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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:
1.446 ! wvdputte 31: <li><strong><a name=Paris2006></a>
! 32: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a></strong>,
! 33: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
! 34: There will be an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
! 35: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert
! 36: <p>
! 37:
1.445 martin 38: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
39: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
40: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
41: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth will be present, run by the usual gang of suspects.
1.386 wvdputte 42: <p>
43:
1.446 ! wvdputte 44: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
! 45: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
! 46: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen<br>
! 47: Wim and Felix Kronlage will hold a talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
! 48: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups
! 49: <p>
! 50:
! 51: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
! 52: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
! 53: May 3 - 6, 2005, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
! 54: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
! 55: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
! 56: <p>
! 57:
! 58: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
! 59: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a></strong>,
! 60: To be announced, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
! 61: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
! 62: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
! 63: <p>
! 64:
! 65: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
! 66: <a href="http://2006.rencontresmondiales.org/home/?lang=en_GB">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
! 67: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
! 68: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
! 69: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot & Alexandre Anriot
! 70: <p>
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1.152 jakob 88: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 90: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 91:
92: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 93:
1.445 martin 94: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
95: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
96: Berlin</a></strong>,
97: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
98: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
99: <p>
100:
1.435 matthieu 101: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
102: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
103: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
104: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
105: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 106: event.
1.444 grunk 107: The program included a
108: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 109: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
110: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 111: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
112: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 113: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 114: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 115: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 116: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 117: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 118: <p>
1.435 matthieu 119: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
120: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
121: <p>
122:
1.434 bernd 123: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
124: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
125: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
126: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
127: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
128: <p>
129:
1.441 niallo 130: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
131: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
132: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
133: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
134: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
135: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
136: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
137: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
138: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
139: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
140: scripts.
141: <p>
142:
1.424 mbalmer 143: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
144: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
145: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 146: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
147: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
148: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 149: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 150: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 151: talks, including
152: <ul>
153: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
154: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
155: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
156: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
157: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
158: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 159: <p>
160:
161: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
162: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
163: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 164: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 165: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
166: <p>
167:
1.418 djm 168: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
169: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
170: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
171: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
172: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
173: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
174: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 175: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
176: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
177: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 178: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
179: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
180: <p>
181:
1.415 aanriot 182: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
183: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
184: 2005</a></strong>,
185: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
186: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
187: help of Thierry Thomas.
188: <p>
189:
1.420 deraadt 190: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
191: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
192: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
193: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
194: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
195: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
196: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
197: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
198: registration was mandatory.<br>
199: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 200: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 201: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
202: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
203: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 204: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 205: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
206: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
207: mechanism.
208: <p>
209:
1.414 bernd 210: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
211: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
212: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
213: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
214: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
215: <p>
216:
217: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
218: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
219: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
220: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
221: <p>
222:
1.410 wvdputte 223: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
224: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
225: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 226: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
227: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 228: <p>
229:
230: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
231: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
232: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
233: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 234: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 235: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
236: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
237: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
238: installed on your computer.
239: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 240: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 241: <p>
242:
1.404 wvdputte 243: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
244: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 245: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 246: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
247: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 248: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 249: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
250: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
251: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
252: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
253: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
254: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
255: <p>
256:
257: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
258: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
259: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
260: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
261: <p>
262:
1.403 henning 263: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
264: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 265: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 266: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
267: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
268: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
269: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
270: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
271: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
272: <p>
273:
1.388 tom 274: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
275: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
276: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 277: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 278: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
279: <p>
280:
1.385 mickey 281: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 282: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 283: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 284: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
285: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 286: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
287: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 288: and an excellent
289: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
290: If you want to see what happened previously, check
291: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
292: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
293: <p>
294:
1.382 pedro 295: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
296: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.org/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 297: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 298: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
299: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
300: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 301: <p>
302:
1.378 aanriot 303: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
304: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 305: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 306: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
307: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
308: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
309: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 310: <p>
311:
1.375 grunk 312: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
313: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 314: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 315: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
316: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
317: <p>
318:
1.374 grunk 319: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
320: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 321: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 322: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
323: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
324: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
325: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
326: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
327: <p>
328:
1.371 deraadt 329: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
330: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 331: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 332: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
333: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
334: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
335: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
336: He demonstrated how companies can easily
337: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
338: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
339: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
340: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
341: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
342: <p>
343:
1.366 martin 344: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
345: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
346: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
347: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
348: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
349: CDs and shirts.
350: <p>
351:
1.365 mcbride 352: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
353: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
354: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
355: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
356: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
357: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
358: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
359: <br>
360: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
361: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
362: <p>
363:
1.362 reyk 364: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
365: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
366: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
367: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
368: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
369: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
370: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
371: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
372: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
373: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
374: <p>
375:
1.358 mcbride 376: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
377: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
378: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
379: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
380: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
381: <p>
382:
1.357 henning 383: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
384: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
385: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
386: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
387: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
388: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
389: <p>
390:
1.384 tom 391: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 392: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 393: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 394: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
395: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
396: packages work in front of about 30 people.
397: <p>
398:
1.353 henning 399: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
400: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 401: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 402: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
403: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
404: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
405: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 406: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 407: <p>
408:
1.352 henning 409: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
410: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 411: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 412: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
413: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
414: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
415: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
416: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
417: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
418: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
419: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
420: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
421: available if you couldn't make it there.
422: <p>
423:
1.350 marius 424: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
425:
426: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 427: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 428: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
429: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
430: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
431: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
432: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 433: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 434: <p>
435:
1.345 henning 436: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
437: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 438: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 439: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
440: <p>
441:
1.344 martin 442: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
443: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 444: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 445: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
446: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
447: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
448: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
449: (in French) are available.
450: <p>
451:
1.337 deraadt 452: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
453: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 454: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 455: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
456: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 457: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 458: source firewalls.
459: <p>
460:
1.317 henning 461: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
462: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
463: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 464: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 465: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 466: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 467: <p>
468:
1.312 deraadt 469: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
470: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
471: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 472: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
473: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 474: <p>
475:
1.319 saad 476: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
477: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
478: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
479: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
480: <p>
481:
1.310 mickey 482: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 483: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 484: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 485: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 486: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
487: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 488: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 489: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 490: <p>
1.312 deraadt 491:
1.308 deraadt 492: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
493: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
494: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
495: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 496: talks. Topics included
497: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 498: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
499: OpenBGPD, and pf.
500: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 501: <p>
502:
1.304 saad 503: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
504: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
505: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
506: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
507: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 508: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 509: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 510: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
511: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 512: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 513: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
514: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
515: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 516: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 517: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
518: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
519: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
520: <p>
1.301 saad 521: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
522: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
523: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
524: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
525: <p>
526: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
527: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
528: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
529: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
530: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
531: <p>
1.293 saad 532: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
533: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
534: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
535: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
536: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
537: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 538: french translation team.<br>
539: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
540: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
541: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
542: available.<br>
543: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 544: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
545: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
546: <p>
1.296 mcbride 547: </ul>
1.293 saad 548:
1.296 mcbride 549: <h3>2004</h3>
550:
551: <ul>
1.287 henning 552: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
553: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 554: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 555: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
556: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
557: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 558: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 559: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
560: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
561: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
562: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
563: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
564: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 565: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 566: driver.
567: <p>
1.248 deraadt 568:
1.286 kevlo 569: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 570: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 571: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
572: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
573: <p>
574:
1.285 deraadt 575: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
576: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
577: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
578: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
579: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
580: <p>
581:
1.283 saad 582: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
583: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
584: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
585: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
586: meeting of the
587: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
588: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 589: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 590: <p>
591:
1.282 henning 592: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
593: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
594: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
595: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
596: two days, on bgpd
597: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
598: ntpd
599: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
600: and signal handlers
601: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
602: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
603: <p>
604:
1.275 deraadt 605: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
606: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
607: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
608: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
609: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
610: Room B-02 of the
611: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
612: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
613: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
614: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
615: The talk was also given the following day at the
616: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
617: <p>
618:
1.271 henning 619: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
620: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
621: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 622: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
623: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 624: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 625: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 626: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 627: <p>
628:
629: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
630: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
631: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 632: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
633: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 634: <p>
635:
1.276 deraadt 636: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 637: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
638: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
639: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
640: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
641: <p>
642:
643: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 644: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
645: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 646: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 647: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 648: <p>
649:
650: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
651: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
652: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
653: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
654: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
655: <p>
656:
1.268 krw 657: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
658: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
659: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
660: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
661: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
662: <p>
663:
1.375 grunk 664: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 665: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
666: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
667: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
668: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
669: <p>
670:
671: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
672: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 673: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 674: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
675: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
676: <p>
677:
1.265 wvdputte 678: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
679: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 680: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 681: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
682: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
683: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
684: event."
685: <br>
686: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
687: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
688: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
689: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
690: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
691: <br>
692: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
693: <p>
694:
1.262 henning 695: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
696: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 697: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 698: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
699: Henning's slides from his talks about
700: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
701: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
702: are available.
703: <p>
704:
1.261 deraadt 705: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 706: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 707: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
708: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
709: newly extended version of the
710: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
711: For more information, see this
712: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
713: ComputerWorld article</a>.
714: <p>
715:
716:
1.257 saad 717: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
718: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 719: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 720: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
721: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
722: <p>
723:
724: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
725: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 726: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 727: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
728: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
729: <p>
730:
1.256 mickey 731: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 732: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 733: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
734: session.
735: <p>
736:
1.254 xsa 737: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 738: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 739: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
740: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
741: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
742: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
743: a basic talk about pf.
744: <p>
745:
1.248 deraadt 746: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 747: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 748: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
749: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 750: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
751: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
752: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 753: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
754: <p>
755:
1.247 canacar 756: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
757: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
758: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
759: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
760: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
761: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
762: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
763: projects were discussed.<br>
764: You can view the
1.281 canacar 765: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 766: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 767: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 768: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
769: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
770: <p>
771:
1.242 henning 772: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
773: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
774: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 775: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
776: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
777: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
778: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
779: and systrace
1.263 saad 780: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 781: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
782: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
783: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 784: <p>
785:
1.240 espie 786: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
787: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
788: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
789: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
790: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
791: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
792: <p>
793:
794: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
795: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
796: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 797: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 798: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
799: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
800: <p>
801: </ul>
802:
1.188 henning 803: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 804:
805: <ul>
1.232 jose 806: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
807: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
808: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
809: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
810: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 811: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 812: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 813: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 814: <p>
1.232 jose 815:
1.228 jose 816: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 817: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 818: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
819: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 820: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
821: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 822: with OpenBSD PF.
823: <p>
824:
825: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
826: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
827: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
828: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
829: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 830: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
831: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
832: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
833: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 834: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 835: slides in PDF format </a>
836: (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 837: <p>
838:
1.227 jose 839: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
840: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
841: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
842: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
843: <p>
844:
845: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
846: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 847: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 848: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 849: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 850: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
851: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 852: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 853: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 854: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 855: in Internet worm defenses.
856: <p>
857:
1.224 miod 858: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
859: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
860: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
861: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
862: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
863: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
864: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
865: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
866: OpenBSD.
867: <p>
868:
869: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
870: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
871: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
872: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
873: <p>
874:
875: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
876: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
877: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
878: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
879: <p>
880:
1.219 jose 881: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
882: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
883: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 884: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 885: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
886: <p>
887:
1.218 jose 888: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
889: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
890: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 891: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 892: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
893: <p>
894:
1.214 henning 895: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
896: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 897: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 898: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
899: <p>
900:
1.213 jose 901: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
902: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 903: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 904: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 905: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
906: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
907: <p>
908:
1.211 jose 909: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
910: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 911: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 912: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
913: <p>
914:
915: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
916: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 917: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 918: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 919: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
920: <p>
921:
1.209 wvdputte 922: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
923: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 924: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 925: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
926: <p>
1.195 deraadt 927:
1.202 jason 928: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 929: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 930: Conference</a></strong>,
931: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 932: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
933: <ul>
1.216 jose 934: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 935: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 936: Angelos D. Keromytis,
937: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 938: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 939: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
940: </ul>
941: <p>
942:
1.201 deraadt 943: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 944: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 945: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
946: session.
947: <p>
948:
1.216 jose 949: <li><strong>
950: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
951: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 952: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
953: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
954: <p>
955:
1.216 jose 956: <li><strong>
957: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
958: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 959: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 960: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 961: <p>
962:
1.216 jose 963: <li><strong>
964: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
965: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 966: 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 967: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 968: <p>
969:
1.216 jose 970: <li><strong>
971: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
972: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 973: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
974: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 975: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
976: user groups.
977: <p>
978:
1.236 jose 979: <li><strong>
980: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 981: Group</a></strong>,
982: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 983: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
984: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
985: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
986: <p>
987:
1.216 jose 988: <li><strong>
989: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
990: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 991: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 992: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 993: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
994: <p>
995:
1.216 jose 996: <li><strong>
997: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
998: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 999: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1000: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1001: <p>
1.236 jose 1002: </ul>
1.185 miod 1003:
1.161 millert 1004: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1005:
1006: <ul>
1007: <li><strong>
1008: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1009: Congress</a></strong>,
1010: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1011: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1012: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1013: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1014: <p>
1.177 jason 1015:
1.216 jose 1016: <li><strong>
1017: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1018: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1019: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1020: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1021: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1022: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1023: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1024: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1025: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1026: <p>
1.178 pb 1027:
1.216 jose 1028: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1029: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1030: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1031: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1032: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1033: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1034: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1035: <p>
1036:
1.216 jose 1037: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1038: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1039: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1040: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1041: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1042: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1043: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1044: <p>
1045:
1046: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1047: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1048: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1049: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1050: Niels Provos presented his
1051: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1052: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1053: <p>
1.172 miod 1054:
1.216 jose 1055: <li><strong>
1056: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1057: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1058: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1059: <p>
1060:
1.216 jose 1061: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1062: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1063: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1064: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1065: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1066: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1067: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1068: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1069: <p>
1.168 miod 1070:
1.216 jose 1071: <li><strong>
1072: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1073: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1074: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1075: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1076: are available.
1.161 millert 1077: <p>
1078:
1.216 jose 1079: <li><strong>
1080: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1081: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1082: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1083: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1084: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1085: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1086: <p>
1087:
1.216 jose 1088: <li><strong>
1089: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1090: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1091: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1092: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1093: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1094: <p>
1.236 jose 1095: </ul>
1.164 millert 1096:
1.152 jakob 1097: <h3>2001</h3>
1098:
1.236 jose 1099: <ul>
1.216 jose 1100: <li><strong>
1101: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1102: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1103: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1104: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1105: <p>
1106:
1.216 jose 1107: <li><strong>
1108: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1109: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1110: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1111: <p>
1112:
1.158 deraadt 1113: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1114: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1115: 2001</a></strong>,
1116: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1117: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1118: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1119: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1120: <p>
1121:
1.216 jose 1122: <li><strong>
1123: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1124: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1125: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1126: <p>
1127:
1.201 deraadt 1128: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1129: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1130: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1131: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1132:
1.150 wvdputte 1133: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1134: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1135: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1136: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1137: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1138: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1139: <p>
1.137 aaron 1140:
1141: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1142: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1143: Conference</a></strong>,
1144: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1145: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1146: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1147: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1148: <p>
1149:
1150: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1151: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1152: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1153: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1154: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1155: <p>
1156:
1157: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1158: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1159: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1160: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1161: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1162: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1163: <p>
1164:
1165: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1166: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1167: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1168: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1169: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1170: <p>
1171:
1172: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1173: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1174: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1175: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1176: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1177: security community.
1178: <p>
1179:
1180: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1181: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1182: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1183: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1184: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1185: <p>
1186:
1187: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1188: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1189: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1190: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1191: <p>
1.236 jose 1192: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1193:
1.132 louis 1194: <h3>2000</h3>
1195:
1.236 jose 1196: <ul>
1.132 louis 1197: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1198: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1199: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1200: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1201: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1202: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1203: <p>
1204:
1205: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1206: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1207: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1208: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1209: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1210: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1211: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1212: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1213: <p>
1214:
1215: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1216: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1217: 2000</a></strong>,
1218: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1219: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1220: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1221: <p>
1.4 millert 1222:
1.132 louis 1223: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1224: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1225: Summit</a></strong>,
1226: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1227: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1228: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1229: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1230:
1231: <ul>
1.236 jose 1232: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1233: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1234: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1235: </ul>
1.4 millert 1236: <p>
1.132 louis 1237:
1.7 deraadt 1238: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1239: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1240: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1241: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1242: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1243: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1244: mind (drinks afterwards).
1245: <p>
1246:
1.216 jose 1247: <li><strong>
1248: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1249: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1250: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1251: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1252: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1253:
1.132 louis 1254: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1255: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1256: Revolution</a></strong>,
1257: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1258: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1259: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1260: <p>
1261:
1.132 louis 1262: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1263: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1264: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1265: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1266: <ul>
1.236 jose 1267: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1268: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1269: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1270: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1271: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1272: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1273: <p>
1.132 louis 1274:
1.10 provos 1275: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1276: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1277: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1278: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1279: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1280: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1281: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1282: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1283: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1284: <br>
1285: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1286: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1287: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1288:
1.132 louis 1289: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1290: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1291: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1292: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1293: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1294: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1295: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1296: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1297: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1298: and spoke about
1299: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1300: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1301: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1302: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1303: <p>
1.132 louis 1304:
1.6 deraadt 1305: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1306: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1307: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1308: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1309: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1310: <br>
1311: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1312: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1313: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1314: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1315:
1.216 jose 1316: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1317: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1318: Conference.</a></strong>,
1319: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1320: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1321: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1322: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1323: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1324: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1325: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1326: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1327: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1328: <ul>
1329:
1330: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1331: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1332: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1333: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1334: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1335:
1336: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1337: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1338: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1339: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1340: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1341:
1.132 louis 1342: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1343: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1344: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1345: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1346: <p>
1347:
1.132 louis 1348: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1349: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1350: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1351: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1352: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1353: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1354: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1355: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1356:
1.132 louis 1357: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1358: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1359: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1360: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1361: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1362: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1363: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1364: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1365: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1366:
1.17 deraadt 1367: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1368: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1369: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1370: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1371: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1372: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1373: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1374: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1375: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1376:
1.23 niklas 1377: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1378: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1379: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1380: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1381: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1382: efforts.
1383: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1384: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1385: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1386: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1387: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1388: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1389:
1.132 louis 1390: <li><strong>
1391: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1392: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1393: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1394: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1395: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1396: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1397: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1398: <p>
1.23 niklas 1399:
1.31 deraadt 1400: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1401: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1402: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1403: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1404: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1405: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1406: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1407: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1408: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1409: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1410:
1.201 deraadt 1411: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1412: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1413: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1414: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1415: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1416: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1417: <p>
1.236 jose 1418: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1419:
1.132 louis 1420: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1421:
1.236 jose 1422: <ul>
1.216 jose 1423: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1424: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1425: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1426: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1427: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1428: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1429: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1430: <p>
1431:
1.216 jose 1432: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1433: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1434: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1435: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1436: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1437: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1438: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1439: There were many other OpenBSD
1440: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1441: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1442:
1443: <ul>
1444: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1445: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1446: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1447: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1448: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1449: </ul>
1450: <p>
1451:
1452: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1453: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1454: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1455: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1456: <p>
1457:
1458: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1459: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1460: Software '99</a></strong>,
1461: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1462: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1463: <a
1.375 grunk 1464: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1465: <p>
1466:
1467: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1468: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1469: 1999</a></strong>,
1470: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1471: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1472: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1473: <p>
1474:
1.236 jose 1475: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1476: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1477: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1478: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1479: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1480: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1481: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1482: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1483: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1484: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1485: conference in Stockholm.
1486: <p>
1487:
1488: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1489: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1490: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1491: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1492: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1493: coordinated.
1494: <p>
1495:
1496: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1497: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1498: Security</a></strong>,
1499: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1500: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1501: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1502: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1503: significant security roles.
1504: <p>
1505:
1506: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1507: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1508: meeting</a></strong>,
1509: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1510: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1511: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1512: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1513: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1514: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1515: <p>
1.45 jason 1516:
1.132 louis 1517: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1518: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1519: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1520: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1521: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1522: <p>
1.132 louis 1523:
1.236 jose 1524: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1525: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1526: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1527: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1528: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1529: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1530: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1531: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1532: June.)
1.132 louis 1533: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1534: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1535: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1536:
1.375 grunk 1537: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1538: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1539: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1540: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1541: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1542: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1543: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1544: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1545: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1546: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1547: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1548: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1549: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1550: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1551: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1552: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1553: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1554: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1555: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1556: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1557: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1558: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1559: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1560: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1561: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1562: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1563: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1564: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1565:
1.51 deraadt 1566: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1567: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1568: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1569: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1570: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1571: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1572: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1573: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1574: <p>
1575:
1.53 jakob 1576: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1577: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1578: meeting</a></strong>,
1579: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1580: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1581: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1582: <p>
1583:
1.132 louis 1584: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1585: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1586: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1587: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1588: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1589: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1590: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1591: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1592: <p>
1.236 jose 1593: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1594:
1.132 louis 1595: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1596:
1.236 jose 1597: <ul>
1.132 louis 1598: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1599: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1600: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1601: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1602: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1603: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1604: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1605: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1606: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1607: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1608: <p>
1609:
1.236 jose 1610: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1611: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1612: Conference</a></strong>,
1613: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1614: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1615: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1616: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1617: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1618: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1619: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1620: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1621: <br>
1622: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1623: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1624: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1625: <p>
1626:
1.73 deraadt 1627: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1628: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1629: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1630: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1631: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1632: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1633: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1634: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1635: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1636:
1.236 jose 1637: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1638: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1639: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1640: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1641: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1642: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1643: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1644: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1645:
1.80 deraadt 1646: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1647: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1648: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1649: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1650: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1651: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1652: <p>
1653:
1.93 louis 1654: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1655: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1656: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1657: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1658: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1659: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1660: <p>
1661:
1.216 jose 1662: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1663: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1664: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1665: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1666: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1667: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1668: <p>
1669:
1.236 jose 1670: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1671: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1672: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1673: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1674: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1675: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1676: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1677: <br>
1678: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1679: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1680: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1681: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1682: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1683:
1.236 jose 1684: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1685: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1686: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1687: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1688: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1689: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1690: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1691: <p>
1692:
1.236 jose 1693: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1694: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1695: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1696: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1697: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1698: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1699: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1700: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1701: <br>
1702: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1703: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1704: <p>
1705:
1.105 wvdputte 1706: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1707: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1708: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1709: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1710: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1711: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1712: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1713: <br>
1.132 louis 1714: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1715: <p>
1.236 jose 1716: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1717:
1.132 louis 1718: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1719:
1.236 jose 1720: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1721: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1722: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1723: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1724: Niels held a
1725: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1726: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1727: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1728: <p>
1.132 louis 1729:
1.236 jose 1730: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1731: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1732: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1733: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1734: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1735: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1736:
1.236 jose 1737: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1738: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1739: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1740: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1741: <br>
1742: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1743: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1744: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1745: <p>
1746:
1.125 deraadt 1747: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1748: <a
1749: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1750: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1751: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1752: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1753: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1754:
1.1 deraadt 1755:
1756: <hr>
1.236 jose 1757: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt="OpenBSD"></a>
1758: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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