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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
1.432 ! espie 98: talks, including
! 99: <a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie</a>,
1.430 henning 100: <a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer</a>,
1.432 ! espie 101: <a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins</a>,
1.428 pvalchev 102: <a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev</a>,
103: and <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt</a>.
1.424 mbalmer 104: <p>
105:
106: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
107: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
108: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 109: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 110: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
111: <p>
112:
1.418 djm 113: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
114: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
115: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
116: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
117: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
118: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
119: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 120: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
121: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
122: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 123: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
124: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
125: <p>
126:
1.415 aanriot 127: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
128: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
129: 2005</a></strong>,
130: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
131: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
132: help of Thierry Thomas.
133: <p>
134:
1.420 deraadt 135: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
136: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
137: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
138: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
139: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
140: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
141: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
142: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
143: registration was mandatory.<br>
144: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
145: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
146: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
147: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
148: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
149: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
150: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
151: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
152: mechanism.
153: <p>
154:
1.414 bernd 155: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
156: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
157: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
158: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
159: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
160: <p>
161:
162: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
163: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
164: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
165: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
166: <p>
167:
1.410 wvdputte 168: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
169: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
170: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
171: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
172: <a href=http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/>talk</a> about IT security.
173: <p>
174:
175: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
176: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
177: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
178: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
179: <a href=http://www.gubug.org/>The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
180: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
181: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
182: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
183: installed on your computer.
184: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 185: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 186: <p>
187:
1.404 wvdputte 188: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
189: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 190: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 191: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
192: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 193: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 194: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
195: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
196: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
197: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
198: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
199: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
200: <p>
201:
202: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
203: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
204: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
205: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
206: <p>
207:
1.403 henning 208: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
209: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 210: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 211: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
212: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
213: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
214: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
215: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
216: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
217: <p>
218:
1.388 tom 219: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
220: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
221: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 222: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 223: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
224: <p>
225:
1.385 mickey 226: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 227: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 228: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 229: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
230: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 231: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
232: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 233: and an excellent
234: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
235: If you want to see what happened previously, check
236: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
237: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
238: <p>
239:
1.382 pedro 240: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
241: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.org/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 242: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 243: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
244: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
245: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 246: <p>
247:
1.378 aanriot 248: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
249: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 250: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 251: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
252: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
253: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
254: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 255: <p>
256:
1.375 grunk 257: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
258: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 259: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 260: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
261: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
262: <p>
263:
1.374 grunk 264: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
265: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 266: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 267: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
268: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
269: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
270: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
271: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
272: <p>
273:
1.371 deraadt 274: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
275: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 276: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 277: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
278: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
279: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
280: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
281: He demonstrated how companies can easily
282: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
283: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
284: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
285: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
286: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
287: <p>
288:
1.366 martin 289: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
290: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
291: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
292: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
293: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
294: CDs and shirts.
295: <p>
296:
1.365 mcbride 297: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
298: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
299: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
300: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
301: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
302: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
303: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
304: <br>
305: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
306: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
307: <p>
308:
1.362 reyk 309: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
310: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
311: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
312: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
313: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
314: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
315: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
316: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
317: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
318: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
319: <p>
320:
1.358 mcbride 321: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
322: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
323: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
324: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
325: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
326: <p>
327:
1.357 henning 328: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
329: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
330: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
331: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
332: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
333: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
334: <p>
335:
1.384 tom 336: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 337: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 338: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 339: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
340: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
341: packages work in front of about 30 people.
342: <p>
343:
1.353 henning 344: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
345: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 346: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 347: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
348: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
349: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
350: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 351: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 352: <p>
353:
1.352 henning 354: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
355: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 356: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 357: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
358: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
359: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
360: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
361: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
362: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
363: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
364: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
365: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
366: available if you couldn't make it there.
367: <p>
368:
1.350 marius 369: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
370:
371: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 372: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 373: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
374: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
375: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
376: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
377: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 378: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 379: <p>
380:
1.345 henning 381: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
382: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 383: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 384: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
385: <p>
386:
1.344 martin 387: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
388: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 389: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 390: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
391: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
392: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
393: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
394: (in French) are available.
395: <p>
396:
1.337 deraadt 397: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
398: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 399: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 400: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
401: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 402: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 403: source firewalls.
404: <p>
405:
1.317 henning 406: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
407: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
408: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 409: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 410: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 411: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 412: <p>
413:
1.312 deraadt 414: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
415: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
416: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 417: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
418: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 419: <p>
420:
1.319 saad 421: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
422: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
423: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
424: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
425: <p>
426:
1.310 mickey 427: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 428: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 429: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 430: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 431: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
432: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 433: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 434: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 435: <p>
1.312 deraadt 436:
1.308 deraadt 437: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
438: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
439: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
440: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 441: talks. Topics included
442: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 443: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
444: OpenBGPD, and pf.
445: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 446: <p>
447:
1.304 saad 448: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
449: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
450: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
451: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
452: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 453: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 454: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 455: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
456: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 457: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 458: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
459: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
460: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 461: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 462: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
463: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
464: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
465: <p>
1.301 saad 466: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
467: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
468: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
469: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
470: <p>
471: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
472: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
473: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
474: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
475: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
476: <p>
1.293 saad 477: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
478: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
479: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
480: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
481: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
482: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 483: french translation team.<br>
484: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
485: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
486: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
487: available.<br>
488: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 489: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
490: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
491: <p>
1.296 mcbride 492: </ul>
1.293 saad 493:
1.296 mcbride 494: <h3>2004</h3>
495:
496: <ul>
1.287 henning 497: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
498: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 499: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 500: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
501: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
502: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 503: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 504: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
505: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
506: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
507: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
508: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
509: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 510: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 511: driver.
512: <p>
1.248 deraadt 513:
1.286 kevlo 514: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 515: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 516: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
517: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
518: <p>
519:
1.285 deraadt 520: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
521: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
522: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
523: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
524: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
525: <p>
526:
1.283 saad 527: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
528: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
529: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
530: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
531: meeting of the
532: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
533: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 534: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 535: <p>
536:
1.282 henning 537: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
538: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
539: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
540: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
541: two days, on bgpd
542: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
543: ntpd
544: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
545: and signal handlers
546: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
547: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
548: <p>
549:
1.275 deraadt 550: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
551: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
552: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
553: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
554: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
555: Room B-02 of the
556: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
557: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
558: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
559: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
560: The talk was also given the following day at the
561: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
562: <p>
563:
1.271 henning 564: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
565: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
566: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 567: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
568: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 569: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 570: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 571: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 572: <p>
573:
574: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
575: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
576: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 577: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
578: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 579: <p>
580:
1.276 deraadt 581: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 582: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
583: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
584: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
585: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
586: <p>
587:
588: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 589: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
590: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 591: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 592: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 593: <p>
594:
595: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
596: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
597: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
598: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
599: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
600: <p>
601:
1.268 krw 602: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
603: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
604: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
605: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
606: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
607: <p>
608:
1.375 grunk 609: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 610: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
611: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
612: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
613: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
614: <p>
615:
616: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
617: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 618: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 619: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
620: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
621: <p>
622:
1.265 wvdputte 623: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
624: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 625: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 626: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
627: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
628: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
629: event."
630: <br>
631: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
632: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
633: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
634: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
635: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
636: <br>
637: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
638: <p>
639:
1.262 henning 640: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
641: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 642: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 643: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
644: Henning's slides from his talks about
645: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
646: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
647: are available.
648: <p>
649:
1.261 deraadt 650: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 651: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 652: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
653: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
654: newly extended version of the
655: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
656: For more information, see this
657: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
658: ComputerWorld article</a>.
659: <p>
660:
661:
1.257 saad 662: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
663: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 664: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 665: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
666: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
667: <p>
668:
669: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
670: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 671: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 672: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
673: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
674: <p>
675:
1.256 mickey 676: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 677: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 678: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
679: session.
680: <p>
681:
1.254 xsa 682: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 683: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 684: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
685: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
686: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
687: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
688: a basic talk about pf.
689: <p>
690:
1.248 deraadt 691: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 692: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 693: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
694: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 695: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
696: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
697: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 698: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
699: <p>
700:
1.247 canacar 701: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
702: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
703: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
704: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
705: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
706: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
707: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
708: projects were discussed.<br>
709: You can view the
1.281 canacar 710: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 711: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 712: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 713: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
714: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
715: <p>
716:
1.242 henning 717: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
718: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
719: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 720: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
721: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
722: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
723: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
724: and systrace
1.263 saad 725: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 726: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
727: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
728: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 729: <p>
730:
1.240 espie 731: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
732: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
733: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
734: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
735: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
736: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
737: <p>
738:
739: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
740: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
741: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 742: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 743: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
744: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
745: <p>
746: </ul>
747:
1.188 henning 748: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 749:
750: <ul>
1.232 jose 751: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
752: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
753: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
754: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
755: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 756: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 757: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 758: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 759: <p>
1.232 jose 760:
1.228 jose 761: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 762: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 763: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
764: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 765: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
766: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 767: with OpenBSD PF.
768: <p>
769:
770: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
771: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
772: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
773: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
774: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 775: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
776: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
777: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
778: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 779: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 780: slides in PDF format </a>
781: (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 782: <p>
783:
1.227 jose 784: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
785: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
786: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
787: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
788: <p>
789:
790: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
791: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 792: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 793: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 794: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 795: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
796: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 797: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 798: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 799: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 800: in Internet worm defenses.
801: <p>
802:
1.224 miod 803: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
804: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
805: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
806: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
807: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
808: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
809: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
810: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
811: OpenBSD.
812: <p>
813:
814: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
815: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
816: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
817: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
818: <p>
819:
820: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
821: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
822: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
823: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
824: <p>
825:
1.219 jose 826: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
827: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
828: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 829: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 830: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
831: <p>
832:
1.218 jose 833: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
834: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
835: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 836: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 837: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
838: <p>
839:
1.214 henning 840: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
841: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 842: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 843: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
844: <p>
845:
1.213 jose 846: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
847: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 848: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 849: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 850: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
851: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
852: <p>
853:
1.211 jose 854: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
855: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 856: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 857: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
858: <p>
859:
860: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
861: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 862: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 863: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 864: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
865: <p>
866:
1.209 wvdputte 867: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
868: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 869: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 870: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
871: <p>
1.195 deraadt 872:
1.202 jason 873: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 874: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 875: Conference</a></strong>,
876: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 877: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
878: <ul>
1.216 jose 879: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 880: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 881: Angelos D. Keromytis,
882: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 883: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 884: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
885: </ul>
886: <p>
887:
1.201 deraadt 888: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 889: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 890: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
891: session.
892: <p>
893:
1.216 jose 894: <li><strong>
895: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
896: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 897: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
898: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
899: <p>
900:
1.216 jose 901: <li><strong>
902: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
903: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 904: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 905: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 906: <p>
907:
1.216 jose 908: <li><strong>
909: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
910: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 911: 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 912: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 913: <p>
914:
1.216 jose 915: <li><strong>
916: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
917: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 918: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
919: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 920: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
921: user groups.
922: <p>
923:
1.236 jose 924: <li><strong>
925: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 926: Group</a></strong>,
927: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 928: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
929: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
930: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
931: <p>
932:
1.216 jose 933: <li><strong>
934: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
935: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 936: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 937: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 938: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
939: <p>
940:
1.216 jose 941: <li><strong>
942: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
943: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 944: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 945: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 946: <p>
1.236 jose 947: </ul>
1.185 miod 948:
1.161 millert 949: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 950:
951: <ul>
952: <li><strong>
953: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 954: Congress</a></strong>,
955: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 956: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
957: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 958: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 959: <p>
1.177 jason 960:
1.216 jose 961: <li><strong>
962: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
963: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 964: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 965: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 966: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
967: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 968: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 969: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
970: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 971: <p>
1.178 pb 972:
1.216 jose 973: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 974: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 975: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
976: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 977: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
978: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
979: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
980: <p>
981:
1.216 jose 982: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 983: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
984: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
985: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
986: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
987: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
988: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
989: <p>
990:
991: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 992: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
993: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 994: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
995: Niels Provos presented his
996: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
997: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 998: <p>
1.172 miod 999:
1.216 jose 1000: <li><strong>
1001: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1002: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1003: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1004: <p>
1005:
1.216 jose 1006: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1007: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1008: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1009: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1010: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1011: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1012: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1013: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1014: <p>
1.168 miod 1015:
1.216 jose 1016: <li><strong>
1017: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1018: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1019: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1020: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1021: are available.
1.161 millert 1022: <p>
1023:
1.216 jose 1024: <li><strong>
1025: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1026: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1027: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1028: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1029: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1030: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1031: <p>
1032:
1.216 jose 1033: <li><strong>
1034: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1035: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1036: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1037: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1038: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1039: <p>
1.236 jose 1040: </ul>
1.164 millert 1041:
1.152 jakob 1042: <h3>2001</h3>
1043:
1.236 jose 1044: <ul>
1.216 jose 1045: <li><strong>
1046: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1047: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1048: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1049: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1050: <p>
1051:
1.216 jose 1052: <li><strong>
1053: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1054: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1055: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1056: <p>
1057:
1.158 deraadt 1058: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1059: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1060: 2001</a></strong>,
1061: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1062: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1063: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1064: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1065: <p>
1066:
1.216 jose 1067: <li><strong>
1068: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1069: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1070: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1071: <p>
1072:
1.201 deraadt 1073: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1074: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1075: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1076: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1077:
1.150 wvdputte 1078: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1079: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1080: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1081: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1082: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1083: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1084: <p>
1.137 aaron 1085:
1086: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1087: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1088: Conference</a></strong>,
1089: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1090: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1091: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1092: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1093: <p>
1094:
1095: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1096: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1097: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1098: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1099: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1100: <p>
1101:
1102: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1103: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1104: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1105: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1106: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1107: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1108: <p>
1109:
1110: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1111: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1112: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1113: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1114: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1115: <p>
1116:
1117: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1118: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1119: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1120: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1121: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1122: security community.
1123: <p>
1124:
1125: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1126: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1127: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1128: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1129: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1130: <p>
1131:
1132: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1133: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1134: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1135: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1136: <p>
1.236 jose 1137: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1138:
1.132 louis 1139: <h3>2000</h3>
1140:
1.236 jose 1141: <ul>
1.132 louis 1142: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1143: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1144: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1145: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1146: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1147: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1148: <p>
1149:
1150: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1151: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1152: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1153: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1154: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1155: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1156: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1157: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1158: <p>
1159:
1160: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1161: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1162: 2000</a></strong>,
1163: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1164: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1165: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1166: <p>
1.4 millert 1167:
1.132 louis 1168: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1169: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1170: Summit</a></strong>,
1171: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1172: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1173: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1174: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1175:
1176: <ul>
1.236 jose 1177: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1178: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1179: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1180: </ul>
1.4 millert 1181: <p>
1.132 louis 1182:
1.7 deraadt 1183: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1184: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1185: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1186: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1187: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1188: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1189: mind (drinks afterwards).
1190: <p>
1191:
1.216 jose 1192: <li><strong>
1193: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1194: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1195: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1196: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1197: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1198:
1.132 louis 1199: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1200: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1201: Revolution</a></strong>,
1202: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1203: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1204: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1205: <p>
1206:
1.132 louis 1207: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1208: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1209: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1210: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1211: <ul>
1.236 jose 1212: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1213: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1214: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1215: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1216: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1217: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1218: <p>
1.132 louis 1219:
1.10 provos 1220: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1221: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1222: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1223: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1224: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1225: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1226: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1227: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1228: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1229: <br>
1230: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1231: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1232: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1233:
1.132 louis 1234: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1235: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1236: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1237: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1238: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1239: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1240: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1241: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1242: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1243: and spoke about
1244: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1245: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1246: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1247: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1248: <p>
1.132 louis 1249:
1.6 deraadt 1250: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1251: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1252: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1253: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1254: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1255: <br>
1256: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1257: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1258: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1259: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1260:
1.216 jose 1261: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1262: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1263: Conference.</a></strong>,
1264: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1265: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1266: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1267: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1268: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1269: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1270: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1271: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1272: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1273: <ul>
1274:
1275: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1276: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1277: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1278: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1279: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1280:
1281: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1282: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1283: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1284: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1285: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1286:
1.132 louis 1287: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1288: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1289: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1290: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1291: <p>
1292:
1.132 louis 1293: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1294: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1295: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1296: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1297: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1298: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1299: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1300: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1301:
1.132 louis 1302: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1303: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1304: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1305: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1306: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1307: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1308: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1309: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1310: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1311:
1.17 deraadt 1312: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1313: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1314: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1315: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1316: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1317: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1318: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1319: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1320: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1321:
1.23 niklas 1322: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1323: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1324: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1325: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1326: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1327: efforts.
1328: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1329: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1330: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1331: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1332: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1333: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1334:
1.132 louis 1335: <li><strong>
1336: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1337: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1338: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1339: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1340: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1341: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1342: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1343: <p>
1.23 niklas 1344:
1.31 deraadt 1345: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1346: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1347: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1348: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1349: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1350: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1351: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1352: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1353: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1354: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1355:
1.201 deraadt 1356: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1357: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1358: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1359: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1360: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1361: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1362: <p>
1.236 jose 1363: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1364:
1.132 louis 1365: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1366:
1.236 jose 1367: <ul>
1.216 jose 1368: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1369: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1370: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1371: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1372: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1373: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1374: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1375: <p>
1376:
1.216 jose 1377: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1378: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1379: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1380: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1381: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1382: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1383: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1384: There were many other OpenBSD
1385: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1386: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1387:
1388: <ul>
1389: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1390: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1391: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1392: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1393: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1394: </ul>
1395: <p>
1396:
1397: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1398: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1399: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1400: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1401: <p>
1402:
1403: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1404: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1405: Software '99</a></strong>,
1406: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1407: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1408: <a
1.375 grunk 1409: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1410: <p>
1411:
1412: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1413: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1414: 1999</a></strong>,
1415: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1416: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1417: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1418: <p>
1419:
1.236 jose 1420: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1421: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1422: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1423: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1424: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1425: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1426: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1427: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1428: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1429: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1430: conference in Stockholm.
1431: <p>
1432:
1433: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1434: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1435: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1436: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1437: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1438: coordinated.
1439: <p>
1440:
1441: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1442: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1443: Security</a></strong>,
1444: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1445: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1446: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1447: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1448: significant security roles.
1449: <p>
1450:
1451: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1452: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1453: meeting</a></strong>,
1454: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1455: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1456: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1457: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1458: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1459: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1460: <p>
1.45 jason 1461:
1.132 louis 1462: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1463: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1464: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1465: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1466: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1467: <p>
1.132 louis 1468:
1.236 jose 1469: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1470: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1471: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1472: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1473: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1474: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1475: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1476: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1477: June.)
1.132 louis 1478: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1479: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1480: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1481:
1.375 grunk 1482: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1483: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1484: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1485: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1486: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1487: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1488: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1489: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1490: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1491: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1492: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1493: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1494: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1495: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1496: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1497: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1498: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1499: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1500: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1501: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1502: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1503: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1504: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1505: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1506: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1507: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1508: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1509: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1510:
1.51 deraadt 1511: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1512: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1513: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1514: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1515: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1516: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1517: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1518: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1519: <p>
1520:
1.53 jakob 1521: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1522: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1523: meeting</a></strong>,
1524: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1525: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1526: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1527: <p>
1528:
1.132 louis 1529: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1530: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1531: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1532: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1533: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1534: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1535: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1536: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1537: <p>
1.236 jose 1538: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1539:
1.132 louis 1540: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1541:
1.236 jose 1542: <ul>
1.132 louis 1543: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1544: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1545: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1546: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1547: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1548: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1549: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1550: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1551: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1552: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1553: <p>
1554:
1.236 jose 1555: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1556: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1557: Conference</a></strong>,
1558: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1559: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1560: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1561: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1562: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1563: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1564: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1565: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1566: <br>
1567: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1568: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1569: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1570: <p>
1571:
1.73 deraadt 1572: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1573: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1574: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1575: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1576: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1577: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1578: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1579: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1580: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1581:
1.236 jose 1582: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1583: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1584: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1585: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1586: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1587: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1588: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1589: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1590:
1.80 deraadt 1591: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1592: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1593: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1594: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1595: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1596: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1597: <p>
1598:
1.93 louis 1599: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1600: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1601: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1602: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1603: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1604: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1605: <p>
1606:
1.216 jose 1607: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1608: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1609: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1610: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1611: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1612: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1613: <p>
1614:
1.236 jose 1615: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1616: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1617: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1618: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1619: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1620: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1621: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1622: <br>
1623: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1624: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1625: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1626: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1627: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1628:
1.236 jose 1629: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1630: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1631: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1632: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1633: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1634: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1635: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1636: <p>
1637:
1.236 jose 1638: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1639: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1640: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1641: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1642: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1643: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1644: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1645: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1646: <br>
1647: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1648: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1649: <p>
1650:
1.105 wvdputte 1651: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1652: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1653: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1654: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1655: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1656: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1657: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1658: <br>
1.132 louis 1659: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1660: <p>
1.236 jose 1661: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1662:
1.132 louis 1663: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1664:
1.236 jose 1665: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1666: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1667: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1668: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1669: Niels held a
1670: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1671: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1672: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1673: <p>
1.132 louis 1674:
1.236 jose 1675: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1676: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1677: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1678: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1679: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1680: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1681:
1.236 jose 1682: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1683: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1684: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1685: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1686: <br>
1687: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1688: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1689: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1690: <p>
1691:
1.125 deraadt 1692: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1693: <a
1694: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1695: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1696: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1697: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1698: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1699:
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