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
176: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
177: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
178: <a href=http://www.gubug.org/>The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
179: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
180: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
181: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
182: installed on your computer.
183: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 184: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 185: <p>
186:
1.404 wvdputte 187: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
188: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 189: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 190: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
191: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 192: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 193: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
194: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
195: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
196: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
197: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
198: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
199: <p>
200:
201: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
202: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
203: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
204: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
205: <p>
206:
1.403 henning 207: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
208: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 209: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 210: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
211: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
212: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
213: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
214: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
215: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
216: <p>
217:
1.388 tom 218: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
219: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
220: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 221: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 222: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
223: <p>
224:
1.385 mickey 225: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 226: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 227: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 228: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
229: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 230: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
231: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 232: and an excellent
233: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
234: If you want to see what happened previously, check
235: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
236: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
237: <p>
238:
1.382 pedro 239: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
240: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.org/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 241: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 242: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
243: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
244: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 245: <p>
246:
1.378 aanriot 247: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
248: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 249: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 250: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
251: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
252: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
253: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 254: <p>
255:
1.375 grunk 256: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
257: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 258: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 259: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
260: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
261: <p>
262:
1.374 grunk 263: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
264: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 265: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 266: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
267: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
268: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
269: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
270: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
271: <p>
272:
1.371 deraadt 273: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
274: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 275: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 276: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
277: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
278: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
279: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
280: He demonstrated how companies can easily
281: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
282: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
283: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
284: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
285: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
286: <p>
287:
1.366 martin 288: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
289: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
290: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
291: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
292: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
293: CDs and shirts.
294: <p>
295:
1.365 mcbride 296: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
297: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
298: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
299: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
300: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
301: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
302: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
303: <br>
304: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
305: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
306: <p>
307:
1.362 reyk 308: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
309: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
310: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
311: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
312: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
313: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
314: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
315: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
316: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
317: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
318: <p>
319:
1.358 mcbride 320: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
321: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
322: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
323: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
324: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
325: <p>
326:
1.357 henning 327: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
328: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
329: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
330: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
331: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
332: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
333: <p>
334:
1.384 tom 335: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 336: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 337: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 338: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
339: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
340: packages work in front of about 30 people.
341: <p>
342:
1.353 henning 343: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
344: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 345: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 346: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
347: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
348: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
349: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 350: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 351: <p>
352:
1.352 henning 353: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
354: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 355: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 356: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
357: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
358: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
359: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
360: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
361: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
362: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
363: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
364: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
365: available if you couldn't make it there.
366: <p>
367:
1.350 marius 368: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
369:
370: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 371: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 372: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
373: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
374: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
375: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
376: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 377: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 378: <p>
379:
1.345 henning 380: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
381: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 382: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 383: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
384: <p>
385:
1.344 martin 386: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
387: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 388: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 389: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
390: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
391: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
392: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
393: (in French) are available.
394: <p>
395:
1.337 deraadt 396: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
397: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 398: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 399: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
400: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 401: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 402: source firewalls.
403: <p>
404:
1.317 henning 405: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
406: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
407: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 408: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 409: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 410: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 411: <p>
412:
1.312 deraadt 413: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
414: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
415: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 416: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
417: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 418: <p>
419:
1.319 saad 420: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
421: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
422: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
423: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
424: <p>
425:
1.310 mickey 426: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 427: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 428: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 429: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 430: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
431: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 432: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 433: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 434: <p>
1.312 deraadt 435:
1.308 deraadt 436: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
437: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
438: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
439: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 440: talks. Topics included
441: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 442: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
443: OpenBGPD, and pf.
444: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 445: <p>
446:
1.304 saad 447: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
448: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
449: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
450: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
451: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 452: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 453: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 454: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
455: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 456: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 457: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
458: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
459: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 460: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 461: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
462: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
463: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
464: <p>
1.301 saad 465: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
466: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
467: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
468: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
469: <p>
470: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
471: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
472: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
473: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
474: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
475: <p>
1.293 saad 476: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
477: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
478: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
479: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
480: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
481: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 482: french translation team.<br>
483: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
484: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
485: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
486: available.<br>
487: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 488: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
489: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
490: <p>
1.296 mcbride 491: </ul>
1.293 saad 492:
1.296 mcbride 493: <h3>2004</h3>
494:
495: <ul>
1.287 henning 496: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
497: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 498: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 499: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
500: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
501: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 502: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 503: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
504: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
505: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
506: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
507: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
508: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 509: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 510: driver.
511: <p>
1.248 deraadt 512:
1.286 kevlo 513: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 514: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 515: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
516: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
517: <p>
518:
1.285 deraadt 519: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
520: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
521: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
522: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
523: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
524: <p>
525:
1.283 saad 526: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
527: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
528: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
529: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
530: meeting of the
531: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
532: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 533: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 534: <p>
535:
1.282 henning 536: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
537: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
538: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
539: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
540: two days, on bgpd
541: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
542: ntpd
543: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
544: and signal handlers
545: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
546: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
547: <p>
548:
1.275 deraadt 549: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
550: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
551: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
552: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
553: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
554: Room B-02 of the
555: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
556: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
557: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
558: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
559: The talk was also given the following day at the
560: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
561: <p>
562:
1.271 henning 563: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
564: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
565: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 566: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
567: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 568: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 569: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 570: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 571: <p>
572:
573: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
574: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
575: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 576: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
577: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 578: <p>
579:
1.276 deraadt 580: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 581: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
582: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
583: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
584: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
585: <p>
586:
587: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 588: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
589: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 590: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 591: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 592: <p>
593:
594: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
595: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
596: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
597: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
598: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
599: <p>
600:
1.268 krw 601: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
602: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
603: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
604: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
605: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
606: <p>
607:
1.375 grunk 608: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 609: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
610: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
611: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
612: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
613: <p>
614:
615: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
616: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 617: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 618: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
619: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
620: <p>
621:
1.265 wvdputte 622: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
623: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 624: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 625: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
626: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
627: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
628: event."
629: <br>
630: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
631: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
632: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
633: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
634: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
635: <br>
636: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
637: <p>
638:
1.262 henning 639: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
640: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 641: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 642: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
643: Henning's slides from his talks about
644: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
645: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
646: are available.
647: <p>
648:
1.261 deraadt 649: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 650: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 651: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
652: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
653: newly extended version of the
654: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
655: For more information, see this
656: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
657: ComputerWorld article</a>.
658: <p>
659:
660:
1.257 saad 661: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
662: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 663: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 664: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
665: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
666: <p>
667:
668: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
669: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 670: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 671: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
672: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
673: <p>
674:
1.256 mickey 675: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 676: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 677: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
678: session.
679: <p>
680:
1.254 xsa 681: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 682: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 683: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
684: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
685: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
686: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
687: a basic talk about pf.
688: <p>
689:
1.248 deraadt 690: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 691: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 692: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
693: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 694: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
695: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
696: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 697: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
698: <p>
699:
1.247 canacar 700: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
701: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
702: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
703: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
704: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
705: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
706: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
707: projects were discussed.<br>
708: You can view the
1.281 canacar 709: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 710: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 711: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 712: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
713: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
714: <p>
715:
1.242 henning 716: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
717: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
718: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 719: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
720: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
721: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
722: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
723: and systrace
1.263 saad 724: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 725: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
726: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
727: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 728: <p>
729:
1.240 espie 730: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
731: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
732: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
733: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
734: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
735: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
736: <p>
737:
738: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
739: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
740: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 741: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 742: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
743: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
744: <p>
745: </ul>
746:
1.188 henning 747: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 748:
749: <ul>
1.232 jose 750: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
751: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
752: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
753: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
754: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 755: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 756: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 757: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 758: <p>
1.232 jose 759:
1.228 jose 760: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 761: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 762: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
763: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 764: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
765: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 766: with OpenBSD PF.
767: <p>
768:
769: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
770: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
771: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
772: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
773: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 774: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
775: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
776: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
777: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 778: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 779: slides in PDF format </a>
780: (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 781: <p>
782:
1.227 jose 783: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
784: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
785: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
786: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
787: <p>
788:
789: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
790: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 791: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 792: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 793: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 794: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
795: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 796: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 797: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 798: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 799: in Internet worm defenses.
800: <p>
801:
1.224 miod 802: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
803: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
804: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
805: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
806: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
807: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
808: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
809: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
810: OpenBSD.
811: <p>
812:
813: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
814: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
815: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
816: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
817: <p>
818:
819: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
820: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
821: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
822: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
823: <p>
824:
1.219 jose 825: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
826: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
827: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 828: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 829: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
830: <p>
831:
1.218 jose 832: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
833: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
834: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 835: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 836: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
837: <p>
838:
1.214 henning 839: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
840: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 841: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 842: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
843: <p>
844:
1.213 jose 845: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
846: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 847: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 848: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 849: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
850: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
851: <p>
852:
1.211 jose 853: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
854: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 855: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 856: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
857: <p>
858:
859: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
860: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 861: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 862: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 863: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
864: <p>
865:
1.209 wvdputte 866: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
867: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 868: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 869: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
870: <p>
1.195 deraadt 871:
1.202 jason 872: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 873: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 874: Conference</a></strong>,
875: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 876: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
877: <ul>
1.216 jose 878: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 879: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 880: Angelos D. Keromytis,
881: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 882: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 883: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
884: </ul>
885: <p>
886:
1.201 deraadt 887: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 888: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 889: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
890: session.
891: <p>
892:
1.216 jose 893: <li><strong>
894: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
895: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 896: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
897: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
898: <p>
899:
1.216 jose 900: <li><strong>
901: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
902: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 903: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 904: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 905: <p>
906:
1.216 jose 907: <li><strong>
908: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
909: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 910: 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 911: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 912: <p>
913:
1.216 jose 914: <li><strong>
915: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
916: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 917: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
918: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 919: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
920: user groups.
921: <p>
922:
1.236 jose 923: <li><strong>
924: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 925: Group</a></strong>,
926: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 927: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
928: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
929: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
930: <p>
931:
1.216 jose 932: <li><strong>
933: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
934: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 935: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 936: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 937: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
938: <p>
939:
1.216 jose 940: <li><strong>
941: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
942: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 943: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 944: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 945: <p>
1.236 jose 946: </ul>
1.185 miod 947:
1.161 millert 948: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 949:
950: <ul>
951: <li><strong>
952: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 953: Congress</a></strong>,
954: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 955: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
956: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 957: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 958: <p>
1.177 jason 959:
1.216 jose 960: <li><strong>
961: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
962: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 963: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 964: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 965: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
966: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 967: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 968: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
969: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 970: <p>
1.178 pb 971:
1.216 jose 972: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 973: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 974: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
975: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 976: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
977: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
978: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
979: <p>
980:
1.216 jose 981: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 982: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
983: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
984: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
985: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
986: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
987: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
988: <p>
989:
990: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 991: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
992: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 993: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
994: Niels Provos presented his
995: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
996: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 997: <p>
1.172 miod 998:
1.216 jose 999: <li><strong>
1000: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1001: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1002: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1003: <p>
1004:
1.216 jose 1005: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1006: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1007: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1008: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1009: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1010: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1011: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1012: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1013: <p>
1.168 miod 1014:
1.216 jose 1015: <li><strong>
1016: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1017: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1018: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1019: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1020: are available.
1.161 millert 1021: <p>
1022:
1.216 jose 1023: <li><strong>
1024: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1025: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1026: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1027: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1028: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1029: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1030: <p>
1031:
1.216 jose 1032: <li><strong>
1033: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1034: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1035: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1036: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1037: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1038: <p>
1.236 jose 1039: </ul>
1.164 millert 1040:
1.152 jakob 1041: <h3>2001</h3>
1042:
1.236 jose 1043: <ul>
1.216 jose 1044: <li><strong>
1045: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1046: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1047: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1048: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1049: <p>
1050:
1.216 jose 1051: <li><strong>
1052: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1053: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1054: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1055: <p>
1056:
1.158 deraadt 1057: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1058: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1059: 2001</a></strong>,
1060: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1061: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1062: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1063: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1064: <p>
1065:
1.216 jose 1066: <li><strong>
1067: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1068: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1069: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1070: <p>
1071:
1.201 deraadt 1072: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1073: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1074: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1075: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1076:
1.150 wvdputte 1077: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1078: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1079: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1080: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1081: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1082: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1083: <p>
1.137 aaron 1084:
1085: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1086: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1087: Conference</a></strong>,
1088: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1089: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1090: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1091: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1092: <p>
1093:
1094: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1095: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1096: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1097: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1098: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1099: <p>
1100:
1101: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1102: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1103: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1104: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1105: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1106: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1107: <p>
1108:
1109: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1110: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1111: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1112: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1113: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1114: <p>
1115:
1116: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1117: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1118: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1119: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1120: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1121: security community.
1122: <p>
1123:
1124: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1125: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1126: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1127: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1128: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1129: <p>
1130:
1131: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1132: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1133: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1134: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1135: <p>
1.236 jose 1136: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1137:
1.132 louis 1138: <h3>2000</h3>
1139:
1.236 jose 1140: <ul>
1.132 louis 1141: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1142: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1143: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1144: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1145: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1146: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1147: <p>
1148:
1149: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1150: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1151: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1152: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1153: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1154: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1155: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1156: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1157: <p>
1158:
1159: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1160: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1161: 2000</a></strong>,
1162: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1163: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1164: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1165: <p>
1.4 millert 1166:
1.132 louis 1167: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1168: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1169: Summit</a></strong>,
1170: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1171: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1172: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1173: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1174:
1175: <ul>
1.236 jose 1176: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1177: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1178: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1179: </ul>
1.4 millert 1180: <p>
1.132 louis 1181:
1.7 deraadt 1182: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1183: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1184: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1185: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1186: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1187: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1188: mind (drinks afterwards).
1189: <p>
1190:
1.216 jose 1191: <li><strong>
1192: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1193: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1194: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1195: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1196: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1197:
1.132 louis 1198: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1199: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1200: Revolution</a></strong>,
1201: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1202: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1203: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1204: <p>
1205:
1.132 louis 1206: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1207: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1208: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1209: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1210: <ul>
1.236 jose 1211: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1212: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1213: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1214: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1215: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1216: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1217: <p>
1.132 louis 1218:
1.10 provos 1219: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1220: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1221: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1222: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1223: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1224: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1225: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1226: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1227: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1228: <br>
1229: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1230: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1231: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1232:
1.132 louis 1233: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1234: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1235: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1236: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1237: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1238: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1239: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1240: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1241: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1242: and spoke about
1243: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1244: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1245: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1246: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1247: <p>
1.132 louis 1248:
1.6 deraadt 1249: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1250: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1251: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1252: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1253: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1254: <br>
1255: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1256: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1257: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1258: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1259:
1.216 jose 1260: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1261: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1262: Conference.</a></strong>,
1263: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1264: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1265: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1266: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1267: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1268: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1269: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1270: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1271: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1272: <ul>
1273:
1274: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1275: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1276: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1277: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1278: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1279:
1280: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1281: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1282: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1283: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1284: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1285:
1.132 louis 1286: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1287: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1288: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1289: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1290: <p>
1291:
1.132 louis 1292: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1293: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1294: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1295: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1296: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1297: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1298: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1299: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1300:
1.132 louis 1301: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1302: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1303: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1304: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1305: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1306: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1307: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1308: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1309: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1310:
1.17 deraadt 1311: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1312: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1313: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1314: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1315: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1316: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1317: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1318: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1319: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1320:
1.23 niklas 1321: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1322: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1323: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1324: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1325: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1326: efforts.
1327: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1328: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1329: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1330: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1331: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1332: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1333:
1.132 louis 1334: <li><strong>
1335: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1336: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1337: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1338: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1339: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1340: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1341: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1342: <p>
1.23 niklas 1343:
1.31 deraadt 1344: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1345: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1346: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1347: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1348: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1349: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1350: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1351: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1352: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1353: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1354:
1.201 deraadt 1355: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1356: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1357: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1358: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1359: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1360: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1361: <p>
1.236 jose 1362: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1363:
1.132 louis 1364: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1365:
1.236 jose 1366: <ul>
1.216 jose 1367: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1368: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1369: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1370: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1371: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1372: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1373: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1374: <p>
1375:
1.216 jose 1376: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1377: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1378: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1379: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1380: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1381: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1382: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1383: There were many other OpenBSD
1384: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1385: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1386:
1387: <ul>
1388: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1389: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1390: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1391: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1392: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1393: </ul>
1394: <p>
1395:
1396: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1397: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1398: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1399: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1400: <p>
1401:
1402: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1403: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1404: Software '99</a></strong>,
1405: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1406: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1407: <a
1.375 grunk 1408: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1409: <p>
1410:
1411: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1412: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1413: 1999</a></strong>,
1414: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1415: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1416: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1417: <p>
1418:
1.236 jose 1419: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1420: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1421: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1422: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1423: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1424: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1425: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1426: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1427: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1428: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1429: conference in Stockholm.
1430: <p>
1431:
1432: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1433: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1434: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1435: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1436: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1437: coordinated.
1438: <p>
1439:
1440: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1441: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1442: Security</a></strong>,
1443: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1444: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1445: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1446: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1447: significant security roles.
1448: <p>
1449:
1450: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1451: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1452: meeting</a></strong>,
1453: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1454: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1455: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1456: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1457: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1458: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1459: <p>
1.45 jason 1460:
1.132 louis 1461: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1462: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1463: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1464: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1465: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1466: <p>
1.132 louis 1467:
1.236 jose 1468: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1469: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1470: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1471: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1472: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1473: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1474: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1475: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1476: June.)
1.132 louis 1477: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1478: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1479: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1480:
1.375 grunk 1481: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1482: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1483: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1484: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1485: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1486: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1487: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1488: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1489: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1490: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1491: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1492: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1493: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1494: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1495: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1496: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1497: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1498: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1499: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1500: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1501: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1502: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1503: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1504: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1505: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1506: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1507: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1508: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1509:
1.51 deraadt 1510: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1511: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1512: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1513: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1514: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1515: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1516: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1517: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1518: <p>
1519:
1.53 jakob 1520: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1521: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1522: meeting</a></strong>,
1523: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1524: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1525: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1526: <p>
1527:
1.132 louis 1528: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1529: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1530: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1531: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1532: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1533: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1534: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1535: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1536: <p>
1.236 jose 1537: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1538:
1.132 louis 1539: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1540:
1.236 jose 1541: <ul>
1.132 louis 1542: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1543: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1544: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1545: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1546: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1547: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1548: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1549: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1550: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1551: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1552: <p>
1553:
1.236 jose 1554: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1555: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1556: Conference</a></strong>,
1557: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1558: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1559: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1560: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1561: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1562: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1563: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1564: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1565: <br>
1566: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1567: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1568: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1569: <p>
1570:
1.73 deraadt 1571: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1572: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1573: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1574: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1575: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1576: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1577: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1578: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1579: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1580:
1.236 jose 1581: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1582: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1583: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1584: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1585: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1586: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1587: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1588: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1589:
1.80 deraadt 1590: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1591: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1592: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1593: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1594: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1595: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1596: <p>
1597:
1.93 louis 1598: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1599: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1600: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1601: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1602: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1603: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1604: <p>
1605:
1.216 jose 1606: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1607: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1608: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1609: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1610: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1611: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1612: <p>
1613:
1.236 jose 1614: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1615: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1616: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1617: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1618: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1619: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1620: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1621: <br>
1622: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1623: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1624: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1625: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1626: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1627:
1.236 jose 1628: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1629: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1630: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1631: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1632: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1633: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1634: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1635: <p>
1636:
1.236 jose 1637: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1638: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1639: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1640: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1641: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1642: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1643: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1644: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1645: <br>
1646: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1647: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1648: <p>
1649:
1.105 wvdputte 1650: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1651: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1652: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1653: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1654: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1655: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1656: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1657: <br>
1.132 louis 1658: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1659: <p>
1.236 jose 1660: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1661:
1.132 louis 1662: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1663:
1.236 jose 1664: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1665: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1666: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1667: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1668: Niels held a
1669: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1670: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1671: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1672: <p>
1.132 louis 1673:
1.236 jose 1674: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1675: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1676: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1677: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1678: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1679: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1680:
1.236 jose 1681: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1682: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1683: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1684: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1685: <br>
1686: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1687: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1688: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1689: <p>
1690:
1.125 deraadt 1691: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1692: <a
1693: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1694: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1695: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1696: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1697: </ul>
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