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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>
24:
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
1.448 aanriot 35: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
1.446 wvdputte 36: <p>
37:
1.454 ! henning 38: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
! 39: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
! 40: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
! 41: Henning Brauer will talk about OpenBGPD and OpenBGPD at DE-CIX.
! 42: <p>
! 43:
1.447 wvdputte 44: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
45: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
46: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
47: Please email <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> for information about
48: these small meetings.
49: <p>
50:
1.445 martin 51: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
52: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
53: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
54: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth will be present, run by the usual gang of suspects.
1.386 wvdputte 55: <p>
56:
1.446 wvdputte 57: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
58: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
59: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen<br>
60: Wim and Felix Kronlage will hold a talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
1.454 ! henning 61: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups. Henning Brauer will talk
! 62: about OpenBGPD.
1.446 wvdputte 63: <p>
64:
1.449 reyk 65: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
66: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
1.450 grunk 67: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
1.449 reyk 68: Reyk Flöter will talk about the latest wireless support in
69: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
1.450 grunk 70: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.<br>
71: <a href="mailto:peter@bgnett.no">Peter N. M. Hansteen</a>
1.452 grunk 72: will give a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove will present "Exploit
73: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin will give a
74: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
75: drivers for OpenBSD".
1.449 reyk 76: <p>
77:
1.446 wvdputte 78: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
79: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
1.448 aanriot 80: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
1.446 wvdputte 81: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
82: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
83: <p>
84:
1.450 grunk 85: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
86: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
87: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
1.451 grunk 88: Peter N. M. Hansteen will give a
89: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
90: PF tutorial</a>.
1.450 grunk 91: <p>
92:
1.446 wvdputte 93: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
94: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a></strong>,
95: To be announced, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
96: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
97: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
98: <p>
99:
100: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
101: <a href="http://2006.rencontresmondiales.org/home/?lang=en_GB">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
102: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
103: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1.450 grunk 104: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot and Alexandre Anriot.
1.446 wvdputte 105: <p>
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1.152 jakob 123: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.296 mcbride 125: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 126:
127: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 128:
1.445 martin 129: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
130: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
131: Berlin</a></strong>,
132: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
133: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
134: <p>
135:
1.435 matthieu 136: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
137: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
138: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
139: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
140: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 141: event.
1.444 grunk 142: The program included a
143: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 144: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
145: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 146: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
147: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 148: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 149: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 150: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 151: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 152: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 153: <p>
1.435 matthieu 154: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
155: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
156: <p>
157:
1.434 bernd 158: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
159: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
160: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
161: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
162: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
163: <p>
164:
1.441 niallo 165: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
166: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
167: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
168: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
169: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
170: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
171: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
172: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
173: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
174: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
175: scripts.
176: <p>
177:
1.424 mbalmer 178: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
179: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
180: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 181: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
182: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
183: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 184: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 185: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 186: talks, including
187: <ul>
188: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
189: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
190: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
191: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
192: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
193: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 194: <p>
195:
196: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
197: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
198: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 199: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 200: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
201: <p>
202:
1.418 djm 203: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
204: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
205: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
206: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
207: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
208: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
209: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 210: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
211: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
212: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 213: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
214: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
215: <p>
216:
1.415 aanriot 217: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
218: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
219: 2005</a></strong>,
220: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
221: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
222: help of Thierry Thomas.
223: <p>
224:
1.420 deraadt 225: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
226: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
227: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
228: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
229: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
230: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
231: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
232: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
233: registration was mandatory.<br>
234: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 235: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 236: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
237: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
238: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 239: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 240: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
241: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
242: mechanism.
243: <p>
244:
1.414 bernd 245: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
246: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
247: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
248: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
249: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
250: <p>
251:
252: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
253: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
254: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
255: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
256: <p>
257:
1.410 wvdputte 258: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
259: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
260: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 261: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
262: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 263: <p>
264:
265: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
266: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
267: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
268: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 269: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 270: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
271: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
272: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
273: installed on your computer.
274: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 275: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 276: <p>
277:
1.404 wvdputte 278: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
279: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 280: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 281: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
282: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 283: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 284: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
285: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
286: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
287: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
288: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
289: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
290: <p>
291:
292: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
293: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
294: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
295: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
296: <p>
297:
1.403 henning 298: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
299: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 300: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 301: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
302: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
303: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
304: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
305: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
306: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
307: <p>
308:
1.388 tom 309: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
310: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
311: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 312: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 313: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
314: <p>
315:
1.385 mickey 316: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 317: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 318: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 319: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
320: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 321: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
322: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 323: and an excellent
324: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
325: If you want to see what happened previously, check
326: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
327: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
328: <p>
329:
1.382 pedro 330: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
331: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.org/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 332: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 333: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
334: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
335: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 336: <p>
337:
1.378 aanriot 338: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
339: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 340: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 341: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
342: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
343: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
344: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 345: <p>
346:
1.375 grunk 347: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
348: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 349: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 350: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
351: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
352: <p>
353:
1.374 grunk 354: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
355: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 356: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 357: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
358: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
359: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
360: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
361: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
362: <p>
363:
1.371 deraadt 364: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
365: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 366: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 367: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
368: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
369: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
370: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
371: He demonstrated how companies can easily
372: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
373: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
374: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
375: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
376: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
377: <p>
378:
1.366 martin 379: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
380: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
381: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
382: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
383: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
384: CDs and shirts.
385: <p>
386:
1.365 mcbride 387: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
388: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
389: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
390: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
391: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
392: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
393: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
394: <br>
395: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
396: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
397: <p>
398:
1.362 reyk 399: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
400: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
401: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
402: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
403: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
404: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
405: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
406: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
407: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
408: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
409: <p>
410:
1.358 mcbride 411: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
412: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
413: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
414: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
415: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
416: <p>
417:
1.357 henning 418: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
419: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
420: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
421: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
422: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
423: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
424: <p>
425:
1.384 tom 426: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 427: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 428: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 429: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
430: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
431: packages work in front of about 30 people.
432: <p>
433:
1.353 henning 434: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
435: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 436: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 437: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
438: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
439: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
440: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 441: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 442: <p>
443:
1.352 henning 444: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
445: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 446: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 447: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
448: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
449: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
450: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
451: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
452: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
453: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
454: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
455: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
456: available if you couldn't make it there.
457: <p>
458:
1.350 marius 459: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
460:
461: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 462: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 463: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
464: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
465: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
466: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
467: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 468: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 469: <p>
470:
1.345 henning 471: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
472: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 473: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 474: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
475: <p>
476:
1.344 martin 477: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
478: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 479: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 480: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
481: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
482: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
483: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
484: (in French) are available.
485: <p>
486:
1.337 deraadt 487: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
488: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 489: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 490: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
491: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 492: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 493: source firewalls.
494: <p>
495:
1.317 henning 496: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
497: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
498: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 499: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 500: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 501: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 502: <p>
503:
1.312 deraadt 504: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
505: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
506: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 507: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
508: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 509: <p>
510:
1.319 saad 511: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
512: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
513: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
514: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
515: <p>
516:
1.310 mickey 517: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 518: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 519: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 520: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 521: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
522: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 523: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 524: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 525: <p>
1.312 deraadt 526:
1.308 deraadt 527: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
528: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
529: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
530: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 531: talks. Topics included
532: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 533: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
534: OpenBGPD, and pf.
535: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 536: <p>
537:
1.304 saad 538: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
539: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
540: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
541: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
542: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 543: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 544: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 545: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
546: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 547: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 548: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
549: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
550: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 551: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 552: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
553: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
554: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
555: <p>
1.301 saad 556: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
557: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
558: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
559: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
560: <p>
561: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
562: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
563: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
564: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
565: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
566: <p>
1.293 saad 567: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
568: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
569: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
570: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
571: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
572: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 573: french translation team.<br>
574: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
575: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
576: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
577: available.<br>
578: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 579: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
580: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
581: <p>
1.296 mcbride 582: </ul>
1.293 saad 583:
1.296 mcbride 584: <h3>2004</h3>
585:
586: <ul>
1.287 henning 587: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
588: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 589: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 590: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
591: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
592: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 593: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 594: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
595: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
596: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
597: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
598: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
599: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 600: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 601: driver.
602: <p>
1.248 deraadt 603:
1.286 kevlo 604: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 605: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 606: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
607: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
608: <p>
609:
1.285 deraadt 610: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
611: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
612: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
613: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
614: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
615: <p>
616:
1.283 saad 617: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
618: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
619: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
620: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
621: meeting of the
622: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
623: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 624: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 625: <p>
626:
1.282 henning 627: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
628: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
629: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
630: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
631: two days, on bgpd
632: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
633: ntpd
634: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
635: and signal handlers
636: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
637: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
638: <p>
639:
1.275 deraadt 640: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
641: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
642: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
643: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
644: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
645: Room B-02 of the
646: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
647: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
648: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
649: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
650: The talk was also given the following day at the
651: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
652: <p>
653:
1.271 henning 654: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
655: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
656: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 657: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
658: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 659: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 660: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 661: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 662: <p>
663:
664: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
665: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
666: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 667: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
668: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 669: <p>
670:
1.276 deraadt 671: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 672: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
673: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
674: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
675: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
676: <p>
677:
678: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 679: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
680: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 681: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 682: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 683: <p>
684:
685: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
686: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
687: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
688: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
689: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
690: <p>
691:
1.268 krw 692: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
693: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
694: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
695: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
696: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
697: <p>
698:
1.375 grunk 699: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 700: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
701: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
702: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
703: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
704: <p>
705:
706: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
707: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 708: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 709: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
710: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
711: <p>
712:
1.265 wvdputte 713: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
714: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 715: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 716: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
717: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
718: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
719: event."
720: <br>
721: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
722: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
723: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
724: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
725: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
726: <br>
727: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
728: <p>
729:
1.262 henning 730: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
731: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 732: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 733: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
734: Henning's slides from his talks about
735: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
736: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
737: are available.
738: <p>
739:
1.261 deraadt 740: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 741: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 742: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
743: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
744: newly extended version of the
745: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
746: For more information, see this
747: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
748: ComputerWorld article</a>.
749: <p>
750:
751:
1.257 saad 752: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
753: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 754: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 755: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
756: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
757: <p>
758:
759: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
760: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 761: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 762: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
763: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
764: <p>
765:
1.256 mickey 766: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 767: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 768: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
769: session.
770: <p>
771:
1.254 xsa 772: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 773: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 774: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
775: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
776: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
777: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
778: a basic talk about pf.
779: <p>
780:
1.248 deraadt 781: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 782: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 783: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
784: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 785: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
786: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
787: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 788: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
789: <p>
790:
1.247 canacar 791: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
792: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
793: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
794: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
795: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
796: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
797: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
798: projects were discussed.<br>
799: You can view the
1.281 canacar 800: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 801: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 802: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 803: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
804: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
805: <p>
806:
1.242 henning 807: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
808: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
809: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 810: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
811: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
812: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
813: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
814: and systrace
1.263 saad 815: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 816: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
817: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
818: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 819: <p>
820:
1.240 espie 821: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
822: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
823: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
824: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
825: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
826: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
827: <p>
828:
829: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
830: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
831: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 832: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 833: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
834: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
835: <p>
836: </ul>
837:
1.188 henning 838: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 839:
840: <ul>
1.232 jose 841: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
842: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
843: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
844: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
845: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 846: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 847: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 848: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 849: <p>
1.232 jose 850:
1.228 jose 851: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 852: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 853: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
854: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 855: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
856: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 857: with OpenBSD PF.
858: <p>
859:
860: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
861: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
862: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
863: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
864: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 865: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
866: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
867: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
868: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 869: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 870: slides in PDF format </a>
871: (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 872: <p>
873:
1.227 jose 874: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
875: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
876: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
877: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
878: <p>
879:
880: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
881: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 882: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 883: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 884: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 885: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
886: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 887: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 888: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 889: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 890: in Internet worm defenses.
891: <p>
892:
1.224 miod 893: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
894: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
895: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
896: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
897: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
898: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
899: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
900: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
901: OpenBSD.
902: <p>
903:
904: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
905: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
906: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
907: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
908: <p>
909:
910: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
911: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
912: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
913: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
914: <p>
915:
1.219 jose 916: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
917: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
918: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 919: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 920: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
921: <p>
922:
1.218 jose 923: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
924: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
925: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 926: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 927: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
928: <p>
929:
1.214 henning 930: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
931: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 932: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 933: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
934: <p>
935:
1.213 jose 936: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
937: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 938: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 939: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 940: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
941: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
942: <p>
943:
1.211 jose 944: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
945: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 946: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 947: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
948: <p>
949:
950: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
951: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 952: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 953: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 954: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
955: <p>
956:
1.209 wvdputte 957: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
958: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 959: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 960: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
961: <p>
1.195 deraadt 962:
1.202 jason 963: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 964: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 965: Conference</a></strong>,
966: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 967: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
968: <ul>
1.216 jose 969: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 970: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 971: Angelos D. Keromytis,
972: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 973: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 974: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
975: </ul>
976: <p>
977:
1.201 deraadt 978: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 979: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 980: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
981: session.
982: <p>
983:
1.216 jose 984: <li><strong>
985: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
986: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 987: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
988: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
989: <p>
990:
1.216 jose 991: <li><strong>
992: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
993: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 994: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 995: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 996: <p>
997:
1.216 jose 998: <li><strong>
999: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1000: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1001: 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 1002: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1003: <p>
1004:
1.216 jose 1005: <li><strong>
1006: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1007: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1008: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1009: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1010: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1011: user groups.
1012: <p>
1013:
1.236 jose 1014: <li><strong>
1015: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1016: Group</a></strong>,
1017: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1018: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1019: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1020: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1021: <p>
1022:
1.216 jose 1023: <li><strong>
1024: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1025: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1026: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1027: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1028: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1029: <p>
1030:
1.216 jose 1031: <li><strong>
1032: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1033: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1034: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1035: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1036: <p>
1.236 jose 1037: </ul>
1.185 miod 1038:
1.161 millert 1039: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1040:
1041: <ul>
1042: <li><strong>
1043: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1044: Congress</a></strong>,
1045: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1046: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1047: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1048: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1049: <p>
1.177 jason 1050:
1.216 jose 1051: <li><strong>
1052: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1053: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1054: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1055: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1056: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1057: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1058: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1059: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1060: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1061: <p>
1.178 pb 1062:
1.216 jose 1063: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1064: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1065: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1066: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1067: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1068: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1069: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1070: <p>
1071:
1.216 jose 1072: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1073: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1074: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1075: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1076: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1077: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1078: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1079: <p>
1080:
1081: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1082: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1083: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1084: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1085: Niels Provos presented his
1086: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1087: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1088: <p>
1.172 miod 1089:
1.216 jose 1090: <li><strong>
1091: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1092: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1093: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1094: <p>
1095:
1.216 jose 1096: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1097: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1098: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1099: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1100: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1101: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1102: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1103: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1104: <p>
1.168 miod 1105:
1.216 jose 1106: <li><strong>
1107: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1108: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1109: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1110: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1111: are available.
1.161 millert 1112: <p>
1113:
1.216 jose 1114: <li><strong>
1115: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1116: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1117: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1118: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1119: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1120: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1121: <p>
1122:
1.216 jose 1123: <li><strong>
1124: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1125: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1126: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1127: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1128: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1129: <p>
1.236 jose 1130: </ul>
1.164 millert 1131:
1.152 jakob 1132: <h3>2001</h3>
1133:
1.236 jose 1134: <ul>
1.216 jose 1135: <li><strong>
1136: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1137: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1138: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1139: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1140: <p>
1141:
1.216 jose 1142: <li><strong>
1143: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1144: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1145: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1146: <p>
1147:
1.158 deraadt 1148: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1149: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1150: 2001</a></strong>,
1151: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1152: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1153: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1154: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1155: <p>
1156:
1.216 jose 1157: <li><strong>
1158: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1159: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1160: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1161: <p>
1162:
1.201 deraadt 1163: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1164: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1165: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1166: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1167:
1.150 wvdputte 1168: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1169: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1170: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1171: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1172: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1173: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1174: <p>
1.137 aaron 1175:
1176: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1177: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1178: Conference</a></strong>,
1179: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1180: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1181: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1182: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1183: <p>
1184:
1185: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1186: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1187: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1188: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1189: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1190: <p>
1191:
1192: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1193: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1194: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1195: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1196: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1197: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1198: <p>
1199:
1200: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1201: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1202: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1203: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1204: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1205: <p>
1206:
1207: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1208: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1209: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1210: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1211: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1212: security community.
1213: <p>
1214:
1215: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1216: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1217: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1218: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1219: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1220: <p>
1221:
1222: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1223: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1224: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1225: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1226: <p>
1.236 jose 1227: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1228:
1.132 louis 1229: <h3>2000</h3>
1230:
1.236 jose 1231: <ul>
1.132 louis 1232: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1233: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1234: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1235: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1236: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1237: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1238: <p>
1239:
1240: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1241: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1242: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1243: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1244: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1245: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1246: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1247: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1248: <p>
1249:
1250: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1251: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1252: 2000</a></strong>,
1253: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1254: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1255: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1256: <p>
1.4 millert 1257:
1.132 louis 1258: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1259: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1260: Summit</a></strong>,
1261: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1262: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1263: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1264: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1265:
1266: <ul>
1.236 jose 1267: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1268: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1269: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1270: </ul>
1.4 millert 1271: <p>
1.132 louis 1272:
1.7 deraadt 1273: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1274: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1275: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1276: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1277: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1278: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1279: mind (drinks afterwards).
1280: <p>
1281:
1.216 jose 1282: <li><strong>
1283: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1284: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1285: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1286: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1287: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1288:
1.132 louis 1289: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1290: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1291: Revolution</a></strong>,
1292: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1293: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1294: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1295: <p>
1296:
1.132 louis 1297: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1298: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1299: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1300: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1301: <ul>
1.236 jose 1302: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1303: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1304: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1305: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1306: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1307: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1308: <p>
1.132 louis 1309:
1.10 provos 1310: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1311: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1312: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1313: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1314: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1315: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1316: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1317: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1318: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1319: <br>
1320: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1321: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1322: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1323:
1.132 louis 1324: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1325: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1326: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1327: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1328: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1329: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1330: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1331: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1332: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1333: and spoke about
1334: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1335: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1336: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1337: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1338: <p>
1.132 louis 1339:
1.6 deraadt 1340: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1341: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1342: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1343: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1344: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1345: <br>
1346: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1347: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1348: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1349: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1350:
1.216 jose 1351: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1352: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1353: Conference.</a></strong>,
1354: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1355: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1356: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1357: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1358: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1359: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1360: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1361: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1362: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1363: <ul>
1364:
1365: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1366: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1367: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1368: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1369: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1370:
1371: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1372: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1373: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1374: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1375: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1376:
1.132 louis 1377: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1378: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1379: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1380: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1381: <p>
1382:
1.132 louis 1383: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1384: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1385: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1386: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1387: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1388: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1389: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1390: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1391:
1.132 louis 1392: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1393: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1394: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1395: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1396: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1397: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1398: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1399: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1400: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1401:
1.17 deraadt 1402: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1403: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1404: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1405: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1406: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1407: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1408: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1409: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1410: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1411:
1.23 niklas 1412: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1413: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1414: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1415: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1416: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1417: efforts.
1418: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1419: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1420: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1421: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1422: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1423: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1424:
1.132 louis 1425: <li><strong>
1426: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1427: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1428: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1429: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1430: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1431: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1432: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1433: <p>
1.23 niklas 1434:
1.31 deraadt 1435: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1436: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1437: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1438: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1439: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1440: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1441: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1442: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1443: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1444: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1445:
1.201 deraadt 1446: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1447: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1448: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1449: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1450: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1451: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1452: <p>
1.236 jose 1453: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1454:
1.132 louis 1455: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1456:
1.236 jose 1457: <ul>
1.216 jose 1458: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1459: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1460: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1461: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1462: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1463: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1464: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1465: <p>
1466:
1.216 jose 1467: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1468: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1469: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1470: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1471: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1472: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1473: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1474: There were many other OpenBSD
1475: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1476: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1477:
1478: <ul>
1479: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1480: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1481: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1482: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1483: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1484: </ul>
1485: <p>
1486:
1487: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1488: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1489: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1490: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1491: <p>
1492:
1493: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1494: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1495: Software '99</a></strong>,
1496: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1497: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1498: <a
1.375 grunk 1499: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1500: <p>
1501:
1502: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1503: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1504: 1999</a></strong>,
1505: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1506: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1507: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1508: <p>
1509:
1.236 jose 1510: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1511: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1512: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1513: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1514: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1515: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1516: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1517: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1518: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1519: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1520: conference in Stockholm.
1521: <p>
1522:
1523: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1524: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1525: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1526: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1527: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1528: coordinated.
1529: <p>
1530:
1531: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1532: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1533: Security</a></strong>,
1534: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1535: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1536: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1537: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1538: significant security roles.
1539: <p>
1540:
1541: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1542: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1543: meeting</a></strong>,
1544: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1545: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1546: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1547: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1548: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1549: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1550: <p>
1.45 jason 1551:
1.132 louis 1552: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1553: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1554: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1555: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1556: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1557: <p>
1.132 louis 1558:
1.236 jose 1559: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1560: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1561: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1562: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1563: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1564: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1565: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1566: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1567: June.)
1.132 louis 1568: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1569: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1570: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1571:
1.375 grunk 1572: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1573: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1574: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1575: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1576: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1577: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1578: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1579: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1580: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1581: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1582: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1583: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1584: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1585: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1586: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1587: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1588: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1589: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1590: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1591: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1592: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1593: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1594: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1595: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1596: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1597: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1598: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1599: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1600:
1.51 deraadt 1601: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1602: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1603: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1604: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1605: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1606: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1607: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1608: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1609: <p>
1610:
1.53 jakob 1611: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1612: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1613: meeting</a></strong>,
1614: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1615: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1616: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1617: <p>
1618:
1.132 louis 1619: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1620: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1621: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1622: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1623: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1624: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1625: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1626: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1627: <p>
1.236 jose 1628: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1629:
1.132 louis 1630: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1631:
1.236 jose 1632: <ul>
1.132 louis 1633: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1634: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1635: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1636: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1637: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1638: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1639: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1640: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1641: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1642: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1643: <p>
1644:
1.236 jose 1645: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1646: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1647: Conference</a></strong>,
1648: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1649: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1650: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1651: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1652: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1653: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1654: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1655: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1656: <br>
1657: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1658: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1659: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1660: <p>
1661:
1.73 deraadt 1662: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1663: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1664: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1665: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1666: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1667: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1668: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1669: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1670: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1671:
1.236 jose 1672: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1673: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1674: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1675: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1676: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1677: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1678: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1679: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1680:
1.80 deraadt 1681: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1682: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1683: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1684: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1685: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1686: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1687: <p>
1688:
1.93 louis 1689: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1690: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1691: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1692: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1693: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1694: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1695: <p>
1696:
1.216 jose 1697: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1698: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1699: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1700: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1701: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1702: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1703: <p>
1704:
1.236 jose 1705: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1706: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1707: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1708: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1709: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1710: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1711: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1712: <br>
1713: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1714: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1715: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1716: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1717: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1718:
1.236 jose 1719: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1720: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1721: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1722: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1723: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1724: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1725: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1726: <p>
1727:
1.236 jose 1728: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1729: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1730: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1731: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1732: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1733: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1734: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1735: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1736: <br>
1737: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1738: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1739: <p>
1740:
1.105 wvdputte 1741: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1742: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1743: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1744: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1745: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1746: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1747: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1748: <br>
1.132 louis 1749: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1750: <p>
1.236 jose 1751: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1752:
1.132 louis 1753: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1754:
1.236 jose 1755: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1756: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1757: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1758: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1759: Niels held a
1760: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1761: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1762: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1763: <p>
1.132 louis 1764:
1.236 jose 1765: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1766: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1767: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1768: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1769: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1770: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1771:
1.236 jose 1772: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1773: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1774: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1775: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1776: <br>
1777: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1778: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1779: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1780: <p>
1781:
1.125 deraadt 1782: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1783: <a
1784: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1785: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1786: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1787: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1788: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1789:
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1793: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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