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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
1.433 ! deraadt 98: talks, including
! 99: <ul>
! 100: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
! 101: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
! 102: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
! 103: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
! 104: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
! 105: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 106: <p>
107:
108: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
109: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
110: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 111: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 112: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
113: <p>
114:
1.418 djm 115: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
116: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
117: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
118: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
119: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
120: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
121: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 122: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
123: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
124: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 125: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
126: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
127: <p>
128:
1.415 aanriot 129: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
130: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
131: 2005</a></strong>,
132: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
133: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
134: help of Thierry Thomas.
135: <p>
136:
1.420 deraadt 137: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
138: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
139: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
140: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
141: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
142: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
143: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
144: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
145: registration was mandatory.<br>
146: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
147: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
148: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
149: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
150: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
151: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
152: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
153: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
154: mechanism.
155: <p>
156:
1.414 bernd 157: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
158: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
159: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
160: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
161: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
162: <p>
163:
164: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
165: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
166: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
167: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
168: <p>
169:
1.410 wvdputte 170: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
171: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
172: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
173: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
174: <a href=http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/>talk</a> about IT security.
175: <p>
176:
177: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
178: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
179: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
180: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
181: <a href=http://www.gubug.org/>The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
182: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
183: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
184: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
185: installed on your computer.
186: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 187: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 188: <p>
189:
1.404 wvdputte 190: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
191: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 192: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 193: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
194: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 195: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 196: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
197: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
198: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
199: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
200: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
201: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
202: <p>
203:
204: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
205: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
206: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
207: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
208: <p>
209:
1.403 henning 210: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
211: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 212: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 213: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
214: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
215: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
216: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
217: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
218: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
219: <p>
220:
1.388 tom 221: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
222: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
223: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 224: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 225: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
226: <p>
227:
1.385 mickey 228: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 229: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 230: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 231: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
232: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 233: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
234: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 235: and an excellent
236: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
237: If you want to see what happened previously, check
238: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
239: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
240: <p>
241:
1.382 pedro 242: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
243: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.org/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 244: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 245: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
246: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
247: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 248: <p>
249:
1.378 aanriot 250: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
251: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 252: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 253: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
254: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
255: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
256: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 257: <p>
258:
1.375 grunk 259: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
260: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 261: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 262: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
263: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
264: <p>
265:
1.374 grunk 266: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
267: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 268: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 269: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
270: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
271: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
272: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
273: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
274: <p>
275:
1.371 deraadt 276: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
277: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 278: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 279: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
280: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
281: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
282: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
283: He demonstrated how companies can easily
284: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
285: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
286: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
287: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
288: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
289: <p>
290:
1.366 martin 291: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
292: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
293: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
294: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
295: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
296: CDs and shirts.
297: <p>
298:
1.365 mcbride 299: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
300: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
301: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
302: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
303: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
304: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
305: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
306: <br>
307: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
308: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
309: <p>
310:
1.362 reyk 311: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
312: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
313: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
314: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
315: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
316: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
317: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
318: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
319: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
320: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
321: <p>
322:
1.358 mcbride 323: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
324: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
325: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
326: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
327: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
328: <p>
329:
1.357 henning 330: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
331: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
332: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
333: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
334: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
335: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
336: <p>
337:
1.384 tom 338: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 339: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 340: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 341: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
342: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
343: packages work in front of about 30 people.
344: <p>
345:
1.353 henning 346: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
347: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 348: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 349: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
350: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
351: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
352: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 353: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 354: <p>
355:
1.352 henning 356: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
357: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 358: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 359: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
360: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
361: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
362: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
363: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
364: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
365: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
366: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
367: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
368: available if you couldn't make it there.
369: <p>
370:
1.350 marius 371: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
372:
373: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 374: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 375: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
376: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
377: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
378: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
379: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 380: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 381: <p>
382:
1.345 henning 383: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
384: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 385: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 386: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
387: <p>
388:
1.344 martin 389: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
390: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 391: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 392: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
393: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
394: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
395: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
396: (in French) are available.
397: <p>
398:
1.337 deraadt 399: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
400: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 401: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 402: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
403: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 404: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 405: source firewalls.
406: <p>
407:
1.317 henning 408: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
409: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
410: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 411: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 412: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 413: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 414: <p>
415:
1.312 deraadt 416: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
417: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
418: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 419: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
420: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 421: <p>
422:
1.319 saad 423: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
424: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
425: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
426: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
427: <p>
428:
1.310 mickey 429: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 430: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 431: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 432: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 433: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
434: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 435: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 436: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 437: <p>
1.312 deraadt 438:
1.308 deraadt 439: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
440: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
441: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
442: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 443: talks. Topics included
444: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 445: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
446: OpenBGPD, and pf.
447: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 448: <p>
449:
1.304 saad 450: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
451: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
452: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
453: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
454: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 455: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 456: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 457: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
458: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 459: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 460: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
461: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
462: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 463: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 464: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
465: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
466: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
467: <p>
1.301 saad 468: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
469: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
470: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
471: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
472: <p>
473: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
474: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
475: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
476: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
477: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
478: <p>
1.293 saad 479: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
480: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
481: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
482: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
483: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
484: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 485: french translation team.<br>
486: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
487: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
488: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
489: available.<br>
490: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 491: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
492: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
493: <p>
1.296 mcbride 494: </ul>
1.293 saad 495:
1.296 mcbride 496: <h3>2004</h3>
497:
498: <ul>
1.287 henning 499: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
500: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 501: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 502: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
503: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
504: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 505: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 506: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
507: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
508: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
509: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
510: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
511: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 512: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 513: driver.
514: <p>
1.248 deraadt 515:
1.286 kevlo 516: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 517: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 518: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
519: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
520: <p>
521:
1.285 deraadt 522: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
523: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
524: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
525: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
526: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
527: <p>
528:
1.283 saad 529: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
530: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
531: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
532: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
533: meeting of the
534: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
535: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 536: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 537: <p>
538:
1.282 henning 539: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
540: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
541: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
542: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
543: two days, on bgpd
544: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
545: ntpd
546: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
547: and signal handlers
548: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
549: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
550: <p>
551:
1.275 deraadt 552: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
553: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
554: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
555: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
556: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
557: Room B-02 of the
558: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
559: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
560: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
561: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
562: The talk was also given the following day at the
563: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
564: <p>
565:
1.271 henning 566: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
567: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
568: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 569: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
570: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 571: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 572: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 573: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 574: <p>
575:
576: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
577: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
578: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 579: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
580: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 581: <p>
582:
1.276 deraadt 583: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 584: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
585: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
586: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
587: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
588: <p>
589:
590: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 591: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
592: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 593: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 594: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 595: <p>
596:
597: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
598: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
599: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
600: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
601: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
602: <p>
603:
1.268 krw 604: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
605: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
606: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
607: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
608: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
609: <p>
610:
1.375 grunk 611: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 612: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
613: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
614: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
615: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
616: <p>
617:
618: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
619: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 620: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 621: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
622: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
623: <p>
624:
1.265 wvdputte 625: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
626: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 627: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 628: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
629: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
630: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
631: event."
632: <br>
633: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
634: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
635: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
636: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
637: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
638: <br>
639: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
640: <p>
641:
1.262 henning 642: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
643: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 644: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 645: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
646: Henning's slides from his talks about
647: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
648: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
649: are available.
650: <p>
651:
1.261 deraadt 652: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 653: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 654: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
655: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
656: newly extended version of the
657: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
658: For more information, see this
659: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
660: ComputerWorld article</a>.
661: <p>
662:
663:
1.257 saad 664: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
665: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 666: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 667: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
668: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
669: <p>
670:
671: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
672: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 673: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 674: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
675: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
676: <p>
677:
1.256 mickey 678: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 679: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 680: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
681: session.
682: <p>
683:
1.254 xsa 684: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 685: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 686: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
687: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
688: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
689: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
690: a basic talk about pf.
691: <p>
692:
1.248 deraadt 693: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 694: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 695: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
696: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 697: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
698: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
699: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 700: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
701: <p>
702:
1.247 canacar 703: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
704: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
705: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
706: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
707: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
708: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
709: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
710: projects were discussed.<br>
711: You can view the
1.281 canacar 712: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 713: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 714: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 715: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
716: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
717: <p>
718:
1.242 henning 719: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
720: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
721: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 722: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
723: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
724: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
725: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
726: and systrace
1.263 saad 727: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 728: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
729: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
730: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 731: <p>
732:
1.240 espie 733: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
734: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
735: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
736: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
737: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
738: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
739: <p>
740:
741: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
742: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
743: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 744: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 745: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
746: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
747: <p>
748: </ul>
749:
1.188 henning 750: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 751:
752: <ul>
1.232 jose 753: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
754: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
755: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
756: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
757: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 758: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 759: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 760: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 761: <p>
1.232 jose 762:
1.228 jose 763: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 764: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 765: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
766: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 767: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
768: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 769: with OpenBSD PF.
770: <p>
771:
772: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
773: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
774: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
775: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
776: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 777: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
778: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
779: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
780: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 781: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 782: slides in PDF format </a>
783: (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 784: <p>
785:
1.227 jose 786: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
787: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
788: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
789: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
790: <p>
791:
792: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
793: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 794: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 795: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 796: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 797: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
798: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 799: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 800: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 801: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 802: in Internet worm defenses.
803: <p>
804:
1.224 miod 805: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
806: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
807: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
808: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
809: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
810: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
811: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
812: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
813: OpenBSD.
814: <p>
815:
816: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
817: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
818: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
819: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
820: <p>
821:
822: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
823: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
824: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
825: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
826: <p>
827:
1.219 jose 828: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
829: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
830: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 831: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 832: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
833: <p>
834:
1.218 jose 835: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
836: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
837: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 838: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 839: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
840: <p>
841:
1.214 henning 842: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
843: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 844: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 845: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
846: <p>
847:
1.213 jose 848: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
849: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 850: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 851: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 852: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
853: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
854: <p>
855:
1.211 jose 856: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
857: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 858: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 859: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
860: <p>
861:
862: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
863: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 864: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 865: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 866: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
867: <p>
868:
1.209 wvdputte 869: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
870: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 871: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 872: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
873: <p>
1.195 deraadt 874:
1.202 jason 875: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 876: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 877: Conference</a></strong>,
878: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 879: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
880: <ul>
1.216 jose 881: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 882: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 883: Angelos D. Keromytis,
884: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 885: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 886: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
887: </ul>
888: <p>
889:
1.201 deraadt 890: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 891: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 892: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
893: session.
894: <p>
895:
1.216 jose 896: <li><strong>
897: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
898: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 899: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
900: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
901: <p>
902:
1.216 jose 903: <li><strong>
904: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
905: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 906: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 907: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 908: <p>
909:
1.216 jose 910: <li><strong>
911: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
912: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 913: 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 914: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 915: <p>
916:
1.216 jose 917: <li><strong>
918: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
919: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 920: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
921: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 922: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
923: user groups.
924: <p>
925:
1.236 jose 926: <li><strong>
927: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 928: Group</a></strong>,
929: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 930: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
931: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
932: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
933: <p>
934:
1.216 jose 935: <li><strong>
936: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
937: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 938: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 939: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 940: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
941: <p>
942:
1.216 jose 943: <li><strong>
944: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
945: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 946: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 947: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 948: <p>
1.236 jose 949: </ul>
1.185 miod 950:
1.161 millert 951: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 952:
953: <ul>
954: <li><strong>
955: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 956: Congress</a></strong>,
957: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 958: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
959: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 960: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 961: <p>
1.177 jason 962:
1.216 jose 963: <li><strong>
964: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
965: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 966: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 967: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 968: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
969: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 970: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 971: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
972: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 973: <p>
1.178 pb 974:
1.216 jose 975: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 976: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 977: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
978: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 979: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
980: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
981: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
982: <p>
983:
1.216 jose 984: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 985: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
986: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
987: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
988: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
989: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
990: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
991: <p>
992:
993: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 994: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
995: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 996: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
997: Niels Provos presented his
998: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
999: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1000: <p>
1.172 miod 1001:
1.216 jose 1002: <li><strong>
1003: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1004: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1005: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1006: <p>
1007:
1.216 jose 1008: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1009: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1010: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1011: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1012: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1013: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1014: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1015: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1016: <p>
1.168 miod 1017:
1.216 jose 1018: <li><strong>
1019: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1020: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1021: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1022: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1023: are available.
1.161 millert 1024: <p>
1025:
1.216 jose 1026: <li><strong>
1027: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1028: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1029: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1030: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1031: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1032: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1033: <p>
1034:
1.216 jose 1035: <li><strong>
1036: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1037: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1038: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1039: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1040: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1041: <p>
1.236 jose 1042: </ul>
1.164 millert 1043:
1.152 jakob 1044: <h3>2001</h3>
1045:
1.236 jose 1046: <ul>
1.216 jose 1047: <li><strong>
1048: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1049: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1050: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1051: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1052: <p>
1053:
1.216 jose 1054: <li><strong>
1055: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1056: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1057: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1058: <p>
1059:
1.158 deraadt 1060: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1061: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1062: 2001</a></strong>,
1063: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1064: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1065: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1066: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1067: <p>
1068:
1.216 jose 1069: <li><strong>
1070: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1071: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1072: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1073: <p>
1074:
1.201 deraadt 1075: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1076: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1077: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1078: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1079:
1.150 wvdputte 1080: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1081: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1082: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1083: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1084: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1085: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1086: <p>
1.137 aaron 1087:
1088: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1089: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1090: Conference</a></strong>,
1091: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1092: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1093: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1094: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1095: <p>
1096:
1097: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1098: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1099: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1100: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1101: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1102: <p>
1103:
1104: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1105: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1106: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1107: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1108: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1109: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1110: <p>
1111:
1112: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1113: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1114: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1115: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1116: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1117: <p>
1118:
1119: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1120: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1121: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1122: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1123: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1124: security community.
1125: <p>
1126:
1127: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1128: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1129: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1130: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1131: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1132: <p>
1133:
1134: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1135: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1136: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1137: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1138: <p>
1.236 jose 1139: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1140:
1.132 louis 1141: <h3>2000</h3>
1142:
1.236 jose 1143: <ul>
1.132 louis 1144: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1145: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1146: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1147: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1148: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1149: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1150: <p>
1151:
1152: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1153: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1154: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1155: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1156: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1157: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1158: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1159: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1160: <p>
1161:
1162: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1163: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1164: 2000</a></strong>,
1165: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1166: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1167: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1168: <p>
1.4 millert 1169:
1.132 louis 1170: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1171: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1172: Summit</a></strong>,
1173: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1174: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1175: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1176: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1177:
1178: <ul>
1.236 jose 1179: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1180: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1181: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1182: </ul>
1.4 millert 1183: <p>
1.132 louis 1184:
1.7 deraadt 1185: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1186: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1187: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1188: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1189: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1190: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1191: mind (drinks afterwards).
1192: <p>
1193:
1.216 jose 1194: <li><strong>
1195: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1196: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1197: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1198: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1199: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1200:
1.132 louis 1201: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1202: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1203: Revolution</a></strong>,
1204: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1205: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1206: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1207: <p>
1208:
1.132 louis 1209: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1210: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1211: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1212: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1213: <ul>
1.236 jose 1214: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1215: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1216: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1217: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1218: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1219: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1220: <p>
1.132 louis 1221:
1.10 provos 1222: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1223: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1224: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1225: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1226: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1227: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1228: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1229: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1230: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1231: <br>
1232: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1233: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1234: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1235:
1.132 louis 1236: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1237: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1238: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1239: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1240: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1241: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1242: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1243: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1244: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1245: and spoke about
1246: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1247: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1248: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1249: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1250: <p>
1.132 louis 1251:
1.6 deraadt 1252: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1253: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1254: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1255: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1256: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1257: <br>
1258: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1259: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1260: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1261: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1262:
1.216 jose 1263: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1264: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1265: Conference.</a></strong>,
1266: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1267: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1268: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1269: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1270: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1271: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1272: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1273: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1274: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1275: <ul>
1276:
1277: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1278: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1279: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1280: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1281: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1282:
1283: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1284: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1285: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1286: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1287: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1288:
1.132 louis 1289: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1290: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1291: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1292: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1293: <p>
1294:
1.132 louis 1295: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1296: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1297: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1298: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1299: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1300: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1301: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1302: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1303:
1.132 louis 1304: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1305: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1306: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1307: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1308: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1309: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1310: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1311: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1312: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1313:
1.17 deraadt 1314: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1315: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1316: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1317: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1318: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1319: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1320: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1321: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1322: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1323:
1.23 niklas 1324: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1325: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1326: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1327: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1328: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1329: efforts.
1330: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1331: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1332: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1333: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1334: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1335: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1336:
1.132 louis 1337: <li><strong>
1338: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1339: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1340: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1341: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1342: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1343: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1344: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1345: <p>
1.23 niklas 1346:
1.31 deraadt 1347: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1348: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1349: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1350: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1351: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1352: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1353: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1354: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1355: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1356: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1357:
1.201 deraadt 1358: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1359: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1360: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1361: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1362: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1363: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1364: <p>
1.236 jose 1365: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1366:
1.132 louis 1367: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1368:
1.236 jose 1369: <ul>
1.216 jose 1370: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1371: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1372: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1373: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1374: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1375: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1376: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1377: <p>
1378:
1.216 jose 1379: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1380: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1381: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1382: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1383: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1384: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1385: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1386: There were many other OpenBSD
1387: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1388: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1389:
1390: <ul>
1391: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1392: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1393: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1394: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1395: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1396: </ul>
1397: <p>
1398:
1399: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1400: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1401: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1402: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1403: <p>
1404:
1405: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1406: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1407: Software '99</a></strong>,
1408: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1409: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1410: <a
1.375 grunk 1411: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1412: <p>
1413:
1414: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1415: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1416: 1999</a></strong>,
1417: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1418: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1419: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1420: <p>
1421:
1.236 jose 1422: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1423: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1424: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1425: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1426: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1427: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1428: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1429: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1430: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1431: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1432: conference in Stockholm.
1433: <p>
1434:
1435: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1436: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1437: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1438: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1439: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1440: coordinated.
1441: <p>
1442:
1443: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1444: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1445: Security</a></strong>,
1446: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1447: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1448: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1449: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1450: significant security roles.
1451: <p>
1452:
1453: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1454: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1455: meeting</a></strong>,
1456: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1457: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1458: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1459: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1460: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1461: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1462: <p>
1.45 jason 1463:
1.132 louis 1464: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1465: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1466: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1467: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1468: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1469: <p>
1.132 louis 1470:
1.236 jose 1471: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1472: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1473: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1474: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1475: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1476: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1477: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1478: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1479: June.)
1.132 louis 1480: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1481: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1482: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1483:
1.375 grunk 1484: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1485: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1486: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1487: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1488: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1489: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1490: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1491: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1492: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1493: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1494: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1495: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1496: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1497: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1498: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1499: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1500: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1501: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1502: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1503: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1504: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1505: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1506: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1507: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1508: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1509: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1510: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1511: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1512:
1.51 deraadt 1513: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1514: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1515: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1516: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1517: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1518: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1519: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1520: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1521: <p>
1522:
1.53 jakob 1523: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1524: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1525: meeting</a></strong>,
1526: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1527: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1528: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1529: <p>
1530:
1.132 louis 1531: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1532: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1533: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1534: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1535: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1536: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1537: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1538: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1539: <p>
1.236 jose 1540: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1541:
1.132 louis 1542: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1543:
1.236 jose 1544: <ul>
1.132 louis 1545: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1546: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1547: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1548: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1549: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1550: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1551: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1552: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1553: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1554: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1555: <p>
1556:
1.236 jose 1557: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1558: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1559: Conference</a></strong>,
1560: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1561: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1562: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1563: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1564: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1565: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1566: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1567: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1568: <br>
1569: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1570: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1571: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1572: <p>
1573:
1.73 deraadt 1574: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1575: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1576: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1577: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1578: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1579: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1580: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1581: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1582: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1583:
1.236 jose 1584: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1585: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1586: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1587: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1588: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1589: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1590: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1591: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1592:
1.80 deraadt 1593: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1594: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1595: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1596: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1597: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1598: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1599: <p>
1600:
1.93 louis 1601: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1602: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1603: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1604: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1605: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1606: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1607: <p>
1608:
1.216 jose 1609: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1610: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1611: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1612: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1613: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1614: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1615: <p>
1616:
1.236 jose 1617: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1618: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1619: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1620: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1621: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1622: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1623: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1624: <br>
1625: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1626: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1627: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1628: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1629: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1630:
1.236 jose 1631: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1632: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1633: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1634: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1635: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1636: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1637: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1638: <p>
1639:
1.236 jose 1640: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1641: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1642: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1643: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1644: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1645: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1646: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1647: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1648: <br>
1649: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1650: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1651: <p>
1652:
1.105 wvdputte 1653: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1654: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1655: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1656: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1657: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1658: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1659: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1660: <br>
1.132 louis 1661: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1662: <p>
1.236 jose 1663: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1664:
1.132 louis 1665: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1666:
1.236 jose 1667: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1668: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1669: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1670: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1671: Niels held a
1672: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1673: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1674: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1675: <p>
1.132 louis 1676:
1.236 jose 1677: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1678: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1679: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1680: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1681: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1682: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1683:
1.236 jose 1684: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1685: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1686: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1687: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1688: <br>
1689: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1690: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1691: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1692: <p>
1693:
1.125 deraadt 1694: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1695: <a
1696: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1697: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1698: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1699: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1700: </ul>
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