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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:
1.367 wvdputte 31:
1.387 tom 32: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
1.396 wvdputte 33: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
34: Berlin</a></strong>,
1.386 wvdputte 35: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
36: Join the many OpenBSD developers and users for a Xmas break in a unique setting
37: <p>
38:
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1.152 jakob 57: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 59: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 60:
61: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 62:
1.435 matthieu 63: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
64: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
65: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
66: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
67: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 68: event.
1.444 ! grunk 69: The program included a
! 70: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 71: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
72: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 73: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
74: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 75: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 76: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 77: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 78: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 79: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 80: <p>
1.435 matthieu 81: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
82: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
83: <p>
84:
1.434 bernd 85: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
86: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
87: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
88: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
89: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
90: <p>
91:
1.441 niallo 92: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
93: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
94: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
95: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
96: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
97: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
98: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
99: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
100: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
101: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
102: scripts.
103: <p>
104:
1.424 mbalmer 105: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
106: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
107: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 108: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
109: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
110: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 111: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 112: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 113: talks, including
114: <ul>
115: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
116: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
117: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
118: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
119: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
120: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 121: <p>
122:
123: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
124: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
125: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 126: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 127: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
128: <p>
129:
1.418 djm 130: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
131: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
132: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
133: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
134: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
135: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
136: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 137: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
138: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
139: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 140: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
141: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
142: <p>
143:
1.415 aanriot 144: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
145: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
146: 2005</a></strong>,
147: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
148: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
149: help of Thierry Thomas.
150: <p>
151:
1.420 deraadt 152: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
153: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
154: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
155: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
156: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
157: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
158: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
159: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
160: registration was mandatory.<br>
161: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 ! grunk 162: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 163: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
164: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
165: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 ! grunk 166: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 167: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
168: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
169: mechanism.
170: <p>
171:
1.414 bernd 172: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
173: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
174: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
175: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
176: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
177: <p>
178:
179: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
180: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
181: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
182: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
183: <p>
184:
1.410 wvdputte 185: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
186: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
187: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 ! grunk 188: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
! 189: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 190: <p>
191:
192: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
193: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
194: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
195: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 ! grunk 196: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 197: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
198: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
199: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
200: installed on your computer.
201: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 202: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 203: <p>
204:
1.404 wvdputte 205: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
206: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 207: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 208: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
209: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 210: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 211: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
212: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
213: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
214: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
215: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
216: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
217: <p>
218:
219: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
220: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
221: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
222: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
223: <p>
224:
1.403 henning 225: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
226: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 227: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 228: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
229: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
230: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
231: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
232: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
233: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
234: <p>
235:
1.388 tom 236: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
237: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
238: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 239: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 240: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
241: <p>
242:
1.385 mickey 243: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 244: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 245: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 246: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
247: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 248: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
249: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 250: and an excellent
251: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
252: If you want to see what happened previously, check
253: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
254: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
255: <p>
256:
1.382 pedro 257: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
258: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.org/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 259: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 260: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
261: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
262: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 263: <p>
264:
1.378 aanriot 265: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
266: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 267: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 268: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
269: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
270: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
271: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 272: <p>
273:
1.375 grunk 274: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
275: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 276: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 277: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
278: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
279: <p>
280:
1.374 grunk 281: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
282: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 283: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 284: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
285: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
286: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
287: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
288: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
289: <p>
290:
1.371 deraadt 291: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
292: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 293: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 294: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
295: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
296: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
297: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
298: He demonstrated how companies can easily
299: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
300: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
301: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
302: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
303: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
304: <p>
305:
1.366 martin 306: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
307: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
308: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
309: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
310: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
311: CDs and shirts.
312: <p>
313:
1.365 mcbride 314: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
315: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
316: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
317: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
318: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
319: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
320: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
321: <br>
322: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
323: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
324: <p>
325:
1.362 reyk 326: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
327: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
328: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
329: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
330: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
331: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
332: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
333: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
334: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
335: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
336: <p>
337:
1.358 mcbride 338: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
339: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
340: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
341: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
342: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
343: <p>
344:
1.357 henning 345: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
346: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
347: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
348: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
349: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
350: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
351: <p>
352:
1.384 tom 353: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 354: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 355: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 356: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
357: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
358: packages work in front of about 30 people.
359: <p>
360:
1.353 henning 361: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
362: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 363: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 364: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
365: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
366: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
367: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 368: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 369: <p>
370:
1.352 henning 371: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
372: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 373: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 374: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
375: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
376: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
377: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
378: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
379: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
380: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
381: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
382: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
383: available if you couldn't make it there.
384: <p>
385:
1.350 marius 386: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
387:
388: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 389: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 390: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
391: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
392: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
393: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
394: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 395: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 396: <p>
397:
1.345 henning 398: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
399: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 400: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 401: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
402: <p>
403:
1.344 martin 404: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
405: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 406: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 407: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
408: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
409: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
410: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
411: (in French) are available.
412: <p>
413:
1.337 deraadt 414: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
415: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 416: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 417: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
418: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 419: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 420: source firewalls.
421: <p>
422:
1.317 henning 423: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
424: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
425: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 426: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 427: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 428: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 429: <p>
430:
1.312 deraadt 431: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
432: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
433: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 434: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
435: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 436: <p>
437:
1.319 saad 438: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
439: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
440: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
441: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
442: <p>
443:
1.310 mickey 444: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 445: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 446: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 447: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 448: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
449: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 450: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 451: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 452: <p>
1.312 deraadt 453:
1.308 deraadt 454: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
455: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
456: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
457: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 458: talks. Topics included
459: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 460: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
461: OpenBGPD, and pf.
462: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 463: <p>
464:
1.304 saad 465: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
466: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
467: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
468: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
469: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 470: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 471: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 472: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
473: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 474: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 475: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
476: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
477: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 478: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 479: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
480: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
481: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
482: <p>
1.301 saad 483: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
484: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
485: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
486: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
487: <p>
488: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
489: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
490: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
491: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
492: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
493: <p>
1.293 saad 494: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
495: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
496: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
497: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
498: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
499: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 500: french translation team.<br>
501: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
502: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
503: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
504: available.<br>
505: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 506: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
507: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
508: <p>
1.296 mcbride 509: </ul>
1.293 saad 510:
1.296 mcbride 511: <h3>2004</h3>
512:
513: <ul>
1.287 henning 514: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
515: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 516: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 517: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
518: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
519: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 520: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 521: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
522: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
523: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
524: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
525: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
526: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 527: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 528: driver.
529: <p>
1.248 deraadt 530:
1.286 kevlo 531: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 532: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 533: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
534: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
535: <p>
536:
1.285 deraadt 537: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
538: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
539: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
540: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
541: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
542: <p>
543:
1.283 saad 544: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
545: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
546: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
547: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
548: meeting of the
549: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
550: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 551: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 552: <p>
553:
1.282 henning 554: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
555: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
556: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
557: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
558: two days, on bgpd
559: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
560: ntpd
561: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
562: and signal handlers
563: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
564: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
565: <p>
566:
1.275 deraadt 567: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
568: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
569: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
570: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
571: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
572: Room B-02 of the
573: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
574: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
575: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
576: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
577: The talk was also given the following day at the
578: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
579: <p>
580:
1.271 henning 581: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
582: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
583: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 584: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
585: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 586: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 587: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 588: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 589: <p>
590:
591: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
592: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
593: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 594: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
595: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 596: <p>
597:
1.276 deraadt 598: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 599: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
600: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
601: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
602: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
603: <p>
604:
605: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 606: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
607: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 608: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 609: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 610: <p>
611:
612: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
613: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
614: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
615: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
616: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
617: <p>
618:
1.268 krw 619: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
620: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
621: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
622: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
623: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
624: <p>
625:
1.375 grunk 626: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 627: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
628: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
629: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
630: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
631: <p>
632:
633: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
634: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 635: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 636: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
637: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
638: <p>
639:
1.265 wvdputte 640: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
641: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 642: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 643: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
644: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
645: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
646: event."
647: <br>
648: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
649: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
650: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
651: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
652: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
653: <br>
654: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
655: <p>
656:
1.262 henning 657: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
658: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 659: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 660: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
661: Henning's slides from his talks about
662: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
663: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
664: are available.
665: <p>
666:
1.261 deraadt 667: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 668: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 669: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
670: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
671: newly extended version of the
672: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
673: For more information, see this
674: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
675: ComputerWorld article</a>.
676: <p>
677:
678:
1.257 saad 679: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
680: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 681: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 682: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
683: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
684: <p>
685:
686: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
687: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 688: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 689: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
690: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
691: <p>
692:
1.256 mickey 693: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 694: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 695: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
696: session.
697: <p>
698:
1.254 xsa 699: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 700: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 701: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
702: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
703: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
704: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
705: a basic talk about pf.
706: <p>
707:
1.248 deraadt 708: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 709: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 710: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
711: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 712: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
713: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
714: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 715: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
716: <p>
717:
1.247 canacar 718: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
719: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
720: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
721: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
722: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
723: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
724: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
725: projects were discussed.<br>
726: You can view the
1.281 canacar 727: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 728: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 729: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 730: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
731: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
732: <p>
733:
1.242 henning 734: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
735: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
736: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 737: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
738: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
739: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
740: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
741: and systrace
1.263 saad 742: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 743: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
744: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
745: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 746: <p>
747:
1.240 espie 748: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
749: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
750: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
751: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
752: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
753: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
754: <p>
755:
756: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
757: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
758: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 759: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 760: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
761: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
762: <p>
763: </ul>
764:
1.188 henning 765: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 766:
767: <ul>
1.232 jose 768: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
769: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
770: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
771: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
772: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 773: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 774: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 775: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 776: <p>
1.232 jose 777:
1.228 jose 778: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 779: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 780: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
781: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 782: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
783: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 784: with OpenBSD PF.
785: <p>
786:
787: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
788: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
789: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
790: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
791: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 792: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
793: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
794: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
795: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 796: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 797: slides in PDF format </a>
798: (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 799: <p>
800:
1.227 jose 801: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
802: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
803: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
804: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
805: <p>
806:
807: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
808: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 809: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 810: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 811: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 812: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
813: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 814: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 815: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 816: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 817: in Internet worm defenses.
818: <p>
819:
1.224 miod 820: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
821: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
822: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
823: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
824: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
825: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
826: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
827: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
828: OpenBSD.
829: <p>
830:
831: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
832: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
833: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
834: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
835: <p>
836:
837: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
838: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
839: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
840: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
841: <p>
842:
1.219 jose 843: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
844: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
845: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 846: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 847: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
848: <p>
849:
1.218 jose 850: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
851: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
852: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 853: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 854: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
855: <p>
856:
1.214 henning 857: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
858: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 859: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 860: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
861: <p>
862:
1.213 jose 863: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
864: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 865: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 866: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 867: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
868: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
869: <p>
870:
1.211 jose 871: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
872: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 873: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 874: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
875: <p>
876:
877: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
878: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 879: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 880: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 881: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
882: <p>
883:
1.209 wvdputte 884: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
885: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 886: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 887: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
888: <p>
1.195 deraadt 889:
1.202 jason 890: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 891: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 892: Conference</a></strong>,
893: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 894: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
895: <ul>
1.216 jose 896: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 897: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 898: Angelos D. Keromytis,
899: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 900: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 901: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
902: </ul>
903: <p>
904:
1.201 deraadt 905: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 906: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 907: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
908: session.
909: <p>
910:
1.216 jose 911: <li><strong>
912: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
913: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 914: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
915: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
916: <p>
917:
1.216 jose 918: <li><strong>
919: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
920: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 921: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 922: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 923: <p>
924:
1.216 jose 925: <li><strong>
926: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
927: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 928: 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 929: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 930: <p>
931:
1.216 jose 932: <li><strong>
933: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
934: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 935: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
936: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 937: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
938: user groups.
939: <p>
940:
1.236 jose 941: <li><strong>
942: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 943: Group</a></strong>,
944: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 945: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
946: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
947: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
948: <p>
949:
1.216 jose 950: <li><strong>
951: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
952: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 953: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 954: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 955: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
956: <p>
957:
1.216 jose 958: <li><strong>
959: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
960: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 961: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 962: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 963: <p>
1.236 jose 964: </ul>
1.185 miod 965:
1.161 millert 966: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 967:
968: <ul>
969: <li><strong>
970: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 971: Congress</a></strong>,
972: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 973: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
974: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 975: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 976: <p>
1.177 jason 977:
1.216 jose 978: <li><strong>
979: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
980: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 981: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 982: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 983: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
984: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 985: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 986: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
987: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 988: <p>
1.178 pb 989:
1.216 jose 990: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 991: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 992: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
993: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 994: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
995: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
996: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
997: <p>
998:
1.216 jose 999: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1000: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1001: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1002: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1003: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1004: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1005: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1006: <p>
1007:
1008: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1009: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1010: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1011: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1012: Niels Provos presented his
1013: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1014: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1015: <p>
1.172 miod 1016:
1.216 jose 1017: <li><strong>
1018: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1019: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1020: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1021: <p>
1022:
1.216 jose 1023: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1024: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1025: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1026: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1027: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1028: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1029: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1030: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1031: <p>
1.168 miod 1032:
1.216 jose 1033: <li><strong>
1034: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1035: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1036: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1037: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1038: are available.
1.161 millert 1039: <p>
1040:
1.216 jose 1041: <li><strong>
1042: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1043: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1044: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1045: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1046: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1047: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1048: <p>
1049:
1.216 jose 1050: <li><strong>
1051: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1052: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1053: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1054: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1055: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1056: <p>
1.236 jose 1057: </ul>
1.164 millert 1058:
1.152 jakob 1059: <h3>2001</h3>
1060:
1.236 jose 1061: <ul>
1.216 jose 1062: <li><strong>
1063: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1064: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1065: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1066: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1067: <p>
1068:
1.216 jose 1069: <li><strong>
1070: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1071: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1072: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1073: <p>
1074:
1.158 deraadt 1075: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1076: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1077: 2001</a></strong>,
1078: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1079: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1080: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1081: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1082: <p>
1083:
1.216 jose 1084: <li><strong>
1085: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1086: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1087: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1088: <p>
1089:
1.201 deraadt 1090: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1091: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1092: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1093: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1094:
1.150 wvdputte 1095: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1096: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1097: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1098: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1099: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1100: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1101: <p>
1.137 aaron 1102:
1103: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1104: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1105: Conference</a></strong>,
1106: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1107: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1108: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1109: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1110: <p>
1111:
1112: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1113: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1114: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1115: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1116: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1117: <p>
1118:
1119: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1120: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1121: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1122: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1123: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1124: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1125: <p>
1126:
1127: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1128: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1129: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1130: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1131: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1132: <p>
1133:
1134: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1135: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1136: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1137: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1138: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1139: security community.
1140: <p>
1141:
1142: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1143: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1144: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1145: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1146: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1147: <p>
1148:
1149: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1150: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1151: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1152: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1153: <p>
1.236 jose 1154: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1155:
1.132 louis 1156: <h3>2000</h3>
1157:
1.236 jose 1158: <ul>
1.132 louis 1159: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1160: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1161: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1162: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1163: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1164: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1165: <p>
1166:
1167: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1168: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1169: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1170: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1171: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1172: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1173: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1174: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1175: <p>
1176:
1177: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1178: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1179: 2000</a></strong>,
1180: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1181: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1182: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1183: <p>
1.4 millert 1184:
1.132 louis 1185: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1186: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1187: Summit</a></strong>,
1188: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1189: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1190: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1191: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1192:
1193: <ul>
1.236 jose 1194: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1195: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1196: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1197: </ul>
1.4 millert 1198: <p>
1.132 louis 1199:
1.7 deraadt 1200: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1201: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1202: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1203: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1204: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1205: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1206: mind (drinks afterwards).
1207: <p>
1208:
1.216 jose 1209: <li><strong>
1210: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1211: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1212: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1213: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1214: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1215:
1.132 louis 1216: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1217: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1218: Revolution</a></strong>,
1219: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1220: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1221: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1222: <p>
1223:
1.132 louis 1224: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1225: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1226: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1227: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1228: <ul>
1.236 jose 1229: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1230: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1231: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1232: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1233: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1234: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1235: <p>
1.132 louis 1236:
1.10 provos 1237: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1238: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1239: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1240: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1241: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1242: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1243: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1244: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1245: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1246: <br>
1247: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1248: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1249: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1250:
1.132 louis 1251: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1252: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1253: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1254: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1255: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1256: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1257: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1258: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1259: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1260: and spoke about
1261: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1262: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1263: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1264: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1265: <p>
1.132 louis 1266:
1.6 deraadt 1267: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1268: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1269: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1270: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1271: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1272: <br>
1273: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1274: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1275: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1276: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1277:
1.216 jose 1278: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1279: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1280: Conference.</a></strong>,
1281: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1282: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1283: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1284: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1285: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1286: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1287: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1288: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1289: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1290: <ul>
1291:
1292: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1293: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1294: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1295: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1296: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1297:
1298: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1299: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1300: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1301: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1302: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1303:
1.132 louis 1304: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1305: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1306: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1307: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1308: <p>
1309:
1.132 louis 1310: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1311: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1312: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1313: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1314: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1315: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1316: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1317: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1318:
1.132 louis 1319: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1320: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1321: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1322: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1323: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1324: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1325: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1326: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1327: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1328:
1.17 deraadt 1329: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1330: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1331: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1332: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1333: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1334: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1335: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1336: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1337: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1338:
1.23 niklas 1339: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1340: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1341: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1342: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1343: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1344: efforts.
1345: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1346: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1347: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1348: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1349: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1350: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1351:
1.132 louis 1352: <li><strong>
1353: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1354: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1355: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1356: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1357: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1358: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1359: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1360: <p>
1.23 niklas 1361:
1.31 deraadt 1362: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1363: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1364: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1365: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1366: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1367: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1368: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1369: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1370: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1371: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1372:
1.201 deraadt 1373: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1374: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1375: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1376: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1377: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1378: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1379: <p>
1.236 jose 1380: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1381:
1.132 louis 1382: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1383:
1.236 jose 1384: <ul>
1.216 jose 1385: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1386: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1387: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1388: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1389: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1390: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1391: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1392: <p>
1393:
1.216 jose 1394: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1395: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1396: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1397: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1398: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1399: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1400: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1401: There were many other OpenBSD
1402: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1403: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1404:
1405: <ul>
1406: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1407: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1408: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1409: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1410: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1411: </ul>
1412: <p>
1413:
1414: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1415: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1416: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1417: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1418: <p>
1419:
1420: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1421: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1422: Software '99</a></strong>,
1423: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1424: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1425: <a
1.375 grunk 1426: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1427: <p>
1428:
1429: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1430: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1431: 1999</a></strong>,
1432: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1433: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1434: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1435: <p>
1436:
1.236 jose 1437: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1438: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1439: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1440: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1441: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1442: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1443: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1444: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1445: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1446: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1447: conference in Stockholm.
1448: <p>
1449:
1450: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1451: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1452: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1453: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1454: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1455: coordinated.
1456: <p>
1457:
1458: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1459: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1460: Security</a></strong>,
1461: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1462: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1463: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1464: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1465: significant security roles.
1466: <p>
1467:
1468: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1469: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1470: meeting</a></strong>,
1471: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1472: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1473: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1474: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1475: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1476: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1477: <p>
1.45 jason 1478:
1.132 louis 1479: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1480: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1481: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1482: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1483: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1484: <p>
1.132 louis 1485:
1.236 jose 1486: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1487: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1488: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1489: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1490: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1491: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1492: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1493: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1494: June.)
1.132 louis 1495: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1496: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1497: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1498:
1.375 grunk 1499: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1500: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1501: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1502: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1503: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1504: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1505: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1506: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1507: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1508: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1509: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1510: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1511: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1512: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1513: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1514: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1515: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1516: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1517: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1518: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1519: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1520: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1521: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1522: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1523: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1524: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1525: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1526: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1527:
1.51 deraadt 1528: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1529: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1530: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1531: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1532: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1533: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1534: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1535: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1536: <p>
1537:
1.53 jakob 1538: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1539: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1540: meeting</a></strong>,
1541: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1542: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1543: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1544: <p>
1545:
1.132 louis 1546: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1547: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1548: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1549: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1550: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1551: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1552: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1553: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1554: <p>
1.236 jose 1555: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1556:
1.132 louis 1557: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1558:
1.236 jose 1559: <ul>
1.132 louis 1560: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1561: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1562: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1563: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1564: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1565: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1566: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1567: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1568: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1569: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1570: <p>
1571:
1.236 jose 1572: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1573: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1574: Conference</a></strong>,
1575: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1576: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1577: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1578: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1579: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1580: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1581: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1582: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1583: <br>
1584: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1585: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1586: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1587: <p>
1588:
1.73 deraadt 1589: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1590: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1591: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1592: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1593: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1594: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1595: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1596: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1597: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1598:
1.236 jose 1599: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1600: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1601: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1602: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1603: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1604: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1605: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1606: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1607:
1.80 deraadt 1608: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1609: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1610: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1611: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1612: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1613: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1614: <p>
1615:
1.93 louis 1616: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1617: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1618: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1619: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1620: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1621: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1622: <p>
1623:
1.216 jose 1624: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1625: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1626: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1627: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1628: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1629: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1630: <p>
1631:
1.236 jose 1632: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1633: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1634: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1635: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1636: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1637: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1638: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1639: <br>
1640: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1641: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1642: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1643: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1644: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1645:
1.236 jose 1646: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1647: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1648: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1649: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1650: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1651: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1652: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1653: <p>
1654:
1.236 jose 1655: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1656: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1657: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1658: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1659: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1660: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1661: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1662: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1663: <br>
1664: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1665: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1666: <p>
1667:
1.105 wvdputte 1668: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1669: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1670: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1671: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1672: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1673: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1674: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1675: <br>
1.132 louis 1676: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1677: <p>
1.236 jose 1678: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1679:
1.132 louis 1680: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1681:
1.236 jose 1682: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1683: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1684: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1685: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1686: Niels held a
1687: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1688: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1689: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1690: <p>
1.132 louis 1691:
1.236 jose 1692: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1693: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1694: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1695: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1696: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1697: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1698:
1.236 jose 1699: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1700: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1701: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1702: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1703: <br>
1704: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1705: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1706: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1707: <p>
1708:
1.125 deraadt 1709: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1710: <a
1711: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1712: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1713: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1714: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1715: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1716:
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1720: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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