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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:
1.445 ! martin 27: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 28:
29: <ul>
1.346 marius 30:
1.445 ! martin 31: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
! 32: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
! 33: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
! 34: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth will be present, run by the usual gang of suspects.
1.386 wvdputte 35: <p>
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1.152 jakob 54: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 56: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 57:
58: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 59:
1.445 ! martin 60: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
! 61: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
! 62: Berlin</a></strong>,
! 63: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
! 64: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
! 65: <p>
! 66:
1.435 matthieu 67: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
68: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
69: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
70: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
71: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 72: event.
1.444 grunk 73: The program included a
74: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 75: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
76: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 77: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
78: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 79: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 80: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 81: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 82: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 83: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 84: <p>
1.435 matthieu 85: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
86: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
87: <p>
88:
1.434 bernd 89: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
90: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
91: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
92: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
93: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
94: <p>
95:
1.441 niallo 96: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
97: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
98: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
99: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
100: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
101: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
102: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
103: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
104: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
105: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
106: scripts.
107: <p>
108:
1.424 mbalmer 109: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
110: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
111: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 112: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
113: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
114: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 115: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 116: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 117: talks, including
118: <ul>
119: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
120: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
121: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
122: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
123: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
124: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 125: <p>
126:
127: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
128: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
129: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 130: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 131: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
132: <p>
133:
1.418 djm 134: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
135: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
136: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
137: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
138: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
139: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
140: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 141: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
142: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
143: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 144: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
145: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
146: <p>
147:
1.415 aanriot 148: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
149: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
150: 2005</a></strong>,
151: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
152: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
153: help of Thierry Thomas.
154: <p>
155:
1.420 deraadt 156: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
157: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
158: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
159: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
160: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
161: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
162: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
163: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
164: registration was mandatory.<br>
165: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 166: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 167: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
168: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
169: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 170: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 171: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
172: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
173: mechanism.
174: <p>
175:
1.414 bernd 176: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
177: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
178: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
179: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
180: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
181: <p>
182:
183: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
184: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
185: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
186: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
187: <p>
188:
1.410 wvdputte 189: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
190: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
191: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 192: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
193: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 194: <p>
195:
196: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
197: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
198: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
199: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 200: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 201: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
202: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
203: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
204: installed on your computer.
205: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 206: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 207: <p>
208:
1.404 wvdputte 209: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
210: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 211: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 212: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
213: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 214: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 215: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
216: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
217: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
218: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
219: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
220: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
221: <p>
222:
223: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
224: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
225: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
226: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
227: <p>
228:
1.403 henning 229: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
230: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 231: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 232: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
233: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
234: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
235: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
236: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
237: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
238: <p>
239:
1.388 tom 240: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
241: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
242: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 243: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 244: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
245: <p>
246:
1.385 mickey 247: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 248: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 249: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 250: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
251: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 252: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
253: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 254: and an excellent
255: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
256: If you want to see what happened previously, check
257: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
258: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
259: <p>
260:
1.382 pedro 261: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
262: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.org/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 263: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 264: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
265: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
266: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 267: <p>
268:
1.378 aanriot 269: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
270: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 271: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 272: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
273: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
274: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
275: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 276: <p>
277:
1.375 grunk 278: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
279: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 280: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 281: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
282: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
283: <p>
284:
1.374 grunk 285: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
286: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 287: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 288: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
289: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
290: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
291: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
292: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
293: <p>
294:
1.371 deraadt 295: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
296: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 297: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 298: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
299: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
300: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
301: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
302: He demonstrated how companies can easily
303: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
304: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
305: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
306: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
307: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
308: <p>
309:
1.366 martin 310: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
311: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
312: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
313: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
314: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
315: CDs and shirts.
316: <p>
317:
1.365 mcbride 318: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
319: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
320: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
321: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
322: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
323: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
324: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
325: <br>
326: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
327: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
328: <p>
329:
1.362 reyk 330: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
331: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
332: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
333: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
334: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
335: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
336: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
337: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
338: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
339: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
340: <p>
341:
1.358 mcbride 342: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
343: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
344: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
345: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
346: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
347: <p>
348:
1.357 henning 349: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
350: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
351: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
352: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
353: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
354: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
355: <p>
356:
1.384 tom 357: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 358: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 359: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 360: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
361: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
362: packages work in front of about 30 people.
363: <p>
364:
1.353 henning 365: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
366: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 367: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 368: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
369: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
370: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
371: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 372: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 373: <p>
374:
1.352 henning 375: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
376: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 377: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 378: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
379: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
380: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
381: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
382: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
383: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
384: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
385: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
386: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
387: available if you couldn't make it there.
388: <p>
389:
1.350 marius 390: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
391:
392: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 393: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 394: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
395: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
396: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
397: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
398: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 399: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 400: <p>
401:
1.345 henning 402: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
403: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 404: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 405: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
406: <p>
407:
1.344 martin 408: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
409: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 410: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 411: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
412: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
413: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
414: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
415: (in French) are available.
416: <p>
417:
1.337 deraadt 418: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
419: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 420: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 421: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
422: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 423: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 424: source firewalls.
425: <p>
426:
1.317 henning 427: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
428: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
429: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 430: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 431: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 432: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 433: <p>
434:
1.312 deraadt 435: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
436: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
437: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 438: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
439: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 440: <p>
441:
1.319 saad 442: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
443: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
444: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
445: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
446: <p>
447:
1.310 mickey 448: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 449: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 450: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 451: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 452: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
453: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 454: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 455: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 456: <p>
1.312 deraadt 457:
1.308 deraadt 458: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
459: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
460: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
461: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 462: talks. Topics included
463: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 464: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
465: OpenBGPD, and pf.
466: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 467: <p>
468:
1.304 saad 469: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
470: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
471: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
472: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
473: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 474: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 475: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 476: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
477: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 478: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 479: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
480: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
481: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 482: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 483: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
484: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
485: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
486: <p>
1.301 saad 487: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
488: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
489: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
490: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
491: <p>
492: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
493: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
494: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
495: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
496: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
497: <p>
1.293 saad 498: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
499: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
500: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
501: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
502: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
503: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 504: french translation team.<br>
505: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
506: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
507: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
508: available.<br>
509: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 510: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
511: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
512: <p>
1.296 mcbride 513: </ul>
1.293 saad 514:
1.296 mcbride 515: <h3>2004</h3>
516:
517: <ul>
1.287 henning 518: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
519: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 520: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 521: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
522: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
523: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 524: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 525: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
526: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
527: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
528: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
529: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
530: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 531: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 532: driver.
533: <p>
1.248 deraadt 534:
1.286 kevlo 535: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 536: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 537: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
538: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
539: <p>
540:
1.285 deraadt 541: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
542: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
543: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
544: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
545: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
546: <p>
547:
1.283 saad 548: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
549: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
550: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
551: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
552: meeting of the
553: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
554: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 555: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 556: <p>
557:
1.282 henning 558: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
559: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
560: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
561: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
562: two days, on bgpd
563: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
564: ntpd
565: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
566: and signal handlers
567: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
568: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
569: <p>
570:
1.275 deraadt 571: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
572: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
573: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
574: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
575: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
576: Room B-02 of the
577: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
578: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
579: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
580: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
581: The talk was also given the following day at the
582: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
583: <p>
584:
1.271 henning 585: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
586: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
587: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 588: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
589: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 590: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 591: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 592: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 593: <p>
594:
595: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
596: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
597: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 598: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
599: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 600: <p>
601:
1.276 deraadt 602: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 603: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
604: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
605: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
606: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
607: <p>
608:
609: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 610: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
611: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 612: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 613: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 614: <p>
615:
616: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
617: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
618: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
619: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
620: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
621: <p>
622:
1.268 krw 623: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
624: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
625: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
626: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
627: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
628: <p>
629:
1.375 grunk 630: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 631: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
632: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
633: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
634: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
635: <p>
636:
637: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
638: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 639: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 640: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
641: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
642: <p>
643:
1.265 wvdputte 644: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
645: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 646: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 647: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
648: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
649: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
650: event."
651: <br>
652: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
653: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
654: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
655: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
656: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
657: <br>
658: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
659: <p>
660:
1.262 henning 661: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
662: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 663: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 664: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
665: Henning's slides from his talks about
666: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
667: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
668: are available.
669: <p>
670:
1.261 deraadt 671: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 672: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 673: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
674: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
675: newly extended version of the
676: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
677: For more information, see this
678: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
679: ComputerWorld article</a>.
680: <p>
681:
682:
1.257 saad 683: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
684: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 685: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 686: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
687: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
688: <p>
689:
690: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
691: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 692: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 693: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
694: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
695: <p>
696:
1.256 mickey 697: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 698: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 699: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
700: session.
701: <p>
702:
1.254 xsa 703: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 704: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 705: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
706: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
707: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
708: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
709: a basic talk about pf.
710: <p>
711:
1.248 deraadt 712: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 713: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 714: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
715: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 716: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
717: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
718: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 719: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
720: <p>
721:
1.247 canacar 722: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
723: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
724: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
725: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
726: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
727: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
728: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
729: projects were discussed.<br>
730: You can view the
1.281 canacar 731: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 732: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 733: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 734: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
735: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
736: <p>
737:
1.242 henning 738: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
739: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
740: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 741: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
742: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
743: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
744: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
745: and systrace
1.263 saad 746: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 747: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
748: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
749: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 750: <p>
751:
1.240 espie 752: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
753: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
754: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
755: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
756: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
757: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
758: <p>
759:
760: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
761: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
762: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 763: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 764: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
765: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
766: <p>
767: </ul>
768:
1.188 henning 769: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 770:
771: <ul>
1.232 jose 772: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
773: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
774: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
775: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
776: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 777: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 778: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 779: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 780: <p>
1.232 jose 781:
1.228 jose 782: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 783: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 784: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
785: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 786: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
787: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 788: with OpenBSD PF.
789: <p>
790:
791: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
792: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
793: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
794: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
795: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 796: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
797: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
798: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
799: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 800: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 801: slides in PDF format </a>
802: (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 803: <p>
804:
1.227 jose 805: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
806: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
807: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
808: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
809: <p>
810:
811: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
812: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 813: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 814: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 815: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 816: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
817: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 818: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 819: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 820: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 821: in Internet worm defenses.
822: <p>
823:
1.224 miod 824: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
825: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
826: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
827: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
828: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
829: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
830: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
831: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
832: OpenBSD.
833: <p>
834:
835: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
836: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
837: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
838: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
839: <p>
840:
841: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
842: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
843: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
844: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
845: <p>
846:
1.219 jose 847: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
848: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
849: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 850: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 851: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
852: <p>
853:
1.218 jose 854: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
855: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
856: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 857: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 858: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
859: <p>
860:
1.214 henning 861: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
862: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 863: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 864: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
865: <p>
866:
1.213 jose 867: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
868: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 869: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 870: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 871: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
872: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
873: <p>
874:
1.211 jose 875: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
876: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 877: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 878: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
879: <p>
880:
881: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
882: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 883: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 884: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 885: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
886: <p>
887:
1.209 wvdputte 888: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
889: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 890: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 891: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
892: <p>
1.195 deraadt 893:
1.202 jason 894: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 895: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 896: Conference</a></strong>,
897: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 898: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
899: <ul>
1.216 jose 900: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 901: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 902: Angelos D. Keromytis,
903: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 904: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 905: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
906: </ul>
907: <p>
908:
1.201 deraadt 909: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 910: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 911: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
912: session.
913: <p>
914:
1.216 jose 915: <li><strong>
916: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
917: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 918: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
919: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
920: <p>
921:
1.216 jose 922: <li><strong>
923: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
924: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 925: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 926: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 927: <p>
928:
1.216 jose 929: <li><strong>
930: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
931: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 932: 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 933: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 934: <p>
935:
1.216 jose 936: <li><strong>
937: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
938: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 939: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
940: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 941: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
942: user groups.
943: <p>
944:
1.236 jose 945: <li><strong>
946: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 947: Group</a></strong>,
948: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 949: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
950: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
951: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
952: <p>
953:
1.216 jose 954: <li><strong>
955: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
956: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 957: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 958: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 959: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
960: <p>
961:
1.216 jose 962: <li><strong>
963: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
964: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 965: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 966: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 967: <p>
1.236 jose 968: </ul>
1.185 miod 969:
1.161 millert 970: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 971:
972: <ul>
973: <li><strong>
974: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 975: Congress</a></strong>,
976: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 977: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
978: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 979: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 980: <p>
1.177 jason 981:
1.216 jose 982: <li><strong>
983: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
984: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 985: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 986: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 987: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
988: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 989: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 990: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
991: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 992: <p>
1.178 pb 993:
1.216 jose 994: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 995: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 996: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
997: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 998: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
999: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1000: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1001: <p>
1002:
1.216 jose 1003: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1004: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1005: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1006: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1007: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1008: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1009: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1010: <p>
1011:
1012: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1013: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1014: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1015: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1016: Niels Provos presented his
1017: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1018: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1019: <p>
1.172 miod 1020:
1.216 jose 1021: <li><strong>
1022: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1023: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1024: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1025: <p>
1026:
1.216 jose 1027: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1028: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1029: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1030: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1031: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1032: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1033: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1034: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1035: <p>
1.168 miod 1036:
1.216 jose 1037: <li><strong>
1038: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1039: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1040: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1041: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1042: are available.
1.161 millert 1043: <p>
1044:
1.216 jose 1045: <li><strong>
1046: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1047: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1048: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1049: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1050: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1051: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1052: <p>
1053:
1.216 jose 1054: <li><strong>
1055: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1056: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1057: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1058: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1059: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1060: <p>
1.236 jose 1061: </ul>
1.164 millert 1062:
1.152 jakob 1063: <h3>2001</h3>
1064:
1.236 jose 1065: <ul>
1.216 jose 1066: <li><strong>
1067: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1068: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1069: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1070: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1071: <p>
1072:
1.216 jose 1073: <li><strong>
1074: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1075: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1076: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1077: <p>
1078:
1.158 deraadt 1079: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1080: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1081: 2001</a></strong>,
1082: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1083: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1084: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1085: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1086: <p>
1087:
1.216 jose 1088: <li><strong>
1089: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1090: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1091: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1092: <p>
1093:
1.201 deraadt 1094: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1095: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1096: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1097: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1098:
1.150 wvdputte 1099: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1100: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1101: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1102: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1103: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1104: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1105: <p>
1.137 aaron 1106:
1107: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1108: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1109: Conference</a></strong>,
1110: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1111: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1112: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1113: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1114: <p>
1115:
1116: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1117: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1118: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1119: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1120: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1121: <p>
1122:
1123: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1124: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1125: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1126: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1127: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1128: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1129: <p>
1130:
1131: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1132: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1133: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1134: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1135: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1136: <p>
1137:
1138: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1139: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1140: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1141: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1142: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1143: security community.
1144: <p>
1145:
1146: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1147: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1148: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1149: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1150: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1151: <p>
1152:
1153: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1154: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1155: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1156: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1157: <p>
1.236 jose 1158: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1159:
1.132 louis 1160: <h3>2000</h3>
1161:
1.236 jose 1162: <ul>
1.132 louis 1163: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1164: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1165: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1166: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1167: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1168: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1169: <p>
1170:
1171: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1172: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1173: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1174: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1175: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1176: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1177: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1178: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1179: <p>
1180:
1181: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1182: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1183: 2000</a></strong>,
1184: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1185: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1186: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1187: <p>
1.4 millert 1188:
1.132 louis 1189: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1190: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1191: Summit</a></strong>,
1192: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1193: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1194: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1195: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1196:
1197: <ul>
1.236 jose 1198: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1199: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1200: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1201: </ul>
1.4 millert 1202: <p>
1.132 louis 1203:
1.7 deraadt 1204: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1205: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1206: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1207: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1208: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1209: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1210: mind (drinks afterwards).
1211: <p>
1212:
1.216 jose 1213: <li><strong>
1214: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1215: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1216: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1217: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1218: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1219:
1.132 louis 1220: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1221: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1222: Revolution</a></strong>,
1223: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1224: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1225: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1226: <p>
1227:
1.132 louis 1228: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1229: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1230: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1231: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1232: <ul>
1.236 jose 1233: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1234: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1235: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1236: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1237: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1238: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1239: <p>
1.132 louis 1240:
1.10 provos 1241: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1242: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1243: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1244: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1245: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1246: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1247: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1248: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1249: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1250: <br>
1251: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1252: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1253: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1254:
1.132 louis 1255: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1256: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1257: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1258: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1259: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1260: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1261: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1262: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1263: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1264: and spoke about
1265: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1266: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1267: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1268: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1269: <p>
1.132 louis 1270:
1.6 deraadt 1271: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1272: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1273: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1274: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1275: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1276: <br>
1277: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1278: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1279: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1280: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1281:
1.216 jose 1282: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1283: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1284: Conference.</a></strong>,
1285: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1286: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1287: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1288: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1289: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1290: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1291: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1292: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1293: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1294: <ul>
1295:
1296: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1297: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1298: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1299: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1300: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1301:
1302: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1303: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1304: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1305: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1306: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1307:
1.132 louis 1308: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1309: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1310: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1311: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1312: <p>
1313:
1.132 louis 1314: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1315: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1316: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1317: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1318: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1319: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1320: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1321: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1322:
1.132 louis 1323: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1324: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1325: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1326: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1327: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1328: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1329: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1330: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1331: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1332:
1.17 deraadt 1333: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1334: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1335: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1336: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1337: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1338: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1339: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1340: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1341: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1342:
1.23 niklas 1343: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1344: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1345: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1346: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1347: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1348: efforts.
1349: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1350: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1351: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1352: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1353: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1354: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1355:
1.132 louis 1356: <li><strong>
1357: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1358: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1359: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1360: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1361: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1362: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1363: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1364: <p>
1.23 niklas 1365:
1.31 deraadt 1366: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1367: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1368: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1369: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1370: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1371: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1372: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1373: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1374: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1375: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1376:
1.201 deraadt 1377: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1378: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1379: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1380: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1381: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1382: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1383: <p>
1.236 jose 1384: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1385:
1.132 louis 1386: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1387:
1.236 jose 1388: <ul>
1.216 jose 1389: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1390: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1391: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1392: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1393: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1394: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1395: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1396: <p>
1397:
1.216 jose 1398: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1399: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1400: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1401: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1402: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1403: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1404: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1405: There were many other OpenBSD
1406: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1407: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1408:
1409: <ul>
1410: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1411: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1412: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1413: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1414: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1415: </ul>
1416: <p>
1417:
1418: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1419: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1420: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1421: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1422: <p>
1423:
1424: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1425: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1426: Software '99</a></strong>,
1427: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1428: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1429: <a
1.375 grunk 1430: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1431: <p>
1432:
1433: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1434: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1435: 1999</a></strong>,
1436: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1437: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1438: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1439: <p>
1440:
1.236 jose 1441: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1442: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1443: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1444: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1445: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1446: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1447: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1448: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1449: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1450: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1451: conference in Stockholm.
1452: <p>
1453:
1454: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1455: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1456: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1457: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1458: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1459: coordinated.
1460: <p>
1461:
1462: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1463: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1464: Security</a></strong>,
1465: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1466: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1467: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1468: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1469: significant security roles.
1470: <p>
1471:
1472: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1473: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1474: meeting</a></strong>,
1475: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1476: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1477: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1478: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1479: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1480: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1481: <p>
1.45 jason 1482:
1.132 louis 1483: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1484: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1485: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1486: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1487: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1488: <p>
1.132 louis 1489:
1.236 jose 1490: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1491: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1492: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1493: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1494: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1495: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1496: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1497: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1498: June.)
1.132 louis 1499: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1500: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1501: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1502:
1.375 grunk 1503: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1504: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1505: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1506: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1507: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1508: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1509: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1510: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1511: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1512: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1513: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1514: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1515: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1516: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1517: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1518: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1519: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1520: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1521: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1522: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1523: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1524: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1525: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1526: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1527: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1528: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1529: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1530: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1531:
1.51 deraadt 1532: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1533: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1534: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1535: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1536: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1537: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1538: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1539: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1540: <p>
1541:
1.53 jakob 1542: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1543: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1544: meeting</a></strong>,
1545: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1546: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1547: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1548: <p>
1549:
1.132 louis 1550: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1551: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1552: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1553: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1554: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1555: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1556: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1557: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1558: <p>
1.236 jose 1559: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1560:
1.132 louis 1561: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1562:
1.236 jose 1563: <ul>
1.132 louis 1564: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1565: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1566: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1567: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1568: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1569: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1570: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1571: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1572: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1573: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1574: <p>
1575:
1.236 jose 1576: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1577: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1578: Conference</a></strong>,
1579: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1580: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1581: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1582: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1583: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1584: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1585: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1586: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1587: <br>
1588: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1589: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1590: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1591: <p>
1592:
1.73 deraadt 1593: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1594: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1595: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1596: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1597: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1598: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1599: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1600: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1601: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1602:
1.236 jose 1603: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1604: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1605: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1606: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1607: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1608: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1609: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1610: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1611:
1.80 deraadt 1612: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1613: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1614: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1615: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1616: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1617: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1618: <p>
1619:
1.93 louis 1620: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1621: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1622: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1623: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1624: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1625: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1626: <p>
1627:
1.216 jose 1628: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1629: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1630: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1631: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1632: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1633: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1634: <p>
1635:
1.236 jose 1636: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1637: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1638: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1639: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1640: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1641: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1642: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1643: <br>
1644: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1645: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1646: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1647: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1648: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1649:
1.236 jose 1650: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1651: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1652: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1653: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1654: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1655: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1656: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1657: <p>
1658:
1.236 jose 1659: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1660: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1661: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1662: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1663: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1664: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1665: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1666: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1667: <br>
1668: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1669: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1670: <p>
1671:
1.105 wvdputte 1672: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1673: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1674: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1675: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1676: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1677: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1678: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1679: <br>
1.132 louis 1680: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1681: <p>
1.236 jose 1682: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1683:
1.132 louis 1684: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1685:
1.236 jose 1686: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1687: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1688: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1689: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1690: Niels held a
1691: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1692: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1693: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1694: <p>
1.132 louis 1695:
1.236 jose 1696: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1697: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1698: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1699: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1700: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1701: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1702:
1.236 jose 1703: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1704: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1705: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1706: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1707: <br>
1708: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1709: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1710: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1711: <p>
1712:
1.125 deraadt 1713: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1714: <a
1715: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1716: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1717: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1718: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1719: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1720:
1.1 deraadt 1721:
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1724: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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